Points given for takedown defence will fix this sport

[chimpoehurricane]

MMA can either be the most exciting sport, or the most boring sport of all time. There are times where i rather watch baseball. Those moments are wall n stall situations. This is by far the most boring moment in MMA. Its not even close.

How do we fix it? Easy. Successful TDD should count as a point. If you shoot in on my crotch and i stuff your little peahead under my ball sack, you just embarrassed yourself and should lose points. This alone will stop these wrestling vermins from trying that again. Defence should be awarded. I never buy ufc ppv because of how inconsistent this sport is. I much rather watch a 12 round jab fest in boxing than wall n stall. And im a gsp fan. I have no problem with grappling. But wall n stall is the death of this sport. Aldo won that fight.

I agree. There's times where standups or breaking hugging against the cage are warranted. People can argue its a fight but fans pay money. Nobody wants to see coasting. Leon bless.

 

[chimpoehurricane]

Best thing would be to treat position like grappling where getting into and holding side mount, mount, back control gives you "points" and things like against the wall, guard and half guard are neutral from a positioning stand point. Of course this would require the judges to actually know what they are watching.

That or position means nothing and it's all about damage or sub attempts

Yeah but refs should encourage rules and engagement.

 

[brownbelt86]

Yeah but refs should encourage rules and engagement.

What about what I said doesn't encourage rules or engagement?

 

[chimpoehurricane]

What about what I said doesn't encourage rules or engagement?

I just think that the refs should engage the action. Its sports entertainment.

 

[HHJ]

I feel like you should get points only if you stop all takedowns for that round. Like for example, someone like Khabib might chain 7 takedowns together to get 1, the guy defending shouldn't get 6 points and Khabib 1, but if they shrug off all of them for a round get 1 point. Maybe vise versa, getting someone down no matter how many times only gives 1 point for that round.

Lmao

 

[HHJ]

This. I hate wall n' stall, but implementing this rule could really damage the sport. Fighters that rely on offensive wrestling might decide that it's not worth pursuing out of risk of losing points, so they'll be at a competitive disadvantage against strikers. Next thing you know, MMA just turns into sloppy kickboxing with 4oz gloves.

Don't worry,they never will implement this rule. Cos their not retarded.

 

[Paolo Delutis]

MMA can either be the most exciting sport, or the most boring sport of all time. There are times where i rather watch baseball. Those moments are wall n stall situations. This is by far the most boring moment in MMA. Its not even close.

How do we fix it? Easy. Successful TDD should count as a point. If you shoot in on my crotch and i stuff your little peahead under my ball sack, you just embarrassed yourself and should lose points. This alone will stop these wrestling vermins from trying that again. Defence should be awarded. I never buy ufc ppv because of how inconsistent this sport is. I much rather watch a 12 round jab fest in boxing than wall n stall. And im a gsp fan. I have no problem with grappling. But wall n stall is the death of this sport. Aldo won that fight.

Lmfao...no...

Grappling is part of the sport...

Why reward the guy whos being attacked vs the guy whos attacking? ..

It takes more effort to take someone down then it does to block it...

 

[JustBleed69]

 

[Joolazoo]

Just penalize stalling. If you stall in the same position for 30+ seconds the ref breaks it up immediately.

Fixes the issue and grappling still has a place just will probably only be used in situations where you think you can actually advance your position and do damage instead of it just being a tactic to stall and win a round without taking risk.