MMA

[Animeniax]

Yeah when a guy punches you in the face and you get scared, take him down and lay on top of him until the ref stops the fight then yeah its lay and pray. He actually mounted Kimbo a couple times during the fight and made no attempt to posture up and strike instead he was content to smother him with his belly fat. You may not call it lay and pray but he really did nothing from the top and won the fight simply because Kimbo wasn't able to get back up.

Getting someone in the crucifix position is high level Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It was Nelson's fault for not doing more damage with elbows, but no way is that lay and pray and no way should the ref stand that up. Getting someone in the crucifix position means they're getting TKO'd 99% of the time. I'm reading around that Nelson intentionally took it easy on Kimbo when he had top position on him. Lay and pray would have been if Nelson hadn't pinned both of Kimbo's arms in an attempt to open up his head to attack, which is exactly what the crucifix does.

Nelson should have improved his position and unloaded some elbows and power punches, but from some other sources I've read that Kimbo's posse doesn't take kindly to anyone derailing their cash cow. There's a story that Kimbo brought a gun to the ATT training center to threaten a fighter who arm-barred him and wouldn't let it go, even though Kimbo would not tap. Threats were also reportedly made against Seth Petruzelli after he beat Kimbo and said he'd beat him again in the UFC once they were both signed.