10 Precise Moments That Forever Changed MMA Rules

One of the biggest misconceptions about MMA is that it has very few

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, depending on how your hands are placed on the ground, you can't use certain maneuvers, you can't elbow at particular angles, apparently if you have a boob job that creates There is a problem with overcoming health regulations, I don't know, and the more you get into it, the more meaningless minutiae there are in the rule set, so this misconception that there are so few

rules

goes back to the old times more than he does anything else: hitting with balls, hooks in the hair, hitting the back of the head, kneeling on the ground, etc., it all used to be legal, but for obvious reasons it all became illegal, but There are also a lot of crazy rules that basically had to come about because someone actually tried to do it, so that's what we'll give today.

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the rules of MMA number 10 Vaseline door Before almost every fight in any combat sport, you can usually see a cut man applying Vaseline to a fighter's face, which is also refills between rounds and basically the reason is Vaseline reduces the chance of the skin being cut and minimizes friction from incoming punches because obviously it's not ideal to stop a fight just because of a cut, but until UFC 94, to the corners of the fighters were allowed to apply this at the end of each round and if you have ever felt Vaseline or Vaseline more generically, you will know that it is extremely slippery, so when Georges st.

Pierre's corner began illegally rubbing the substance on his shoulders, chest and back during his welterweight title defense at UFC 94. Questions reasonably arose now, no one knows if this was an honest mistake or a genuine attempt to cheat , as it was an incredibly small amount, but his opponent The night BJ Penn was furious and even Dana White had a brief rant on the side of the octagon as a result of the commotion, right on his GSP was wiped with a towel at the start of rounds 3 and 4 by the members of the Commission, so only the topic of Vaseline was used. during these second rounds, but this was an extremely glaring flaw, ripe for abuse and with the extremely vocal protest of the BJ Penn camp and Dana's feelings on the whole matter, the US instituted a permanent rule along with the commissions athletics that employed independent men to apply exclusively.

Grease moves towards number nine fighters, no more speedos, there aren't many sports that have a greater disparity and female fans of Melda than MMA, our own channel metrics reflect that we are clearly women, that's basically why that we have ring girls and not Magic Mike. guys parading around the cage unless, of course, you're an Invicta, but at UFC 133 Dennis Holman not only fought inside the octagon but also ended up showing more skin than your favorite ring girl and her TKO loss to Brian Ebersole, who already did strange things by having an arrow-shaped arrow right in his chest.

Hallman was wearing a pair of extremely skimpy blue boxers and claimed to have lost a bet with his teammates and that sort of thing, but he stood by what he did bet, regardless of Dana White getting outraged after saying he was horrified by what he saw. , I would call it disgusting, that was disgusting and no one would ever fight in the UFC with that look again, it will never happen again. I can guarantee you that thanks Dana for his next fight, Hallman would continue. to get a submission victory, but his contract was never renewed by the UFC and although Dana claims this was not due to the clothing fiasco, it's not like many people get released for winning streaks and to this day, if you write Dennis Hallman on the Google speedometer. and shorts are usually the first suggestions that appear with your results the legend lives in the number 8 12 to 6 cubits is perhaps the silliest rule that fans want to change the most special if your name is John Jones the most common reason why which this is straight and The straight elbow down is banned because the athletic commissions were afraid to see martial arts demonstrations where they broke like a whole foot of ice or something as silly as those boards that weakened before their time, you know that kind of thing, it's true that this is a factor that's actually only part of the reason, while speaking on Joe Rogan's podcast, Big John McCarthy, who was there when the first official Unified Arts Rules were created mixed martial arts, explained that this technique was also banned because of a single fight in 2000.

Six-foot-ten-inch Gann McGee faced a much smaller foe, Brad Gabriel, in the IFC Battlefield ; Unfortunately, we couldn't find images of this online; it's probably on someone's VHS player or maybe it's dubbed over the giant McGee, who would later go on to compete for the UFC. The heavyweight titleholder attacked his opponent with these downward elbows repeatedly and it was one of the doctors at this event who would help John McCarthy create Unified Rules. The doctor wanted to ban all elbows at first, but decided to ban only downward elbows from twelve to six because of John McCarthy, he considered this fight to be the main reason why number seven threw an opponent over the cage. even though there weren't many rules in the tank.

