Tough guy gets KO'd

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Sometimes, MMA fighters will try to make their fight exciting by dropping their hands and daring their opponent to hit them. UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva did it in his easy win over Stephan Bonnar, and Nick Diaz is quite well known for making this move.
To beg for a punch, a fighter should have confidence in his or her chin. He or she should be positive that this won't happen:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-c...tect-yourself-times-video-215928533--mma.html
 
"You wouldn't dare punch me cause I'm so tough!"
"Dude, we're in the middle of a fight... how could you think..."

However, there is a bit of luck at play here. If he had pulled such a move and not been punched, he'd undoubtedly be viewed positively by the same people calling him the biggest idiot who's ever lived over in that thread.

It's like one experiment they did to test the just-world theory, in which they videotaped some people participating in an experiment in which they agreed to be shocked, and then showed this to others. The others invariably viewed these people negatively, showing them little sympathy. Some rationalized this result by saying that is was perfectly rational to view such people who agreed to get shocked as deserving what they got. But other researched then followed up with a similar study in which some agreed to get shocked, and yet weren't shocked. When other participants in the experiment were asked about these people, who had clearly made all of the same "idiotic" decisions as those in the other experiment, they viewed them in a positive light. Yet how does that really make sense?
 
Knock outs aren't really a matter of toughness or not. It's mostly luck. If a punch hits you in the right way, the biggest badass around will tumble down like a heap of shit.
 
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