If You Could Add 1 Thing to American MMA

i want soccer kicks and knees.

None of these. Overall scoring system in PRIDE. No points for pointless takedowns.

The Jap chicks doing the entrances

Why the hell do people want yellow cards so much? Can't you guys realize that Japanese MMA sucks? And almost anything they do over there that's different over here is just goofy and takes away from the sport somehow? That said, knees to a grounded opponent needs to be allowed.

Hold the fence...fuck the wrestlers..jk

YELLOW CARDS

i love that ear twisting got a vote hahahahha

Headbutts. I miss them and they add flavor to the event. I like kneeing downed opponents too.

agree andrew remember when Coleman took Maurice Smith down and went with like 20 headbutts in a row hahaha

Of the choices given I'd go with knees to a downed opponent. What I really would like is if they allowed guys on their backs to kick an opponent in the head even if the opponent is grounded. I think it would even out the adantage of being either on the top or the bottom giving these bjj guys with no takedown defense alittle more of a chance.

I also like the yellow card idea but I'd settle for refs that threatened taking points for running or dancing to much or that know when and when not to stand fights up.

Birdofthad wrote:

agree andrew remember when Coleman took Maurice Smith down and went with like 20 headbutts in a row hahaha

Bird, just so you know, if the UFC were to allow headbutts again, you buddy Tito would be champ again. lol

Headbutts would destroy our sport. Of all the rules passed, that is probably the most important for making the sport look like a sport and not a cockfight.

remember when Smith took the headbutts and eat up Coleman with 12-6 elbows from the bottom

We could just attach small blades to their heels and call it human cock fighting.

Headbutts are less dangerous than kneeing downed opponents, yes they cause more blood, but they don't increase 'actual' damage which the knees do. And again I have no problem with the knees either, though they would cause much more real damage to an opponent. In the nearly 17 year history of MMA in North America and since that point, I can only recall 2 deaths due to an MMA bout, one sanctioned the other not. Both fighters failed to inform the doctors that they had been told not to fight due to bleeds on the brain. This includes the barbaric years of 3 or 4 rules. The safety of fighters start with their knowledge of the sport/art forms, the following the instructions of the referee at all times, and the referee/doctor knowing when to stop a bout. Worrying about ancillary issues is what politicians/preachers do.

Laser cats imo

They should chance the way fights are scored before they do anything else.

GDP wins this argument! He was dead on.

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Headbutts are less dangerous than kneeing downed opponents, yes they cause more blood, but they don't increase 'actual' damage which the knees do. And again I have no problem with the knees either, though they would cause much more real damage to an opponent. In the nearly 17 year history of MMA in North America and since that point, I can only recall 2 deaths due to an MMA bout, one sanctioned the other not. Both fighters failed to inform the doctors that they had been told not to fight due to bleeds on the brain. This includes the barbaric years of 3 or 4 rules. The safety of fighters start with their knowledge of the sport/art forms, the following the instructions of the referee at all times, and the referee/doctor knowing when to stop a bout. Worrying about ancillary issues is what politicians/preachers do.

Sammy Vasquez in Texas was one, who was the other? I know for the longest time only Douglas Dedge was the only MMA death, and he was fighting in the Ukraine because he was denied liscense here.


Weather or not headbutts cause less damage isn't the reason, it is how they look. I'd be significantly less interested in MMA if headbutts were allowed.

Yeah headbutts would be fucking retarded IMO

Moves currently illegal in the UFC you would change? http://boards.espn.go.com/boards/mb/mb?sport=moresports&id=mma&tid=4473089&lid=27

I was all for kneeing downed opponents, but since I saw Shad on 'Deadliest Warrior' kneeing a downed dummy, in which they said would have killed somebody, I am now against it. I got my mind changed...