Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.70.92.41-20151228204640/@comment-27402462-20160222112354

You seem pretty presumptious in assuming I'm some Yang fan boy and you seem to have a very negative attitude toward this subject.

"Oh course Mercury threw the fight! Only an idiot would think otherwise." seems to be your viewpoint.

For your argument about " the greater and more genuine the foul seemingly is", you're just proving my point on the matter. You didn't mention anywhere about the circumstances of whether Yang won or lost the fight,  only about her attacking Mercury (which is what I covered in my previous comment). Either way, if she won the fight or lost, Emerald would have set her up to attack Mercury unprovoked and the crowd would see her in a bad light. That's the whole point. The match itself wasn't important. It's the fact that it seems like she just seriously injured Mercury after the fight was already over.

And about Mercury turning his back, if the match didn't matter, then why should he care if he turned his back? Maybe he thought she was injured enough for him to relax or that the buzzer would be about to ring by the time he turned around (or maybe he was expecting her semblence to kick in and when it happened, turned aroudn to face her). I'm not saying Mercury absolutely genuinely lost the fight, I'm saying the question is still up in the air and is up for debate. Throwing the fight is definitely not out of the question.

Also, for some of your other points, being trained to kill people doesn't automatically make you a better fighter (it makes you more ruthless maybe, but Mercury couldn't go that far in front of a crowd).

Also, Yang semblance also increases her speed as well as her strength and up to this point, we haven't seen him fight anyone that had great speed. Also, Yang being on the defensive doesn't automatically make Mercury the better fighter overall. He's very strong and stratigetic in his attacks. Lots of fight in history have worked out with those starting out on the defensive and turning the tables on their opponent.