Early end to round may have cost Falcao submission victory
A lot can happen in six seconds. In UFC middleweight Maiquel Falcao’s case, six seconds was enough to take away…
A lot can happen in six seconds.
In UFC middleweight Maiquel Falcao’s case, six seconds was enough to take away a potential award of $80,000.
In a completely overlooked and unacknowledged mistake by announcers Mike Goldberg, Joe Rogan, or anyone else post-fight, the horn for the first round of Falcao’s fight against Gerald Harris went off six seconds early.
In most fights, this would be considered a sloppy oversight. How the round ended makes this a bit more than that.
With 15 seconds to go in the round, Falcao secured Harris in a rear naked choke and had it clamped on tight. While it looked like Harris came close to tapping, he held on but had that been applied for another six seconds, the fight likely would have been over.