Reading all this makes me feel a bit more sympathetic for Kalib. To fight like that just to "make a statement", as some claimed he was doing, would have been inexcusable. But it sounds like he just became convinced he had no answers for Quarry and got stuck in retreat mode.
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I found myself in a fight where I couldn't stand with the guy, he was awkward and he hit hard having almost knocked me out three times in the fight, I couldn't take him down and work my ground game (I got him down only once and just managed to land a few shots because he got up so fast), and so I felt like I could either keep moving or get knocked out. Then late in the third he started to mock me out of frustration, but really at that point, I was just a solidly beaten fighter who was trying not to get knocked out, and had fallen into a pattern that I couldn't get out of. It was the worst athletic performance of my life.
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That's a hard position to be in. I sure as hell wouldn't want to just go in there and get knocked out in a fight I was sure was lost . . . but then again, I'm not a professional fighter.
I still can't help but think there had to be a better answer.