Former UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen had a teammate that after took successful in any respect prices to an insanely excessive stage.
With a UFC Vegas 89 flyweight bout ending in a disqualification after Igor Severino bit Andre Lima final week, biting was contemporary on Sonnen’s thoughts. Throughout his response to Severino’s actions, Sonnen advised a narrative a few teammate that after bit himself in a wrestling match and blamed it on his opponent.
“I’ve seen a variety of tooth marks within the sport of wrestling. You can also not chunk any person in wrestling. As a matter of reality, should you declare a man bit you, together with if the referee would not see it, if there are bit marks the referee will disqualify that man instantly. It has change into somewhat little bit of an issue as a result of a chunk after I say it, and I feel when your ears hear it, is outlined particularly to any person who meant to chunk you,” Sonnen mentioned on his YouTube channel.
“In wrestling it is not at all times that case. We now have one thing referred to as cross-face in wrestling. We now have a variety of issues in wrestling the place you’d convey your arm, it might go proper throughout the man’s face, which implies you’d be taking your arm into the man’s mouth,” Sonnen continued. “And should you proceed to push and his tooth are uncovered it will present you these chunk marks even when he by no means meant to do it and extra importantly would not clamp down. This bought examined in wrestling a variety of instances the place a child would rise up and say, ‘he bit me.’ You’d see the mark. There’d be blood. The referee who did not even see it might cease the match and disqualify the child.”
Realizing the foundations and that you just’re disqualified for biting, somebody may reap the benefits of the state of affairs. Sonnen had a teammate do exactly that.
“I had a man. My very own teammate bought put in a precarious place and bit himself, jumped as much as his ft and tells the ref, ‘He bit me.’ The ref says, ‘what?’ He exhibits him the marks, which is what rule says it’s important to do, and the referee immediately disqualified the opposite man,” Sonnen defined. “My buddy bit himself, advised the referee that it was the opposite man, confirmed him the marks, which is what the rule e book says.”
Sonnen did not reveal the identification of his teammate.
