Playing possum in fighting and life
Joe Rogan: “If you saw it in a movie, you would go ‘This is bull$@!^.'”
“If you saw it in a movie, you would go ‘This is bull$@!^.'”
-Joe Rogan
Playing possum, formally known as apparent death, is an adaptive behavior in which an animal takes on the appearance of being dead, as a defense mechanism. It occurs in a wide range of animals, including wasps, crickets, spiders, snakes, sharks, fish, hens, mice, gerbils, guinea pigs, rabbits, pigs, deer, and possums.
In this amazing footage, a hyena drives a leopard away from a unmoving, and apparently dead impala. The hyena is about to have lunch, and then …
As the list above indicates, playing possum is in our DNA, and humans can do it, too.
https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/639489404407578624
UFC president Dana White and color commentator Joe Rogan explain what happened.
The fight took place at The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback Finale on November 11, 2006. Smith did actually sustain a brutal liver shot, so this is not the complete possum play that is appears to be.
After landing the knockout shot on Pete Sell, Smith then collapsed to the floor. He had two more fights in the UFC, but neither was a win. His last fight was a win for the vacant WCFC Middleweight Championship in 2013
Pete “Drago” Sell went on to go 1-3 in the UFC. Sell then went 2-1 in The American Idol of MMA” Ring of Combat.
You know the chances of that happening are insane, said Sell to MMAjunkie. You can look at that in two different ways. Imagine I hit him with the body shot and I dropped him. Maybe that leads to a title shot or a fight with other people that are close to a title shot – maybe if I wasn’t such a cowboy and didn’t go right after the guy and played it safer. But man, in hindsight everything is real easy to see after the fact.
