We’ve all heard the old saw before that “cheaters never win”. But guess what – in the cruel world of MMA, that isn’t the case. In fact, the opposite is true – cheaters almost ALWAYS win.
On a recent Fight Companion episode of his widely popular podcast, UFC commentator Joe Rogan wondered how fighters on the receiving end of illegal blows in MMA ended up performing the rest of the way in that fight. Well, we did a quick crunching of the numbers for all 2016 UFC events, and the answer is: “not very well”.
By scanning through Sherdog’s play-by-play for all 2016 UFC events, we totaled all the infractions and how the aggrieved party ended up doing that fight.