ONE Championship ban use of soccer kicks in fights

Katsumi Yamada said:
@Setsuna
Not sure why I couldn't quote ur post but according to Chatri, yes they know.
I found his fb post, there is a reply from Ray Elbe (cyborgs bf) that reads as follows:

Elbe:
Weak! that suplex should be legal. a NC is one thing but not a DQ win...it had an arch and wasn’t a spike. Randleman Fedorish

Chatri:
In our rules meeting before every event, we clearly state that a suplex or any variation of it results in immediate DQ loss.

Elbe:
Chatri Sityodtong that’s the nice thing about owning the event your rules are the only rules that matter
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It would have been nice if they'd communicated it publicly beforehand, like they did when they got rid of soccer kicks. There have been more than a couple suplex finishes in One recently.

Like this one they feature on their website, from 5 months ago.

https://onefc.com/videos/peng-xue-wens-incredible-suplex-knockout/
 
Didn't Lee win with a suplex couple months ago? hm...
 
Yodsanan said:
Didn't Lee win with a suplex couple months ago? hm...
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Yea, there's some speculation that it might be rigged, or that someone protested because it looked bad and that this is for optics. It's a fairly major rule change to bring in without announcing it.
 
Wait...are knees to the head of a grounded fighter still legal?

This happened only last year:

 
Ye
TCE said:
Wait...are knees to the head of a grounded fighter still legal?

This happened only last year:

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Yea they're still legal as are 12-6 elbows.

Overall still a better ruleset than UFC but this suplex ban is fucked.


On a brighter note:

 
Good to know that the fighters knew and Kritsada got his win bonus. Was any explanation given for why the rule was made? Guessing fighter safety as there've been a few brutal suplexes in One over the past couple years and they've been really careful after the weight cut death.

Also, I guess it's just the belly to back/german suplex that's banned then because they're worried about someone breaking a neck? Otherwise you're going to get into some really subjective decisions on what constitutes a high-impact slam and what is a 'suplex'. Would be nice to hear how it's worded when presented to the fighters.
 
I would 100% be on board if the Asian promoters would make
the switch to unified rules since it would be a lot safer and fighters
would have longer careers.
 
Knees on the ground is not even debatable. Fuck I miss that.
 
msm1981 said:
I would 100% be on board if the Asian promoters would make
the switch to unified rules since it would be a lot safer and fighters
would have longer careers.
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Do you have any evidence to support this claim?
 
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