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24th July 2018
03:16pm BST

A grounded fighter is defined as: Any part of the body, other than a single hand and soles of the feet touching the fighting area floor. To be grounded, both hands palm/fist down, and/or any other body part must be touching the fighting area floor. A single knee, arm, makes the fighter grounded without having to have any other body part in touch with the fighting area floor. At this time, kicks or knees to the head will not be allowed.Herb Dean ruled it as a No Contest. This rubbed a lot of people the wrong way who were calling for a Poirier win via disqualification. Dean's justification was that he deemed the fouls to be accidental. https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/863572200485523457
"Why did I (throw those knees)? Oh man, that's so silly of a question only because I would have had to been thinking clearly. If I was thinking clearly, I wouldn't be good at fighting."Alvarez explained why he finds questions such as these silly. However, he broke it down in a very informative way free of any patronising tone.
"The funniest thing's when a commentator says to a fighter, 'What were you thinking here?' I find that to be a funny question because sometimes the fighter actually answers it like they're a lot smarter than they are.'Oh, I seen him go left, so I went here.' As if they are a lot smarter than they really are." "The truth is, almost everything we do inside of a cage is done instinctual. There is no thought involved, no thought pattern, no anything. It's an instinct, you do it and I did it and it is what it is. I'm sorry for what happened, but I'm just acting instinctual in there. I'm just fighting, I'm trying to survive."Refreshing, insightful, honest. That's pretty much par for the course for Alvarez.
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