{"id":84889,"date":"2025-08-21T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84889\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:02:09","slug":"nothing-wrong-with-those-stand-ups-in-chimaev-vs-du-plessis-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84889\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nothing wrong with those stand-ups\u2019 in Chimaev vs. du Plessis fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Goddard was in the right when he stood Khamzat Chimaev and Dricus du Plessis up during their middleweight title fight at UFC 319 last week.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to fellow veteran UFC referee Herb Dean, who spoke to Helen Yee about the fight and the decision to stand it up despite Chimaev having du Plessis trapped in the crucifix position.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there is anything wrong with his stand ups,\u201d Dean said. \u201cKhamzat dominated the five rounds, and this is a ongoing conversation that everyone in the stakeholders and everyone in the sport has. What do we want this sport to look like? Do we want people to achieve a a dominant position, which if you\u2019re not using it to beat your opponent, could almost be looked at as a hiding place, as a place to burn time?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m never gonna accuse Khamzat of hiding because the man\u2019s a savage. But if you get a position like — we can break that one down — the crucifix, chest to chest position, not a lot of height. Very difficult to get to a place where you can punch your opponent. Sometimes he\u2019s able to get elbows \u2026 It takes a risk to make some space, to posture to where you\u2019re gonna be able to maybe finish the fight. And I think that\u2019s what we want our sport to look like. So I\u2019m okay with those stand ups that Mark Goddard did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the bout, there were complaints on both sides. Some \u2014 including DDP\u2019s coach<\/a> \u2014 felt like Goddard should have stood the fight up more. Some suggested he was blatantly trying to help du Plessis win by freeing him from those rough positions. Regardless of how you feel about his performance, the rules certainly gave him ample leeway to do what he did.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rules say the referee shall either stand up or break the fighters when neither fighter is able to or fails to demonstrate real, significant, and or sustained effort to advance towards finishing the fight by any method,\u201d Magraken said in a social media video. \u201cSimply maintaining what may be perceived as a superior position will not be considered effort to advance towards finishing the fight nor grounds for a guaranteed opportunity to maintain that position.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this is pretty black and white: just because you\u2019re in a better position on the ground, top side control, top half guard, mount, you\u2019re not guaranteed to stay there. You have to try to finish the fight. Offensive output alone isn\u2019t enough to stay there. If there\u2019s some pitter patter shots that aren\u2019t doing any damage, the referee still has discretion to stand the fighters up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they\u2019re looking for is the fighter in the dominant position still trying, making some effort towards attempting to finish the fight,\u201d he concluded. \u201cAbsent that, the referee does have discretion to stand the fighters up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Goddard was in the right when he stood Khamzat Chimaev and Dricus du Plessis up during their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-84889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}