Khalil Rountree Jr's Oblique Kick ........

[Grappling Magic]

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Several different angles of this kick. The top view makes my stomach churn.

 

[Iroh]

All sports have rules to disallow certain things that "aren't very sporting."

In the NFL, one of the rules involves not climbing on your teammates back to try to block a kick/punt. It's sporting to jump as high as YOU can; it's not sporting to climb on your teammates back to get a boost.

In a sport fight, oblique kicking techniques to the knee aren't very sporting.

EDIT: Some put foot stomping in that category, too, but I actually have a soft spot for that because it can dissuade wall-and-stallers.

So there is a rule against climbing on your teammates back in hockey because it's not sporting.

But there aren't any rules against oblique kicks... so wouldn't that make it sporting?

 

[HHJ]

Sure you don't. You've definitely bitched about his kicks in the past, you seem like that type of two faced shit-wipe.

Find one post when i did

 

[wearetheromans]

This sport,ill take being low class to not get knocked the fuck out myself. I'll live with some forum members being mad.

If we can STOP pretending sports where you throw and catch balls to full contact fighting are the same,the better off we will all be.

Why are there no headbutts, groin strikes, eye gouges,, biting, fish hooking etc?

Like it or not MMA has rules

 

[Jeandoozz]

people are mad with this technique : it's legal and some fighters use it all the time, still "career ending injuries" never happen... yes, sometimes you hurt your opponent, and sometimes you have a freak injury like this, but no more so than with leg kicks... And let me tell you something : this move is the bread and butter of "savate", i trained savate more than ten years in 3 different gyms where we use it all the time in sparing and i NEveR see any injury from it (ok savate is often point fighting and you learn to control your strikes but still, you can also go hard, and there are also ko savate competions, where nobody lose their knees everytime...

 

[Iroh]

Sure you don't. You've definitely bitched about his kicks in the past, you seem like that type of two faced shit-wipe.

Nah. I'm in the same boat as him. Don't like him for his eye pokes and somewhat the PEDs, but mainly just the eye pokes. Don't care about the oblique kicks.

 

[HHJ]

Like it or not MMA has rules

Yes,and he broke 0 of them.

 

[Black Paladin]

This sport,ill take being low class to not get knocked the fuck out myself. I'll live with some forum members being mad.

If we can STOP pretending sports where you throw and catch balls to full contact fighting are the same,the better off we will all be.

The sports aren't the same--the PRINCIPLES of sporting competition have been the same for tens of thousands of years.

 

[HHJ]

I love how people bring up banned moves to plead their case. This move isnt banned. So people train to do them.

 

[TheBulge]

Find one post when i did

Yeah I'm gonna sit through sherdog's archives to find one of your shitty 106K posts. One sec.

 

[HHJ]

The sports aren't the same--the PRINCIPLES of sporting competition have been the same for tens of thousands of years.

You cant compare fighting to throwing balls around. Its just not the same thing.

 

[wearetheromans]

Yes,and he broke 0 of them.

Who wants to see fighters get wiped out for a year or even careers over for a dinky little kick to the side of the knee?

Yes it's an effective technique but who wants to watch fights end like that?

 

[HHJ]

Yeah I'm gonna sit through sherdog's archives to find one of your shitty 106K posts.

Sounds like an excuse to lie with impunity,my darling.

 

[Black Paladin]

But it works, it's legal and finishes fights.

I'm all for it, the less rules the better. It's an MMA fight, knees to the grounded opponent should 1000% be legal.

With it not, is a fucking shitty rule by a commission, now every state abides by it.

I think soccer kicks are fine, knees to grounded opponents are fine, etc.

Oblique knee attacks? Not so much.

 

[NoSmilez]

It's one of those live by sword things. If anything bad ever happens to Khalil; I am not going to bitch about it. His opponent is definitely getting cut from the UFC. I hope they cover his knee injury since it happened in the cage.

 

[PicoPulse]

That was a perfect technique used at the perfect moment im glad I got to see it and hope for a good recovery
Hats off to Khalil

 

[HHJ]

Who wants to see fighters get wiped out for a year or even careers over for a dinky little kick to the side of the knee?

Yes it's an effective technique but who wants to watch fights end like that?

I mean,if you dont want to see it,he shouldnt do it?

 

[Iroh]

Who wants to see fighters get wiped out for a year or even careers over for a dinky little kick to the side of the knee?

Yes it's an effective technique but who wants to watch fights end like that?

How can it be a dinky little kick if it fucks him up that badly? It's a brutally effective, perfectly timed and executed technique.

 

[Black Paladin]

Who wants to see fighters get wiped out for a year or even careers over for a dinky little kick to the side of the knee?

Yes it's an effective technique but who wants to watch fights end like that?

Exactly.

I want as few rules as possible, but there ARE some rules, because this is a SPORT.

 

[TCE]

You cant compare fighting to throwing balls around. Its just not the same thing.

If they was ever around when PRIDE was around, our era. They'd be having legit strokes and heart attacks watching the great Sakuraba and Wanderlei back in their day.