https://twitter.com/Jolassanda/status/860963788836810753
Because the martial arts are mixed, there are hundreds of unique ways for an MMA fight to end. Submissions alone are endlessly varied, from blood chokes to joint attacks to face wrenching moves that will make someone tap just from the pain caused by the maneuver. Remember when Demian Maia made Rick Story’s nose shoot blood from a crank?
It’s rare, however, when a fight ends via running away. But, that’s what happened at UCMMA 51, when a fighter took a stiff punch to the face then decided that it was in his best interests to employ the Kalib Starnes running away defense until it ended the fight.
(Don’t listen to this with the volume up)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTK7lV0U764
According to Jolassanda, whose Twitter highlights give us some of the best and weirdest from the Euro scene every weekend, this fight ended in the first round, which tells us that the battle between the man in the ill-fitting shorts and the exasperated opponent tasked with chasing him lasted about 15 seconds.
It always takes a brave person to walk into the cage. Brave, and a slight percentage of crazy, but going through the training, the weigh-ins, then ending it all via sprint across the cage seems like the worst possible way to go out.
