Okay, so where do we even start with this? Phil “Mr. Wonderful” Davis. You know, the guy who thinks any fighter caught juicing up with PEDs should automatically lose. Just flip the win to a loss. Easy peasy, right? I mean, is that really all there is to it? Jim Miller, that dude with more UFC fights than I’ve got socks, has a twist on this idea: let’s throw in eye pokes too. Yep, those pesky eye pokes that make you wince every single time you see them happen in a fight. I swear, they look worse than an onion in your eye.
Anyway, Miller had a bit of a nostalgia moment, reminiscing about PRIDE—the legend with all those crazy fights in Japan where rules were more immediate and less… convoluted, I guess? Picture this: if a fighter poked the other guy and they couldn’t continue, boom, instant DQ. No messing around. Sounds simple, right?
Here’s Jim’s take, which kind of feels like sitting around discussing why your favorite cereal never stays crunchy in milk. He says most fights with a poke don’t go great for the poor poked soul. I mean, are we surprised? Having a finger jabbed in your eye isn’t exactly an energy boost. His logic is—get this—mostly about hand placement. Like, can we blame modern fighters trying to push each other off?
Cage, fighting, maybe thinking of what your next meal’s gonna be, whatever. Jim was clear when chatting with Cageside Press: if pokes led to DQs, we’d see them drop like my weekend productivity. Makes you wonder why it hasn’t been tried already… or maybe not. I dunno. Just a thought.
Here’s the twist (like a plot but less exciting). Jim’s been guilty. Yep, eye poke city, population Jim Miller. He’s had his finger do a little unintended pokey-pokey during a fight with Donald Cerrone. But, to his credit, he owned it. He even says that if the ref had stopped the fight over it, well, Jim says he’d just have to live with it. Big boy pants and all.
To round it off, Jim’s all about following the rule book. If we really treated fouls as fouls, maybe slap a nice “DQ” stamp on those eye poke incidents, we’d be in business. It’s almost like arguing over whether pineapple belongs on pizza. Really, how often do we stick to rules as we should? Just… just a little food for thought. Or poke for thought? Ugh, I lost my train of thought… anyway…
If you’re curious and haven’t got anything better to do, the whole chat is floating around somewhere on the interwebs. Go watch it, I guess. It’s not exactly a thriller, but hey, it’s got Jim being, well, Jim.
