*Edit* This post is mostly null and void. Nevada's athletic commission still has the old rules available on their website, which is what I was using for this post, but they amended it in September 2022 to include the weight-bearing language as an addendum. The post is otherwise unchanged for posterity, and general complaints about the rule overall*
People give New Jersey shit for being super against the weight down / two hands down thing, but Nevada, despite being basically the posterboy for MMA rules, is even worse at how they manage shit.
Weasle is saying that that Nevada did adopt the Unified Rules except the grounded fighter definition.
And he is correct that Bennett did say their rule is "weight-bearing." And I can't speak to the truth of it, but apparently Ariel had it confirmed that their commission officials do teach and look for specifically weight bearing...
But the problem is, it doesn't say that in the rules. If you go to Nevada's rules, or even the very article Weasle cited about Nevada accepting the rules and Bennett mentioning the weight thing, it specifically says "anything other than the soles of the feet touching the ground constitutes a grounded fighter." with zero mention of weight. So they might be using/teaching/pushing a form of the rule that isn't how they wrote it?
It's shit like this that makes NJ look correct when they told the ABC to fuck off and correct their own wording because it's only going to create more confusion. What a bunch of fuck ups.