Former UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen had a teammate that when took successful in any respect prices to an insanely excessive degree.
With a UFC Vegas 89 flyweight bout ending in a disqualification after Igor Severino bit Andre Lima final week, biting was recent on Sonnen’s thoughts. Throughout his response to Severino’s actions, Sonnen advised a narrative a couple of teammate that when bit himself in a wrestling match and blamed it on his opponent.
“I’ve seen a whole lot of tooth marks within the sport of wrestling. You can also not chunk any individual in wrestling. As a matter of truth, for those who declare a man bit you, together with if the referee does not see it, if there are bit marks the referee will disqualify that man immediately. It has turn out to be slightly little bit of an issue as a result of a chunk after I say it, and I believe when your ears hear it, is outlined particularly to any individual who supposed to chunk you,” Sonnen mentioned on his YouTube channel.
“In wrestling it isn’t all the time that case. We’ve one thing referred to as cross-face in wrestling. We’ve a variety of issues in wrestling the place you’d carry your arm, it could go proper throughout the man’s face, which suggests you’d be taking your arm into the man’s mouth,” Sonnen continued. “And for those who proceed to push and his tooth are uncovered it may present you these chunk marks even when he by no means meant to do it and extra importantly does not clamp down. This acquired 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 could 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 scenario. Sonnen had a teammate just do that.
“I had a man. My very own teammate acquired 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.
