I love older MMA events/rules

[Kinosis]

I was watching a bunch of old MMA fights today (started because I found where Bas Rutten broke down his fights in Japan on his youtube page). I love the old rules. I prefer no time limits but some of these fights had 1 15 minute round (followed by overtime rounds), and it really took it's toll on big musclebound fighters like Mark Coleman (against Maurice Smith for instance). He was almost dead at 7-9 minutes in.

Can you imagine fights today with these types of rounds? Romero would have big trouble without a 1 minute break every 5 minutes. He has cardio issues even with the rounds. I also liked that headbutts and stuff like that was allowed. It completely changed the guard and ground game. Fun times.

 

[Your Account]

yeah ...back in the days...

 

[Reach4theSky]

I love old school mma too!

 

[Fedorgasm]

Knees to the head of a downed opponent and stomps and soccer kicks were so devastating they had to be banned.

Which tells me those are the moves to use in a street fight.

 

[Flex Plexico]

@kikikhan

 

[ANIM4L]

that shit was the tits.

 

[RiotWyatt]

Knees to the head of a downed opponent and stomps and soccer kicks were so devastating they had to be banned.

Which tells me those are the moves to use in a street fight.

 

[Sakuraba7]

It was one 10 min rd followed by two 5 min rds in PRIDE, with the exception of Bushido where it was just one 5 min second rd. The fight was also judged as a whole instead of on points.

It changes the whole dynamic. PRIDE's rules meant you actually had to be active and not just stall or scrape through a rd because you did slightly better and therefore got the point, sometimes repeating it through every rd until the judging. You see this in UFC title fights a lot too. In PRIDE, even the first 10 min rd played a crucial role for grapplers. They wouldn't be broken up every 5 minutes like in the UFC. Even when a fighter was stalling for the first half of the rd, there would usually be action in the second half. Unlike in UFC title fights where often guys feel each other up for the whole 5 min rd until they're broken up, then go to their corners and do it all over again.

PRIDE's rules were practically scientific. You'll often hear some on here pull the "So put DJ in with Cain?" type of fallacies against the idea of openweight fights, as if PRIDE or any promoter can 'force' anyone into a fight (FLW vs HW is not a thing). They also had a rule that if an opponent outweighed another opponent by 30 lbs, the smaller guy had the option to ban stomps and ground kicks to the head. They also had yellow cards which inflicted a 15% fine for anyone stalling.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I watched that fight when it was happening. Joe son kept fighting after the first, second, third, forth, fifth, sixth, etc.

I know nut shots hurt, but they're not as effective at finishing fights as knees to the dome

 

[boingyman]

MMA was much more savage back then for the most part.

 

[A.S. Deep]

I LOVE old school MMA because it was closer to a real fight. Round breaks are beyond artifical, as are gloves, no soccer kicks/stomps/knees to grounded opponents/shots to the back of the head and spine/groin shots/etc.

I wanna see who the better fight is. Not who is the better fighter under rules 1-50.

 

[gono btw]

It was one 10 min rd followed by two 5 min rds in PRIDE, with the exception of Bushido where it was just one 5 min second rd. The fight was also judged as a whole instead of on points.

It changes the whole dynamic. PRIDE's rules meant you actually had to be active and not just stall or scrape through a rd because you did slightly better and therefore got the point, sometimes repeating it through every rd until the judging. You see this in UFC title fights a lot too. In PRIDE, even the first 10 min rd played a crucial role for grapplers. They wouldn't be broken up every 5 minutes like in the UFC. Even when a fighter was stalling for the first half of the rd, there would usually be action in the second half. Unlike in UFC title fights where often guys feel each other up for the whole 5 min rd until they're broken up, then go to their corners and do it all over again.

PRIDE's rules were practically scientific. You'll often hear some on here pull the "So put DJ in with Cain?" type of fallacies against the idea of openweight fights, as if PRIDE or any promoter can 'force' anyone into a fight (FLW vs HW is not a thing). They also had a rule that if an opponent outweighed another opponent by 30 lbs, the smaller guy had the option to ban stomps and ground kicks to the head. They also had yellow cards which inflicted a 15% fine for anyone stalling.

Yellow cards, was actually a 10% fine (depending on normal events or Bushido, They also used Red cards too...which were unlimited)...

The weight difference was either 22lbs or 33 lbs...