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Originally Posted by Macgyver
I'm curious as to how do you see it differently?
Babalu's excuse was that he was "teaching respect" while Penn's excuse was that it "Built up from 5 years of shit talking" (not much difference there). Babalu might have held the choke slightly longer, however the fact is they both conciously held the choke longer than required in malice.
To me the only difference was that Babalu was exiled from the UFC. I'm not trying to be a dick or start a big debate, I'm just a huge Babalu fan and I guess I'm still kinda bitter that the punishment was not applied consistently between the two. I'm hoping you can give me a different point of view so I won't resent Penn so much for getting away with it while my boy didn't.
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I'm actually glad you asked cause I struggled with it. I do think that Babalu held the choke longer, but Heath was also bleeding profusely and may have been suffering from head trauma from the shots he was taking.
When Penn sunk the choke on Jens, Jens was fully alert and aware where I saw Heath being very close to being out of his feet, not to mention bleeding like a siv...
Now I agree that both were inappropriate moves, and I've often said that in Babalu's shoes I'd probably of done the same thing If I disliked them enough and lost my temper...
But I do think now that the two situations were different... just an opinion certainly not fact...