• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      14 days ago

      No eye gouging, no kicking/knees/stomps to rhe head of a grounded opponent (we are trying to get this repealed because oneFC allows it). No shots to the back of the head, certain risky submissions are banned. Up until recently you couldn’t elbow straight down from top position. No cage or glove grabbing. No slams with intent to cause injury (spiking on their head). No headbutts or finger holds. Basically all the high risk injury causing stuff is removed.

      You got to understand that these are trained professionals who know how to defend themselves. Its more of a complex strategy game out there for them than trying to kill the opponent.

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        14 days ago

        I have played a complex strategy game before; its rules also happen to (implicitly) ban eye gouging, football kicks to your opponent’s head or pile drivers. It’s a game called Chess, and it doesn’t even give you cauliflower ears👂🏻

        I guess I’m one of those people who simply will never understand MMA.

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          14 days ago

          ban eye gouging … Chess

          Wating for a grandmaster to pull that and then do an air bud “ain’t no rule that says you can’t gouge eyes”