Why are upkicks illegal

[Trabaho]

Ufc isn't real fighting.

Pussy rules

Then go beat them if you're tough

 

[snotflakes]

You see guys leg pressing 3,000 lbs . You don't want that kick coming with a wall of resistance behind it.

#notserious

Yes, yes we do.

 

[Romulas]

CTE and US athletic commission sanctioning. Need to draw lines for limiting severe damage. Rule is broadly no kicks to head of downed fighter. Off your back, standing or kneeling.

CTE wasn't even a thing when this rule was put into place.

 

[Luthien]

The legacy of that monster, Big John, still plagues MMA

 

[spinitch]

CTE wasn't even a thing when this rule was put into place.

Good point , it was likely symbolic for AC commissions. John McCain called MMA human cockfighting. Now CTE is a risk so would make it harder to eliminate this rule. Still stuck with stupid 10 point round scoring due to pretending to be like boxing from oldy days.

 

[ejazahmednit]

Upkicks aren't illegal, knees and kicks to downed opponents are

 

[JBJ was here]

Upkicks to the head of an opponent on their knee(s) are illegal rather than being separated out from other kicks and knees to the head of a grounded opponent not because the upkicks themselves are so terrible but because if they were legal then any fighter in position to take such an upkick and with above room-temperature fight IQ would have to be so busy defending the upkick with their hands that they couldn't engage on the ground, and that would make for unwatchable fighting. In the early days of MMA even "elite" fighters mostly had no fight IQ, so this didn't matter so much, but today it would be truly awful to watch. Almost no one would posture up for G&P, no one would jump into an opponent's guard, and when fighters ended up in the kind of position where upkicks to the head could happen it would be like watching a slapfight until the ref stood them up.

 

[AMAZINGUFC]

Guy on the bottom already is on the wrong side of gravity. Make upkicks legal. No sense in prohibiting them. What is the point. It's natural.

Ridiculous rule.

We never tire of criticizing this here.

Instead of the UFC solving this, these scoundrels were more concerned with releasing the 12-6 elbows for Jones to face Miocic... garbage...