Ofcourse he was stupid for standing with Le, and im sure he could have submitted him, but that wouldnt have been near as entertaining for the fans.

One word, Balls!

Its one thing if you disgrace yourself, like Gomi and all the guys Rainrider mentioned (and alot more he didnt, like BJ and Babalu recently. But after the fact when it all comes out and you make your apology etc, as they always do, your supposed to rise above that.

Guys like Pyle, or dirty bob shreiber who will do anything they can get away with without costing them the fight. Every fighter does it, but its TO AN EXTENT, like holding the cage to avoid a take down. “dont hold the fence!” “duh, oh ya i forgot..” but that small infraction prevented a takedown and it could change the outcome of the entire fight. Now when you get to the extent of eye poking you could jeopardise the other fighters career and his vision for life! when he bit wes sims that was just ridiculous man.. pathetic.

If you have to use tactics like that, your a coward, your a btch and you have no place in mma. str8 goods man.

You can’t. There is no possible way he could by someone “by accident” during the fight. Its a premeditated action.

Had the incident with Brian Olsen been the first time Kyle had been in the new for this sort of thing, then I’d possibly say sure, give him another shot. But it wasnt the first time. he has a history of this sort of junk

Mike has been fighting for many years and entertaining people, why no love for him? Everybody should deserve a fresh start once in a while. He was already punished for what he’d done (>Kyle was reinstated by the athletic commission)and he’s freaking talented MMA fighter with the potential to be a champ. All his evil behaviors were part of professional MMA fights and he never attacks anybody in his private life like some pros do.

Questionable fight tactic”s”? His record shows that the only time he got DQ’d was the fight with Brian Olsen and everything else was overlooked by the referee, the judges, and the athletic commision. You should not blame him for something that was officially found innocent. What he did to Olsen was inexcusable, but we’re all humans, everybody makes mistakes sometimes. Why don’t he give him a break after laying him off for 2 years?

Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto, Kazuo Misaki, Enson Inoue, Takanori Gomi. Those 4 Japanese MMA fighters did exactly the same thing as MAK did. They kept pounding their opponent after the stoppage, pushed off the referee and continued to punish the guy. What did they receive for their cruelty? Nothing but hero-status.

Do you know how many times Frank Shamrock threw illigal blows in his career? Almost as many times as his fights (I have a full list of the details in case you ask me). How about BJ Penn, Ricardo Almeida, Chris Brennan, Manny Gambryan, and 1000 others who like to hold the submission after scoring a tapout? They all look criminals to my eyes.

rainrider (long time ROM, first time posting here, howdy)