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Frank Mir snapped Tim Sylvia's arm at UFC 48 yet Big Tim wanted to keep fighting. MMA Nation takes a look at the brain processes involved in Sylvia's fighting through pain . Photo by Arnold Lim, MMA Ring Report.

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so let’s see how pain is processed in tim sylvia’s brain….

by gabriezim on Aug 9, 2011 1:02 PM EDT reply actions  

I believe it's a height thing.

Sylvia is just too tall for pain. His pain signals can only travel to a maximum altitude that works out to less than his current lumbering height.

IT’S SCIENCE.

"Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but it seems to me that when the giant who holds up the Earth dies, we are screwed!"

by AwkwardwithwordmakingisGoldberg,huhJoe on Aug 9, 2011 1:27 PM EDT reply actions  

Right

like capillary action drawing water up a tube; it can only go so high

by Shaun32887 on Aug 9, 2011 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

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