Saturday, December 18, 2010

"Changing Rules of MMA?"

I am a big fan of mix martial arts, and I love all aspects of the sport. I like the striking, ground, clinching, knockouts, submission, and other aspects of the sport. Mix Martial Arts is a chess game played with the human body, and the object of it is to take away the person's will to fight by knockout, technical knockout like striking an opponent that could not defend itself, or submission. One of the things I hope does not happen to the sport is that they change the rules, because people need to try make the sport excited.

One of the things people say that makes mix martial arts boring are sometimes the clinching along the fence, and the ground play when it seems there is no action go on. If their is a stalemate going on between the two fighters in the clinch or ground, than the referee will restart both fighters back to their fight. This is one part of mix martial arts that I am not a fan of, and I do believe there is a better way to solve the problem of stalemate than restarting them to their fight. Restarting a fight during a stalemate does interfere with the outcomes of the fight, and that is the problem of restarting a fight.

Improving stalemates in mix martial arts can be made through constant education of the sport to the public, officiating, and judges. Martial arts have been around for a long time, but it has only been in public arenas for at least 2 to 3 decades. Mix Martial Arts has a lot intricacies in it like grabbing a person's wrist in a clinch or on the ground for control to setup for a next move or prevent an opponent from gaining control, and that part of the sport is boring for some people that does not understand what is going on. Through education of mix martial arts is way for people to see what's going on, and the best way to do this is by actual participation of mix martial arts as a recreation. That is where people can began educating themselves about mix martial arts to see the intricacies of the sport, than maybe they can see that the clinching against the cage or the ground is not the most boring part of the sport. If people can appreciate this part of mix martial arts, than I do not see a whole lot of rule changes for mix martial arts.

There are no questions about some fighters that do hold their position into kill time to win the fight, or they are just resting until the end of the round or fight. This is an aspect of mix martial arts that does not make it exciting, but restarting the fighters back to their fight I do not think is the best way around this problem. You can restart the fighters back to their feet, and they can still end up back in the same position than would the referee would restart them back to their position. You see the way referees try to solve the stalemate does not solve it, but just interferes in the match more to effect the outcome. The way to solve the stalemate when it is being used for fighters to rest is to start deducting points for lets say every 30 seconds a fighter is resting a position they lose a point, and this would encourage fighters that use stalemate for resting not to rest too long or not at all. If they know they will lose points for resting, than they will be constantly moving or doing something. I do believe that this could be a better way to prevent stalemates that fighters use to rest, and this will prevent other rules to be changed that could effect the competition that makes mix martial arts the most exciting sports to watch.

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