1.) Weight categories (including at HW) 2.) 4oz gloves, mouthguards and groin protectors 3.) Teams to provide advice, motivation, water, tend to injuries etc. 4.) Crowd and video recording, audience of millions or billions (long-term) 5.) 9.14 metre diameter cage rather than an open/random environment 6.) 15-25 minute time limit before three judges make a decision 7.) 1 minute rest breaks on a stool with your team after 5 minute segments of action 8.) Always starts standing up and at a distance, same at the beginning of every segment/round 9.) Teams and officials (referee, doctor) can end the fight against the will of a fighter 10.) Referee to judge and prevent certain attritional tactics (running away, excessive clinching against the fence, negative grappling on the ground) 11.) Referee to judge and penalise fence grabbing, eye pokes or gouging, fish-hooking, collarbone grabbing, throat grabbing or strikes, groin attacks, headbutts, rabbit punches, piledriving, throwing the opponent out of bounds, 12-6 elbows, kicks, knees or stomps to the head of a grounded opponent, biting, hair pulling, grabbing the opponent’s gloves or shorts, small joint manipulation, heel-kicking a kidney, striking just above the kidneys, inserting fingers into orifices or wounds, clawing, pinching or twisting flesh, spitting, vulgar language Anything else?
Yeah MMA is a sport. A pretty fun sport at that. It's not like walking home from the shops and getting ambushed by some 100lbs crackhead and if you don't stick your finger in his eye-socket you're never seeing your kids again But at the same time the only people who make the ''MMA is REAL FIGHTAN unlike boxing'' are generally not worth the time of day so eh. It is what it is For what it's worth, OG UFC and to a degree Pride, were a little closer to REAL FIGHTAN. I love the production values of the UFC but the soul of MMA was lost over a decade over
