Anyone else feel like each fighter should get a timeout or something ?

Oh man, I can't wait for the first fighter to call a timeout while up big in the 3rd round just to take a curtain call.
 
mmainvestigations said:
True. I prefer the elongated cage myself, it would feel very primal to see one fighter try to assert his dominance and make the other flee to a corner seemingly. In reality, however, the fleeing fighter is just biding his time, waiting to enact his revenge. Happens all the time in the animal kingdom. Revenge is a primal part of the psyche of living things.
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Brilliant! I'm gasping for air at times like Valentina - this is great!
 
Ok, what about pulling down? Say Gane climbs up into a corner upon discovering that his head's not really in the fight. So he's regrouping, planning. But Jon is a crafty mutherfucker! He climbs up and hangs on Gane's leg and thrashes violently... I don't know if you know but Jon's got legendary grip strength. Gane and him come tumbling down and Gane's whole regrouping is proper fucked like the rabbit.

The more I think about this, the less drawbacks I see...
 
What about an extra round where the guy losing can challenge the winner in any other skill to gain an extra point and make it a tie?

Bruce Buffer is about to call the results when: CHAAAAALEEEENGEEEEEE!!!!!!!!. Fighter X challenges Fight Y to a break dance in the extra round for all the marbles!
 
I'd love to see Anderson adopt his moniker and literally act like a spider. His opponent has to swat him down from the corner of the ceiling with a wadded up newspaper
 
Or if a fighter causes too many fouls the referee is able to take away their video games for a month

"Four weeks! No Legos!" *Mexican crowd boos* - Herb Dean refereeing for Brandon Moreno
 
I know this is shitposting, but I am surprised that no one brought up the rope breaks in Pancrase. Very similar, and I always thought that was an interesting concept.
 
Imagine a fighter doing an infinite amount of time outs, thus breaking the spacetime continuum as we know it.
You’re an evil bastard TS
 
mmainvestigations said:
The idea is to make it less like a dogfight and more like a wild safari. An animal can flee in the wild if he chooses, and plot his counteract from afar. Adds more dynamism to the fight.
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Right, cause animals in a wild safari can just call a timeout when they're in danger. I love when a gazelle calls a timeout after a lion has injured him and is about to kill and eat him.
 
I never understood why escaping the cage was a method of victory in a steel cage match. What's the rationale behind that?
 
mudrubble said:
Ok, what about pulling down? Say Gane climbs up into a corner upon discovering that his head's not really in the fight. So he's regrouping, planning. But Jon is a crafty mutherfucker! He climbs up and hangs on Gane's leg and thrashes violently... I don't know if you know but Jon's got legendary grip strength. Gane and him come tumbling down and Gane's whole regrouping is proper fucked like the rabbit.

The more I think about this, the less drawbacks I see...
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I'm envisioning the cage being close to 75 ft tall by the way, so the scene you describe is magnified by the sheer scale of the arena, and the risk of death. It would be quite a spectacle.

I'd also imagine certain fighters getting very good at cage climbing. So good that these fighters could land one punch to get an advantage, then spend the rest of the match evading their opponents on the cage. The entire match would be one high flying game of cat (leopard) and mouse (baboon). Wouldn't make for the most exciting fight, but sometimes that's just how it turns out in nature.
 
mmainvestigations said:
So they have time to recharge or escape danger. It adds an element of strategy into the mix, instead of just forcing them to fight like dogs in a fighting pit with nowhere else to go.

Alternately, they could make the octagon more like a proper cage that has higher walls and also a chain link ceiling. If in danger they could climb the cage to escape, hanging out in a corner like some kind of spider or baboon until they're ready to come fight again.

They could also launch attacks from the walls and drop down from the ceiling on their opponent. It would triple the amount of strategies used and make for a more exciting bout.
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TS - the second para of this, and every subsequent time you further elaborated on the idea, made me actually physically laugh more than anything on Sherdog ever has before. Fuckin brilliant comedy, bravo.
 
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