“Forfeit the game before somebody else takes you out of the frame and puts your name to shame, cover up your face, you can’t run the race, the pace is too fast, you just won’t last.” — Linkin Park, “Points of Authority”
In a past FF-Files piece titled “Point of Clarification,” we reviewed a few unusual results that took place in recent memory that needed a bit more description than TKO (Detached Finger) or TKO (Retirement) could provide. As we were soon reminded during that brief dive into the oddities of the sport, the Authority in Mixed Martial Arts since 1997 has quite a database full of these anomalies, mysteries and miracles.