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How different would fights be if there were *NO* decisions allowed for victory?

You'd probably have fewer finishes. It only takes 1 guy to make it a snoozer, and once someone feels outmatched, he can just avoid and run the clock out.
 
HHJ said:
There really wasn't a finish in this fight. Royce just gave up, cos it's a 90 min match. More out of boredom than anything else probably lol
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I think the corner ended up throwing in the towel.
 
joy2day said:
I think the corner ended up throwing in the towel.
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Yeah


If you have no time limits, people are gonna conserve their energy, and of course wind up gassing anyway probably
 
This is a sport, not a fight to the death.

There really isn't any future in such a thing in the long term.

Id rather see my favorite fighter have 30 fights instead of one long shitty one.

But hey, do you.
 
GSP would be a tomato can. Mark Hunt would've been a UFC champion at some point. the Dagestanis would be trash tier. guys like Mike Perry would be considered GOAT candidates in MMA.
 
HHJ said:
There really wasn't a finish in this fight. Royce just gave up, cos it's a 90 min match. More out of boredom than anything else probably lol
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come on, he gave up because he was getting his ass kicked. it was his own rules and he threw in the towel, you only do that because you're losing.
 
Pancake Sprawl said:
come on, he gave up because he was getting his ass kicked. it was his own rules and he threw in the towel, you only do that because you're losing.
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They were dickin around most of that fight. Yes he lost. But it's barely a fight most of the way through.
 
HHJ said:
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If you have no time limits, people are gonna conserve their energy, and of course wind up gassing anyway probably
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Right, and when you think about it, no one really benefits from those kinds of fights. It's mostly really boring to be a spectator, and brutal to be a fighter (WAY too much damage for one fight).

Boxing was kind of like that up until the early 20th century. Matches only went to 15 rounds in the 20s and 30s; before that you had crazy 100 round matches. Leaving that era was an obvious improvement.

It was only when I was a kid that they changed it to 12 rounds in the early 80s after Kim died after the KO from Ray Mancini.
 
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I think it would make fights worse. LOADS of fighters would play it safe to have a draw on their records instead of a possible loss.
 
GSP would have ended all of his opponents' lives after they gassed

Finish rate would be 100% in his wins
 
If there is no finish inside the 3 or 5 rounds, then both fighters get a loss to their record and in case of a title fight the belt will be vacated. And none of them will fight next for the title.

Bye bye, silly undefeated records and decision hugger win streaks. I’m in!
 
fries in the bag said:
Let's imagine Dana woke up as a red hot tomato 🍅 one day and said,
"If you go to decision, both you and your opponent loses."

It's still 3 rounds or 5 rounds, not a fight to the death LOL

Would fighters fight better?
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Conan the K-9 said:
If there is no finish inside the 3 or 5 rounds, then both fighters get a loss to their record and in case of a title fight the belt will be vacated. And none of them will fight next for the title.

Bye bye, silly undefeated records and decision hugger win streaks. I’m in!
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Records would essentially be worthless and if the pay structure is dependent on winning, basically people would just stop participating under such stupid rules
 
HHJ said:
Records would essentially be worthless and if the pay structure is dependent on winning, basically people would just stop participating under such stupid rules
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Submission only rule sets are quite popular?

MMA needs to shake that silly undefeated record hype anyway.
 
Conan the K-9 said:
MMA needs to shake that silly undefeated record hype anyway.
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Fairy tales!

The only way to do that is have old school K-1 type tourney structure and let everyone do roids.

You would have to pay guys alot less money too, cos it would not be financially feasible otherwise.

Also the no time limit would completley destroy this premise... actually, so it cant be done ahahahah
 
I don't know about giving both of them a loss, but a draw in that scenario seems more fitting.

Like I remember Pride had a few fights like that with special rules, if it goes to decision it's an automatic draw. First Mirko vs Wanderlei fight was like that, but in that case it was actually a pretty close fight and a draw was a fair result for both.

But I wouldn't go that far, I would however make any fight where 3 judges aren't in unanimous agreement a draw.
 
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