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Yeah I remember Big John McCarthy giving warnings for "playing the game" when a fighter kept trying to draw the foul by lifting his hand off the mat briefly then putting it back down, was disgraceful but expected when the rules are that retarded. I'm glad they did away with it too even if I have mixed feelings about soccer kicks to grounded opponents (due to it always being a fight ending technique unlike head-kicks to standing opponents)Yeah, I wasn't sure. At one time, IIRC, a single downed knee (or even a hand on the floor-- which was absurd) qualified you as a "downed" fighter, and head kicks weren't allowed. I can't remember what fight it was, maybe it had Josh Thomson, and you can't blame him for exploiting the rules, but I recall a fighter bending farther over at the waist while in a headlock and putting a hand on the floor so his opponent couldn't knee him.
So glad we got away from that bullshit. North-South knees should be legal. It's ridiculous how much training goes into ineffective empty-handed fighting techniques and theory to adapt simply because those aren't allowed. We learn two decades ago that allowing a man to control you in North-South was an immediate don't-pass-go fight-losing position. I still remembering Heath Herring fights.
I saw a Roger Huerta fight where the ref had to give the fighter permission to soccer kick him, and Roger was just sat there dazed not knowing what was going on let alone what was about to happen to him. Pretty brutal.
