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completely defenseless as soon as the fight hit the ground" says guy who has clearly never been in a fight in his entire life before.
How the fuck do you know they offered zero resistance? Were you fighting them or were just watching a one-minute abbreviated clip that started after the "wrestlers" were assaulted? Looked like plenty of resistance to me - football player with his orbital broken was throwing shots over his shoulder and instigator in jean-jacket wouldn't have gotten his head slammed into a wall if he didn't initiate the fight in the first place...do you think he just accepted that his buddy was going to get beat up and let the other dude hold him well he watched? Of course not, he was also in a fight at that time for fucks sake.
You spin some nonsense about a dangerous scene, multiple opponents, risk of weapons being pulled ..yet it is the mma guys who took the fight to the ground and continued to pound on the helpless footballers when they very clearly done, completely unconcerned with the possibility of people jumping in, getting stabbed, etc. This should tell you something. They had a feel for the room - you are pulling bullshido yarn out of your ass.
You take a bigger guy to the ground where you can dominate and he can't hit you as hard - the goal isn't to hold him down, it's to incapacitate him fella: this means unconscious or fetal-position tapping.
What I posit about getting kicked in the head or a weapon being pulled is the entire reason why you don't take someone down and hold onto them without using damage - once you decide to be in a fight you have no idea what your opponent is capable of; they could gouge your eyes, bite you, attack your crotch. The way you make yourself safe is by rendering them incapacitated, not by holding onto them and doing no damage and presuming you have control of a fight when you actually don't (since you aren't rendering them unable to cause harm). You also have no idea if someone is going to "join the action" so the sooner you can end the fight the better - ending the fight = rendering opponent unconscious or incapable of offering attacks.
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"they had a feel for the room" - they made a split-second decisions to fight back and at that point your goal is to end the fight as fast as possible. Getting in a brawl in a piss-soaked bathroom with dozens of randoms and spectators....yeah tons of "feel" for the action in there....
Your statements about them being helpless aren't supported by the video we watched; dude with broken orbital is still attacking dude on his back. As I noted, the video ends right after we see jean-jacket get slammed and start to eat heavy shots from mount.....then the video ends. If it went for 5-10 seconds longer and dude was still unloading on his limp body then I would see your point.
Seems like you just have a hard-on for football players that bully people and think they can sucker-punch and intimidate without consequence.