Which fighters would benefit the most from headbutts?

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superpunch said:
Wrestlers and short strikers have been very unfairly treated by the rules in modern MMA.

Taller strikers are allowed to knee to the head in the clinch, and the shorter striker doesn't have any legal, damage spamming hammer weapons like that. The rules are unnaturally designed to be against the shorter fighter here.

In NHB striking like lethwei, the shorter striker is able to use headbutts in the clinch, which taller fighters generally can not do. It evens things out.

Wrestlers could obviously just lay comfortably in the guard without having to advance position or do anything to open themselves up to being swept or submitted, and headbutt their way to TKOs.

Here are 3 guys I think would do very well with headbutts:

1) Mark Hunt -- He's a great striker but sucks in the clinch because he's 5'10". Werdum, for example, kneed Hunt to the death like the midget he is. Imagine Mark Hunt, with his big head situated on 5'10" shoulders, just the perfect height to slam 6'4" guys jaws with his forehead..

2) Brock Lesnar -- I don't think this needs any explanation.

3) Daniel Cormier -- This one is a wild card. But he's great at getting into the clinch and controlling them there; he just can't do much with it other than dirty boxing because he's so short. He KOd Stipe there. In later fights, he got Stipe into the same clinch multiple times per round, just didn't land that KO shot. Imagine if he could headbutt in the clinch.. This is a wild card for me because Cormier also has a small frame and thin bones compared to other LHWs and HWs he fights; it's possible that headbutts would result in doing more damage to himself.
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Rules give the most disadvantage to strikers not wrestlers or grapplers. Most of the techniques that are illegal are strikes. Like knees and kicks to downed opponent, upkicks, strikes to the back of the head, 12-6 elbows, headbuts, strikes to the throat, etc. It's not wrestling/grappling moves that are primarily banned, it's striking moves.
 
FIghtxIQ said:
Rules give the most disadvantage to strikers not wrestlers or grapplers. Most of the techniques that are illegal are strikes. Like knees and kicks to downed opponent, upkicks, strikes to the back of the head, 12-6 elbows, headbuts, strikes to the throat, etc. It's not wrestling/grappling moves that are primarily banned, it's striking moves.
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Fuckin hell. I was getting ready to say pretty much this with a bit more hostility. Thanks for saving me the trouble.
 
Khabib, Colby, Romero, Figereido, Gaethje, Lewis, Gillespie, Costa, Zabit, Dober, Thiago Alves, Buckley.
 
Usman, he could just hold people on the fence and headbutt the shit out of them instead of those lousy foot stomps
 
Darren Elkins.

Dude seems to have a hard ass head and not too many brain cells left to lose. His style whether striking or grappling seems to revolve around crashing the pocket so sneaking in a headbutt would only deepen his entry game. Factor in the fact his name is the damage and doesn't mind seeing his own blood and damn you might have a completely reinvigorated career with the new rule change.
 
Fence / chain wrestlers like Khabib and COlby who use their heads as part of their leverage arsenal. Similar wrestlers like Kamaru. Pressure fighters like Glover / RDA. Then, I can think of a Chiesa, who loves to push guys to the fence before taking them down.
DC, who also uses the fence quite well and has that phoneboth type of dirty boxing and clinching, and who tends to be smaller than his apanyents.
 
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