Has Nomad wrestled before? He keeps harping on Desanto "bouncing Lizak's head off the mat" as if that's the most egregious action Desanto has done this year.
The whistle hadn't been blown yet. It is perfectly legal to hard pressure someone's head and snap it down into the mat. This is done very commonly and is a good wrestling move when trying to turn from top or prior to releasing someone or from neutral in a front headlock. This is also the type of move that you'll see when one wrestler is attempting to physically and mentally break another.
There were 2 seconds remaining in the match when Desanto did this - enough time for him to get a 2 count and he nearly did turn Lizak with a half at the end.
Also, if you watch the match, Lizak's head never bounced off the mat. I know Bratke corrected Nomad last week on FRL, but Nomad brought it up again this week and he's just factually off base here. Watch the end sequence. Desanto hard pressures his head before the whistle is blown. It is never "bounced off the mat".
IMO, Desanto's actions vs Suriano were worse than vs Lizak. I don't want to harp on Desanto's post match actions as it's already been discussed, but Nomad keeps bringing up this point and it's just factually wrong. If you want to criticize Desanto's post match antics, you won't find many people who are going to find all of it kosher, but the "bouncing the head off the mat" never happened and certainly wasn't over the line in any sense as the clock was still running.
Here's a replay of the match. You can see the end "head bounce" starting at 9:30 on the YT timer.
Bouncing someone's head off the mat like a basketball isn't an illegal move and if you let a guy do that to you, you deserve the headache afterwards.
The whistle hadn't been blown yet. It is perfectly legal to hard pressure someone's head and snap it down into the mat. This is done very commonly and is a good wrestling move when trying to turn from top or prior to releasing someone or from neutral in a front headlock. This is also the type of move that you'll see when one wrestler is attempting to physically and mentally break another.
There were 2 seconds remaining in the match when Desanto did this - enough time for him to get a 2 count and he nearly did turn Lizak with a half at the end.
Also, if you watch the match, Lizak's head never bounced off the mat. I know Bratke corrected Nomad last week on FRL, but Nomad brought it up again this week and he's just factually off base here. Watch the end sequence. Desanto hard pressures his head before the whistle is blown. It is never "bounced off the mat".
IMO, Desanto's actions vs Suriano were worse than vs Lizak. I don't want to harp on Desanto's post match actions as it's already been discussed, but Nomad keeps bringing up this point and it's just factually wrong. If you want to criticize Desanto's post match antics, you won't find many people who are going to find all of it kosher, but the "bouncing the head off the mat" never happened and certainly wasn't over the line in any sense as the clock was still running.
Here's a replay of the match. You can see the end "head bounce" starting at 9:30 on the YT timer.
Bouncing someone's head off the mat like a basketball isn't an illegal move and if you let a guy do that to you, you deserve the headache afterwards.