Abbott stays, you know he's the kind of guy who wouldn't even follow the rules. in modern MMA if he felt like he could get away with it and his intentions during his fight with Cal Worsham at Ultimate Ultimate in 1996 led to the creation of an instant rule that many fans may not have even thought about immediately when the fight started. . a striking stat he benched at over 600 pounds rushed forward in his typical fighting manner, but then, shockingly, grabbed a 230-pound Cal Worsham and literally attempted to throw his opponent onto the octagon as if he were dead or alive and get automatic wins or something.

The worrying thing was that the Abbott tank actually came quite close with adoration, explaining that only his heel and padding saved him from embarrassment and the final tank comfortably took the victory, but obviously the possibility of a fighter falling six feet on his head. on a metal platform was necessary to be removed Big John McCarthy soon after made the decision within the UFC to disqualify anyone who attempted to throw his opponent over the side of the cage, which also led to the conclusion that he probably should also It is forbidden to hold on to fence number six, to hold short in an MMA today. minimal excess clothing and for good reason the wrestler shorts don't get in the way of being constantly disheveled or unbuttoned like they did with the old G's and still do in BJJ competitions with all their gear today, but In the case of Pat Miletich versus Mikey Burnett for the inaugural wilterweight title back in 1998, both men's shorts somehow became a critical aspect of the fight throughout the fight, both Mills Hitch and Burnett had a solid grip on each other's shorts, resulting in a very boring affair as neither fighter was able to separate and get going.

Calling too often not only made for an obviously uneventful inaugural title fight, but also the crowd found the whole ordeal quite comical. John McCarthy had the unenviable task of having to fix Burnett's shorts and get dangerously close to his trash in the process. while fans had a great view of Miletich, his right buttock, which the man gripping so short was instantly banned and fighters could not legally use them for leverage again for obvious reasons. The shorts were coincidentally the first UFC shorts with the infamous tap out logo. them and they sold on eBay for over $1500 in 2015.

I'm sure they smell really good. Number 5, the introduction of TKOs. The first iteration of UFC fights only ended in one of three ways: submission by knockout or when the cornermen threw in the towel, but even these minimum rules were not met in the inaugural UFC event when Gerard Gordeau delivered a massive kick in the sumo wrestler Taylor's head at Lee and sent his tooth to the front row, that's because the original referee understandably recognized the danger and stopped the fight UFC founder Ian Gracie was extremely upset because he didn't want to stoppages back then basically the loser is either completely unconscious or they somehow quit through themselves or their team, so Horry asked his friend Big John McCarthy to referee from there.

Go ahead and follow this rule completely blindly, unlike the first referees coming into UFC two where Pat Smith delivered some hellish elbows to Scott Morse from the mounts, so due to the rules McCarthy was totally unable to stop the fight and it appears that Big John yelled at him. The corner of Morse and Pat Smith hearing that deciding to get up or simply deciding it was done meant the brutal attack was over; You can only imagine it if he just didn't stop, and after the event, at this particular moment, McCarthy threatened to hurry up. About that, he would resign if he was not given the power to protect the fighters - starting with UFC 3 the concept of referee stops was born.

The UFC inspired groin shots number 4 the foot valley international championship or IVC for short held its first event. 1997 was a one night tournament where former UFC fighter Gary Big Daddy Goodridge fought wrestling expert Pedro Octavio and the finals with hi gang and biting were illegal, but the Brazilian organization gave the green light to shots in groin, to which Goodridge was forced to directly hit his prized opponents. he possession, but would even go beyond Nené Octavia's balls, literally digging her feet and fingers into Pedro's trunk to try to escape being down when the two were standing. The bridge became even more uncomfortably intimate with his opponent taking a handful of his junk which forced Pedro to fall to the ground in discomfort and yes, all of this led to Goodridge securing the stoppage victory.

