Joe "Wonder Boy" Stanford Wins His MMA Debut!

[Brandon Mccaghren]

[Chris Herzog]

Congrats, You got a beastie on your hands!

[Joe Friday]

Damn good toss towards the beginning. Florence venue? Ash Rivers reffing?

[bobby rivers]

Very impressive. Did that guy go out from a headlock escape? Nice butterfly to negate the slam too. He gets it.

[Chris Ludington]

Very impressive. Did that guy go out from a headlock escape? Nice butterfly to negate the slam too. He gets it.

We didn't know what really happened. At first I thought he went out from strikes (I was worried Joe hit him in the head). They were all body shots so we thought he just hit him so hard he went to sleep (never seen it but hey who knows). Then I thought he passed out from squeezing so hard (maybe holding his breath). But after watching the high def version I realized what happened.
As Joe clears his head from the head lock, the top of it caught the guy in the jaw. It's quick (I had to watch it about 20 times to see it) but he goes limp on exit.
So he actually got knocked out by inadvertent head butt. Of course NOBODY knew what happened and probably still don't. I haven't had the heart to tell Joe.

In all honesty I think the fight would have been over. Joe doesn't lose that top position very often and when he does it's usually because he LOVES armbars and triangles setup from there. So dude was probably done for. But I hate that it happened the way it did.

[Joe Friday]

We didn't know what really happened. At first I thought he went out from strikes (I was worried Joe hit him in the head). They were all body shots so we thought he just hit him so hard he went to sleep (never seen it but hey who knows). Then I thought he passed out from squeezing so hard (maybe holding his breath). But after watching the high def version I realized what happened.
As Joe clears his head from the head lock, the top of it caught the guy in the jaw. It's quick (I had to watch it about 20 times to see it) but he goes limp on exit.
So he actually got knocked out by inadvertent head butt. Of course NOBODY knew what happened and probably still don't. I haven't had the heart to tell Joe.

In all honesty I think the fight would have been over. Joe doesn't lose that top position very often and when he does it's usually because he LOVES armbars and triangles setup from there. So dude was probably done for. But I hate that it happened the way it did.

Oh god say it ain't so! Ok apparently they are making them wear shin pads now.... but are they not allowed to strike to the head when an opponent is down now?!

[Eddie Bravo]

Holy shit that arm throw was insane! Looks like Joe Stanford is the new 10p star on the block. Hell yeah! Great work Brandon, way to hold down the fort, beautiful job :-)

[Will Thaxton]

Great work!

[Chris Ludington]

Oh god say it ain't so! Ok apparently they are making them wear shin pads now.... but are they not allowed to strike to the head when an opponent is down now?!

In Novice there are no head strikes to a grounded opponent. No knees or elbows to the head at all. No heel hooks or neck cranks..
Advanced rules are different - including strikes allowed to the head of a grounded opponent.

I'm cool with novice fighters not being able to strike the head to a grounded opponent. Let's bring these fighters up in a safe environment and let them develop a proper defensive game. Once they reach advanced and by then hopefully there won't be as many head injuries. That's just my opinion.

I would never let Joe fight if the rules hadn't changed. He just doesn't have enough tools at this point to risk it. But with the rule changes MMA leans a lot more toward Jiu Jitsu guys...and I'm ok with that.

[Brandon Mccaghren]

Holy shit that arm throw was insane! Looks like Joe Stanford is the new 10p star on the block. Hell yeah! Great work Brandon, way to hold down the fort, beautiful job :-)

Even though Joe is representing our school, almost all of the credit for teaching him should go to Chris Ludington. Chris has done a great job of learning and passing the knowledge to Joe. I'm just proud to be involved in the process and to have these guys waving our flag