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News No foot stomps allowed at UFC 315

SuperNerd said:
Wait till you guys find out about Quebec's actual MMA rules, or as they call it, "Mixed Boxing"
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Mixed Boxing is the best base for MMA

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Leonard Haid said:
As if foot stomps have ever in the history if the UFC factored into the outcome of a fight. Or have they? Anyone recall any fight-changing foot stomps?
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I think this, every fighter has dismissed them, but it would look dumb AF the day a fight gets stopped as a consequence.
 
Highly unlikely to change the complexion of any fight but still a weird restriction.
 
I heard in another industry leading rule change the Quebec commission are also insisting every fighter come with a pedicure and mandatory french tips
 
People crying in here as if they banned elbows or striking all together.
 
I suppose I can weigh in here since I was around when the foot stomp in Quebec was banned and why.

I don't know if Yves Lavigne still reads/posts here but he can back my story up as he was instrumental in getting MMA going in Quebec and many don't realize that without Yves we may not have MMA as we know it today.

Way back in the day (Late 90s/2000s) MMA was illegal in Canada under Federal law, and events that were allowed could only be sanctioned by the Provincial Athletic Commissions, who for the most part wanted nothing to do with it.

This was why many of the original events were held on First Nations Land who stated that they had jurisdiction on their ancestral land and the Feds didn't really want to get into it so they let it happen.

Quebec however was one of the few Provinces who decided to oversee and actually allow MMA to happen but for that to occur they deemed MMA to actually be "Mixed Boxing" which allowed for the majority of the techniques to happen.

Stephan Patry was one of the first promotors to be large enough to start an event overseen by the Quebec Athletic Commission. (QAC) You might know that name as the guy who first brought guys like Georges St. Pierre to the UFC along with a ton of other guys. That event was originally called UCC and then became TKO before if faded away.

The Mixed Boxing label was the only thing that the QAC would allow MMA to happen under and so the rules/techniques were altered just enough to comply with the QAC's boxing regulations.

Now there were huge rivalries between many Quebec gyms and Ontario gyms and since the Province of Ontario's Athletic commission (OAC) refused to sanction MMA, everyone went to Quebec to fight, making the QAC leading the way for MMA in Canada at the time.

One of those Ontario gyms that travelled to Quebec was a young team of guys under a trainer named "Shawn Tompkins" (R.I.P.) my first MMA/Kickboxing coach. One of Shawn's fighters and gym coaches was a guy named Alex "Pecker" Gasson. (Alex, I believe is actually now a member of the Ontario Athletic Commission)

Pecker was a hallmark of that early Tompkins' style fighter, cardio that never died, no quit, kickboxing based wrestling style.

During one of Pecker's fights he kept getting caught in the clinch pinning his opponent against the fence but his opponent kept tying up his arms and Pecker couldn't get any strikes going so Pecker decided to pull the Marco Ruas foot stomps out and literally began to crush his opponent's feet every chance he got and won that fight based on the stomps alone.

That guy's feet were so disgusting looking and damaged after that fight that the QAC banned the move and stated it wasn't really conducive the Mixed Boxing sanctioning and it's been that way ever since.
 
Could help Aldo I suppose, as thats all that anyone ever does to him is try to hold him against the fence and do these knee too knee strikes and foot stomps. "New breed" absoutley hopeless when its an actual fight with skill, just holding on for dear life gameplans.
 
You are welcome. Modern MMA as we know it isn't really an old sport in North America but it's weird sometimes how history gets lost. I guess us old guys have some uses, even if it's just to somewhat remember how it all went down. ;)
 
so, not to hijack the thread, but - we should get a poll going for which fighter employed foot stomps the most in his career. my vote goes to chris leben.
 
TheRealDougie said:
I suppose I can weigh in here since I was around when the foot stomp in Quebec was banned and why.

I don't know if Yves Lavigne still reads/posts here but he can back my story up as he was instrumental in getting MMA going in Quebec and many don't realize that without Yves we may not have MMA as we know it today.

Way back in the day (Late 90s/2000s) MMA was illegal in Canada under Federal law, and events that were allowed could only be sanctioned by the Provincial Athletic Commissions, who for the most part wanted nothing to do with it.

This was why many of the original events were held on First Nations Land who stated that they had jurisdiction on their ancestral land and the Feds didn't really want to get into it so they let it happen.