Fortunately, IVC would create a specific rule that prevented a fighter from reaching his opponent's trunk for the next event, the most infamous and justified ball smash occurred at UFC 4 between convicted gang rapists and murderers Oh they're trite bikie, but this for alone was not enough to force an immediate rule change, as this took place three years later, before the promotion banned it in 1997, which coincidentally was a few months after IVC's Bandido, but for entirely different reasons, With increasing political pressure being the biggest reason why #3 went to prayer after their first fight at UFC 1, both guys, Gracie and Ken Shamrock, won several tournaments and titles before their rematch.

The first UFC poster boy won Gracie. UFC tournaments two and four, while Shamrock went and conquered Pan Grace for the inaugural title in Japan, so there was obviously great anticipation when the two rematched at UFC 5 with fans waiting to see Ken Katako raise a game of submission on the second attempt, but instead of the interesting wrestling affair everyone was expecting, we witnessed a lot of downtime with shamrock guy Lang in Gracie's guard simply avoiding submissions for the most part and barely taking the risk of landing a lot of ground in its own pound without there being any decision.

To defend the fighters for lack of action back then, Shamrock essentially just stood there on the defensive and was afraid to risk anything besides lifting Gracie for a full 36 minutes until the fight was declared a draw, marking the longest fight in UFC history and the first. draw and promotion In order to combat this, referees were immediately given the ability to terminate as wrestlers due to inactivity for the next event which was definitely a great addition to the ruleset, unfortunately this means we have seen a lot of questionable matchups . since then, but at least it prevents something like this from happening, in addition to this, time limits were formally adopted and partly to avoid number two, the introduction of judges, the former UFC bosses definitely hated the idea of ​​having to bring judges who hoped that they had addressed the problem of inactivity with confrontations with the referees and, over time, prevented subsequent draws.

After all, aside from Ken vs. Hoist, 268 of the first 69 UFC fights ended with the final issue resolved well, not quite when Ken Shamrock met Oleg. Taktarov at UFC 7 with the consumer fight title on the line, but tarring both men and calling for action didn't lead to a finish even though Shamrock was theaggressor, the fight lacked much activity and a stoppage was never close during the 33 minutes. He stated in his autobiography that he didn't want to inflict too much damage on Oleg, who would train with Lions Den, but he was also known for ruthlessly training people back then with a training style of just beating everyone up, so sure, he also claimed to have shoes on.

UFC 1 would have meant I would beat Hoist Gracie, they took my shoes off because they knew if they could take that Hoist off my balance he would have a better chance of beating me, just my opinion, they cheated but still without any real judges in place Octagon site to score the fight, another big main event in the UFC ended in a draw and therefore a massive failure in response. The following event was the first in UFC history to feature scorecards and judges' decisions along with a 15-minute period. time limit in an effort to push the action even further, ironically though during the tournament, both the semi-finals and final would be decided.

Number one won championships. Weight cut. I think most of us can easily agree that cutting weight is probably the most ridiculous way. In this aspect of the sport, almost every fighter undergoes a gruesome dehydration process just to avoid being the smaller man with a weight disadvantage a day later on fight night, December 2015. Flyweight 21 year old Chinese man, Yang Jian, tragically received the ultimate price for this. and he died after attempting a particularly difficult cut. It's extremely disappointing that it took a death for the decision to change, but one championship made a drastic overhaul of their weight cutting protocols as a direct result and used hydration testing to essentially eradicate weight cuts entirely, but there are still tons of questions about this, as many fighters look noticeably big on fight night, there are examples like Eddie Alvarez where, although the lightweight is a hundred and seventy pounds in one.

Instead of 155, his walking weight has been his claim that he is as tall as 190 in the past. You shouldn't be able to pass hydration tests if you weigh that much. He also claimed that his opponents are bigger than him by 1. DJ has said the same about his opponents for Angela Lee; It's the opposite at Adam Weight, where she looks bigger than her opponents in the last month, they finally started posting videos of the weigh-ins even though people like Angela Lee still appear. needing to wear an underwire, which is indicative of a weight cut, of course, it's still possible that you're trying to stay within your hydration limits and just need that last little bit and the floating item to shave it off, it just takes a little bit of healthy skepticism because if it works correctly it should definitely be carried over to MMA worldwide if it can do what it says, but the death associated with this rule automatically puts it at the top of our list and is certainly the most important change to make before it happens under the unified rules.

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