Is exchanging bodily fluids with your opponent an allowed strategy?

[Bearknuckle]

Another thing is can female mma fighters squirt on their opponents when in north south position. Its not peeing, so ive heard.

 

[Safton]

Man you’re a gold mine, that’s a really interesting situation.

I have to say though that I do think we can parse out why that would be different. You could argue that groin strikes are illegal, therefore by extension it becomes illegal to strike with your groin as you would then be forcing an illegal strike. Similar to not allowing a fighter to force an opponents fingers into their eye.

I didn't really think of it that way, but that's potentially supportable. Here's the wording:

11. Groin attacks of any kind: Any attack to the groin area including, striking, grabbing, pinching or twisting is illegal. It should be clear that groin attacks are the same for men and women.

If we take the title of the section at face value of "no groin attacks of any kind", then yeah 100% what Mayes was doing is illegal. But the subtext dictates an attack to the groin area. I don't know if stating that you're endangering one of your own protected zones is necessarily legitimate, as fighters often "exploit" the grounded fighter rule by placing their head into precarious positions. Or they try to stay alive in the face of punishment by turning away from strikes to cause them to land on the back of their head. I know, these aren't quite the same thing, but in theory neither of these should necessarily abrogate their protection nor are they punishable.

I guess it comes down to how one interprets the wording in play. I think you could probably make a case in either direction... but it's probably for the best that the precedent has been set against this particular, uh, technique and that most refs would probably do the same in that situation lmao

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

^ Fuck that was epic

Thanks for the memory trip

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

Very possible, yeah. Though there are 100% blind spots in the rules if I'm being honest. The one I always come back to that made me go "...Huh. Never thought of that" is when Don'Tale Mayes took Josh Parisian down, got on top of him, and put him in north-south before delivering a series of... pretty vigorous pelvic thrusts to his head. Josh (understandably) freaked the fuck out on bottom and looked to the ref, who was equal parts confused and dismayed and told Mayes to stop without really giving a reason as to why. It was super awkward, but I'm not sure if this is actually against the Rules and if so under what grounds. I mean it's not a kick or a knee to a grounded opponent, but it's arguably worse lmao

And it's possible that Mayes was legitimately causing real damage (and not just the emotional kind) with those pelvic thrusts, too. A lot of fighters wear steel cups into the cage. When you're talking about a big, 250+ pound guy like Mayes putting a significant portion of his body weight and core strength behind each thrust of said cup and jackhammering downward against a dude whose head is pinned between him the mat... not pleasant to think about.



Nothing explicitly bans tickling, though if a ref really wanted to get onto you about it this is the closest rule I could find:



The spirit of this rule is clearly to keep someone from raking at their opponent's flesh with their nails or giving them the ole Indian sunburn or something (which is a hilarious mental image unto itself, mind you). But I guess if a ref wanted to interpret it in such a way as to discourage aggressive or painful tickling they maybe could. Not to mention the blanket bans on unsportsmanlike conduct and not following a ref's instructions.

 

[Adamant]

We saw Luke Rockhold pin Costa down and smear his bloody nose all over his face

One of the greatest things I've ever seen in UFC and instantly made me a Rockhold fan.

 

[WalterSobchak]

I masterbate ALOT and I’m happy to share that shit with my Sherbros. I dont have an onlyfans but listen I will vac pack my shit and mail it as needed. The good thing is that I have a steady supply.

 

[AmonTobin]

I think if your body fluids are you’re only way to get an edge you’re probably losing the fight.