K-1 banning clinch strikes... wow

Here is the official release. Anyone know what brought on the change?

http://www.k-1.co.jp/en/news/2010/0326_release_01.html

There afraid Semmy Schilt is jus gonna kill someone.. haha but really why?..

This is just fucked up.....K-1 goes down a couple notches in my book. They keep watering down there product more and more.

Although the FEG higher ups would like to make you believe they are doing this to make the sport more fast paced, the reason behind this is clearly directed towards Semmy. They keep trying to even the playing field by limiting Semmy's offense because he is too dominant. Fighters like Overeem and Buakaw are severely hurt by this rule aswell.

You won't see stuff like this anymore -

That sucks man I agree Ninja they are watering down the product. How can this help them?

Ninja\Rua/Fan wrote:

This is just fucked up.....K-1 goes down a couple notches in my book. They keep watering down there product more and more.

Although the FEG higher ups would like to make you believe they are doing this to make the sport more fast paced, the reason behind this is clearly directed towards Semmy. They keep trying to even the playing field by limiting Semmy's offense because he is too dominant. Fighters like Overeem and Buakaw are severely hurt by this rule aswell.

You won't see stuff like this anymore -

as soon as i saw this i tout wow they wanna take that away from semmy,,

only good i see from this tho i dont know if ul agree ninja is that we wont see is people getting pushed down from the clinch ala wat Overeem does 5-6 times a fight which imo slows things down but man i gonna miss seing semmy knee people haha

well that stink,s not a very good rule change IMO