Who is watching UFC 84 tonight on Spike

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

As a sidenote, I recently became an advocate of eliminating elbows to the head due to the high cut factor. Cuts slow the action of fights. Sometimes the fighter that lands the cutting blow gets penalized because he/she cannot capitalize on the damage of the strike due to the momentary stoppage. That seems unfair if the strike is legal. I think head stomps, soccer kicks, and grounded knees to the head should be reinstituted into the American rule structure. Strikers that stand out of guard to run from grapplers get carded just like grapplers that butt scoot or lie back trying to hide from strikers. If neither wants to engage at the present range, both fighters get carded. I also like the now defunct Pride approach of having a card take a chunk from your prize money. If you cannot fight in a certain range, you need to force the fight into your range, not have a ref do it for you. I eliminate the 10 point must round system and devise a scoring system based on the entire fight. You can't squeek by for two rounds then coast for a third in this system. In my ideal MMA league I would do everything to promote constant activity.

 

[gjohnson5]

As a sidenote, I recently became an advocate of eliminating elbows to the head due to the high cut factor. Cuts slow the action of fights. Sometimes the fighter that lands the cutting blow gets penalized because he/she cannot capitalize on the damage of the strike due to the momentary stoppage. That seems unfair if the strike is legal. I think head stomps, soccer kicks, and grounded knees to the head should be reinstituted into the American rule structure. Strikers that stand out of guard to run from grapplers get carded just like grapplers that butt scoot or lie back trying to hide from strikers. If neither wants to engage at the present range, both fighters get carded. I also like the now defunct Pride approach of having a card take a chunk from your prize money. If you cannot fight in a certain range, you need to force the fight into your range, not have a ref do it for you. I eliminate the 10 point must round system and devise a scoring system based on the entire fight. You can't squeek by for two rounds then coast for a third in this system. In my ideal MMA league I would do everything to promote constant activity.

I dunno
Once the opponent is cut , I would focus on it to open it up more.
Generally the stoppage isnt long enough to stop the bleeding. Even end of rounds don't get the job done for the most part , just hit him again. a straight punch can open that cut back up.

Not to mention the crimson mask looks kewl


But I agree many MMA fights are fighters being cautious trying not to get hit. One fighter becomes forced to push the action and then he may end up getting caught in a sub for it
But IMHO the fighters need to protect themselves

 

[AAP]

who is he fighting? I was able to switch back over to spike as the Penn fight started.

Probably some other loser that can't fight his own shadow. That last guy reminded me of Jerseyart, looking like Lurch from the Adams Family and completely lacking any fighting skills at all.

 

[javaguru]

As a sidenote, I recently became an advocate of eliminating elbows to the head due to the high cut factor. Cuts slow the action of fights. Sometimes the fighter that lands the cutting blow gets penalized because he/she cannot capitalize on the damage of the strike due to the momentary stoppage. That seems unfair if the strike is legal. I think head stomps, soccer kicks, and grounded knees to the head should be reinstituted into the American rule structure. Strikers that stand out of guard to run from grapplers get carded just like grapplers that butt scoot or lie back trying to hide from strikers. If neither wants to engage at the present range, both fighters get carded. I also like the now defunct Pride approach of having a card take a chunk from your prize money. If you cannot fight in a certain range, you need to force the fight into your range, not have a ref do it for you. I eliminate the 10 point must round system and devise a scoring system based on the entire fight. You can't squeek by for two rounds then coast for a third in this system. In my ideal MMA league I would do everything to promote constant activity.

I think elbows are part of the game, I feel the same way about knees on the ground. We just end up with boxing at the end of the day otherwise.

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

I think elbows are part of the game, I feel the same way about knees on the ground. We just end up with boxing at the end of the day otherwise.

That could be the unfortunate destiny of MMA. In the US the UFC seems to be in bed with boxing commissions. They hand power over to the politicians to let the politicians dictate the rules. Over time MMA may get watered down further and further. Remember this match?

Hackney v. Son

Those days are long gone.

 

[dirty~d~]

silva whipped some ass, was that an upset, nota ufc follower here

Not as far as I'm concerned. I knew Jardine was going down, but not that fast. LOL! Way to kick ass Wanderlei!

 

[AztecWarrior]

Not as far as I'm concerned. I knew Jardine was going down, but not that fast. LOL! Way to kick ass Wanderlei!

Hi dirty pillow....oh I mean dirty D. LOL!! Silva looked like the Silva of old pride days.

 

[AztecWarrior]

I've always been here dirty tee's!!!