The main tag-line of the company was ‘There are no rules.’ UFC rules allowed hair-pulling, groin strikes, and fish-hooking, while biting and eye-gouging were the only things that were banned. The UFC reputation was not a good one as they were known for being violent and the audience...
“humancockfighting” and sought to have the sport banned. In 2001 new UFC management created rules to make the sport less dangerous. It added weight classes, rounds, and time limits and extended the list of fouls in the ring. TherevampedUFC no longer featured mostly brawlers. Newer fighters...
groin strikes, and biting being allowed). There were no weight classes, no rounds, no judges, and consequently no time limits. The UFC’s success and desire to become a mainstream sport, however, saw it and other promotions introduce new rules, which ultimately...
At the time that White and the Fertitta brothers took over, UFC was millions of dollars in debt, and its events were still banned in a number of U.S. states. Under White’s leadership, the company professionalized, adopting rules making the sport less violent, and received official sanction...
The kicks are off the rules when the guy is on the floor because it can be much more dangerous then when you are on your foots...because you can move your entire body and the movement is big and wide giving more power. But since both of them were on the ground the power is ...
minute rounds introduced at UFC 21, the UFC gradually rebranded itself as a sport rather than a spectacle. The implementation of rules changed the game of many fighters, for example Mark Coleman made potent use of headbutts for his ground-and-pound tactics, could not use them effectively ...
However, the end of the UFC-Usada partnership in January theoretically means that McGregor can return any time after that, without having to concern himself with drug-testing rules. That could change now that the UFC has partnered with a different drug-testing organisation, Drug Fre...
There are rules. And penalties.Both for the slugger (no “clubbing,” meaning hits to the ear or chin; no illegal wind-up) and the sluggee (no flinching; no blocking). There are weight classes. There are men’s and women’s divisions. There are, inevitably, “power slap girls” to...
Jones and UFC CEO Dana White will undoubtedly be advocating for the loss to be removed, but that rule was in place when Jones was disqualified in 2009. That was the right call according to the rules at the time, and I just cannot envision we’ll see DQs start to be reversed. ...
While MMA and boxing are sometimes confused for one another, there are actually significant differences in the rules and fighting styles allowed. UFC is winning in the popularity stakes for the best combat sport, with recent interest surpassing that of boxing. Part of MMA and UFCs growth has ...