Quebec however was one of the few Provinces who decided to oversee and actually allow MMA to happen but for that to occur they deemed MMA to actually be "Mixed Boxing" which allowed for the majority of the techniques to happen.

Stephan Patry was one of the first promotors to be large enough to start an event overseen by the Quebec Athletic Commission. (QAC) You might know that name as the guy who first brought guys like Georges St. Pierre to the UFC along with a ton of other guys. That event was originally called UCC and then became TKO before if faded away.

The Mixed Boxing label was the only thing that the QAC would allow MMA to happen under and so the rules/techniques were altered just enough to comply with the QAC's boxing regulations.

Now there were huge rivalries between many Quebec gyms and Ontario gyms and since the Province of Ontario's Athletic commission (OAC) refused to sanction MMA, everyone went to Quebec to fight, making the QAC leading the way for MMA in Canada at the time.

One of those Ontario gyms that travelled to Quebec was a young team of guys under a trainer named "Shawn Tompkins" (R.I.P.) my first MMA/Kickboxing coach. One of Shawn's fighters and gym coaches was a guy named Alex "Pecker" Gasson. (Alex, I believe is actually now a member of the Ontario Athletic Commission)

Pecker was a hallmark of that early Tompkins' style fighter, cardio that never died, no quit, kickboxing based wrestling style.

During one of Pecker's fights he kept getting caught in the clinch pinning his opponent against the fence but his opponent kept tying up his arms and Pecker couldn't get any strikes going so Pecker decided to pull the Marco Ruas foot stomps out and literally began to crush his opponent's feet every chance he got and won that fight based on the stomps alone.

That guy's feet were so disgusting looking and damaged after that fight that the QAC banned the move and stated it wasn't really conducive the Mixed Boxing sanctioning and it's been that way ever since.
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Thank you for posting that.

So kinda like the Canadian 12-6 elbows.
 
TheRealDougie said:
I suppose I can weigh in here since I was around when the foot stomp in Quebec was banned and why.

I don't know if Yves Lavigne still reads/posts here but he can back my story up as he was instrumental in getting MMA going in Quebec and many don't realize that without Yves we may not have MMA as we know it today.

Way back in the day (Late 90s/2000s) MMA was illegal in Canada under Federal law, and events that were allowed could only be sanctioned by the Provincial Athletic Commissions, who for the most part wanted nothing to do with it.

This was why many of the original events were held on First Nations Land who stated that they had jurisdiction on their ancestral land and the Feds didn't really want to get into it so they let it happen.

Quebec however was one of the few Provinces who decided to oversee and actually allow MMA to happen but for that to occur they deemed MMA to actually be "Mixed Boxing" which allowed for the majority of the techniques to happen.

Stephan Patry was one of the first promotors to be large enough to start an event overseen by the Quebec Athletic Commission. (QAC) You might know that name as the guy who first brought guys like Georges St. Pierre to the UFC along with a ton of other guys. That event was originally called UCC and then became TKO before if faded away.

The Mixed Boxing label was the only thing that the QAC would allow MMA to happen under and so the rules/techniques were altered just enough to comply with the QAC's boxing regulations.

Now there were huge rivalries between many Quebec gyms and Ontario gyms and since the Province of Ontario's Athletic commission (OAC) refused to sanction MMA, everyone went to Quebec to fight, making the QAC leading the way for MMA in Canada at the time.

One of those Ontario gyms that travelled to Quebec was a young team of guys under a trainer named "Shawn Tompkins" (R.I.P.) my first MMA/Kickboxing coach. One of Shawn's fighters and gym coaches was a guy named Alex "Pecker" Gasson. (Alex, I believe is actually now a member of the Ontario Athletic Commission)

Pecker was a hallmark of that early Tompkins' style fighter, cardio that never died, no quit, kickboxing based wrestling style.

During one of Pecker's fights he kept getting caught in the clinch pinning his opponent against the fence but his opponent kept tying up his arms and Pecker couldn't get any strikes going so Pecker decided to pull the Marco Ruas foot stomps out and literally began to crush his opponent's feet every chance he got and won that fight based on the stomps alone.

That guy's feet were so disgusting looking and damaged after that fight that the QAC banned the move and stated it wasn't really conducive the Mixed Boxing sanctioning and it's been that way ever since.
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I love getting a little gem like this on the forum from a hibernating lurker account.
 
If you are down on the scorecards just get dq’ed via foot stomps to save face
 
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