ITT: UFC prohibitions that are stupid and thus need to be repealed:
>hitting the back of the head
>heel to kidney strikes
>abusive language
>timidity
>12 to 6 elbows (not sure about this one)
Thoughts?
Tag team in the UFC when?
>>1097604
>Do you get in trouble for being a pussy?
Basically stalling or avoiding your opponent. It gives an advantage to strikers imho.
>first point
Jesus, that sounds fucking awful
Also, it just occurred to me that you should be allowed to were a gi, and/or go bare knuckles if you want to.
>>1097613
I think the reason you aren't allowed to wear a gi is because it gives your opponent an advantage. They wore gis a lot in the early days. There were a lot less rules back then and it was pretty messed up.
>>1097613
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:12879792
That's a quick video of the five on five MMA thing. It's only 30 seconds but it's all you need to see really.
>>1097619
Some techniques require grabbing on to your own gi, plus it creates friction and makes it harder for your opponent to slip out of your grip.
I'm not saying it should be compulsory, I'm saying it should be optional. And the gi top and gi pants should be considered separate, so you can go gi top with shorts, gi pants with no top, just shorts, or full gi.
Gives you an advantage, and also a disadvantage at the same time. That's how a lot jiu-jitsu promotions do it.
>>1097619
gis are a weapon in the right hands, bjj and judo especially are super fucking reliant on using the gi for grips and chokes and shit
like doing an ezekiel choke on someone, your sleeve is basically a weapon. at that point you might as well let the fighter use a piece of rope to strangle each other
>>1097604
I saw some clips from that its ridiculous. Basically just a bar fight with refs
>>1097613
>Basically stalling or avoiding your opponent. It gives an advantage to strikers imho.
Sounds like a perfectly legitimate strategy
they need to get rid of those ugly reebok shit. fucking let fighters wear their own shit again
>>1098059
I know, Royce would have been found guilty of this in most of his old fights due to his distance control.
>>1097613
Here are some bare-knuckled fights. They feel kind of uncomfortable to watch, like you're watching a real street fight. might get a few politicians riled up again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZmnuP6JUzE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDf0NF32Vs8
>>1098977
This thread is making me think that I might be a bad person for liking mma, also, nice dubz.
>>1098988
thanks and why do you have to be a bad person, just posting gifs and webms of people getting away with breaking rules in MMA.
Eye pokes are technically illegal doesn't stop people from doing them, same with nut shots and kidney blows
>>1098981
Why is Jones such a dirty fuck? and why does he consent to fighting manlets? Isn't that kind of like fighting women?
>>1098997
>>1098998
Cause its what his coach tells him to do, Jackson gym is known for specialising in eye pokes, they even had an entire chapter to them in their instructional and how to disguise them from people.
>>1097574
>hitting the back of the head
Can kill someone or cause horrendous brain injury
>heel to kidney strikes
Can kill someone
>abusive language
this should be allowed
>timidity
let men fight
>12 to 6 elbows (not sure about this one)
12 to 6 elbows is actually a holdover from a sort of martial arts FEAR brought on by the fact that 12 to 6 elbows are what karateka and other martial artists used to break bricks for spectacle. There is nothing more or less inherently dangerous about a vertical elbow vs a horizontal elbow other than bad optics
I am also keenly away that any combat can lead to death or serious injury, but the first to you listed are definitely excluded for good reason
>>1098997
Refs should be more strict with point deductions. you should get a warning on the first eye poke, then the second poke should result in a point deduction.
>>1099016
>let men fight
As a BJJ-fag, I'm just worried that distance management will be mistaken for timidity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM_DGNc3FZ0
Watch the first few minutes to get a feel for what I mean.
Why is a heel to the kidney so dangerous? I'm not saying its not, I'm just asking why.
>>1099016
>Can kill someone
Citation needed
>>1097629
Why is it compulsory to wear trunks/briefs at all? Granted it is a small sample size, but every videobivr seen where a guy goes full naked, the opponent runs away immediately 100% of the time. It is a true fight-ender
>>1099173
...What advantage would it have? A few woman and gay men would filter into the sport, and casual/hardcore fans alike would flee en masse.
I mean this is already a thing, I"m pretty sure there's a male version of UltimateSurrender over on Kink.com
>>1099211
Psychological advantage. Make other fighter lose points for passivity.
>>1099008
>Jackson
When in doubt, fingers out
>>1099119
Seems like the same principle as out-boxing. The timidity rule does ruin multiple types of fighting.
