
Originally Posted by
Jacl Dixon
Man, Geo was looking pissed as the match picked up with Glover. But then again, I would have a hard time resisting give Glover an open palm bitch slap for doing that kind of nonsense in a match.
Glover means no disrespect, and I think people know that for the most part. The reason he does it is two fold. He's said that like it or hate it, he wants people to be entertained during his matches, and this event was for entertainment, so he wanted to put on a show. The other reason is that a lot of his attacks are based on blatantly giving things up like that. For example he has these flying 5050 heel hook entries when someone comes at him when his back is turned.
Bill Cooper does some similar stuff, but not as blatant. I've seen Cooper stick his head into a guillotine so that he can front flip pass a guard, or turn his back slightly when he's in someone's half guard so that he can set up a marce or darce when they try to shrimp out to take his back. Little stuff like that.
No matter what I know it will annoy some people, and there's been times where I wish Glover had played around less, like in his 2nd match with Caio Terra, but overall it works well with him. I've seen people say stuff like "Imagine how much better he'd be if he didn't play around" but I think the playing around is what sets up a lot of transitions and submissions for him.