Pretty soon we’re going to have enough examples of fighters refusing to put their hands up only to be viciously knocked out to make an entire top ten list out of this strange phenomena. Fighters, the only person that has Nick Diaz spliced into their DNA is Nick Diaz. Dropping your hands and intentionally taking punches to the face is just not going to work for 99.99% of fighters in MMA. Actually, for the sake of entertainment and ridiculous animated .gifs, never put your hands up in a fight. That whole ‘defend yourself at all times’ thing doesn’t apply to you. Feel free to endure a blitzkrieg of punches so that we can have an endless supply of readily available articles to publish on MiddleEasy.
Combat Challenge Matty Batty instructs the world that you should never bring a face to a fist fight. If you just so happen to have a face at a fist fight, make sure that your fists are protecting it — otherwise you may end up like this…
