Illegal kick or knee to head

[dikowt dowg]

A grounded fighter can't be kicked or kneed in the head. I like the rule. I don't like it applied when a fighter is using the rule to keep from getting kicked or taking a knee to the head....like Sterling was. Stirling was going to the grounded position on purpose.

 

[dikowt dowg]

The wording of the rule and the rule’s intent has not changed, but the way the rule is interpreted and enforced has.

“The rule is really the same,” said Ratner. “The interpretation that we’ve come up with, with the Association of Boxing Commissions, which should be called the Association of Combat Commissions – they should change that – but the spirit of the rule has been violated by a lot of fighters.

“Obviously if you’re downed and you have a hand on the deck, and you have three points there and you get kicked or kneed, that’s a foul,” he said. “But we have fighters now who are putting their hand down, bringing it up, putting it back down again.

“I call it, if you’re talking basketball, trying to draw the foul. They’re hoping that the referee will see it and call a foul and maybe disqualify the other guy,” added Ratner. “So we’re telling the referees before the fights, go into the dressing rooms and say, ‘look, if you do this you’re doing it at your own peril and in my judgment as a referee, if you’re doing it, I’m going to call it legal.’”

It is now up to the referee’s discretion whether or not a kick or knee to a “downed” fighter is illegal.

“It’s a judgment call,” said Ratner.

 

[dikowt dowg]

Now....Sterling wasn't baiting Yan, but he was obviously using the grounding rule as a crutch to get a break from taking an ass whooping,.

 

[dikowt dowg]

All of that said, Yan admitted it was an illegal knee and isn't crying about the result at all. Good for him.

 

[OregonDucks]

Easy rematch that will bring $.

 

[dikowt dowg]

Déjà vu at UFC Fight Night 187 as illegal knee stops fight for second consecutive week

Again!? This time it was Eryk Anders vs. Darren Stewart being ruled a no contest.

mmajunkie.usatoday.com

So another illegal knee to the head. This time it does NOT result in a win for the fighter taking the knee. And the explanation is:

So why was the fight declared a no content and not a disqualification? According to UFC vice president of regulatory affairs Marc Ratner, the difference between Sterling-Yan and Stewart-Anders was simply the referee’s ruling of the knee itself.

During the UFC 259 title fight between Sterling and Yan, referee Mark Smith deemed the fight-ending blow intentional – causing it to be ruled a disqualification. On Saturday, referee Herb Dean declared Anders’ knee unintentional.

“It’s a referee judgment. That’s the bottom line,” Ratner said backstage at the UFC Apex. “It’s up to him, and if he reads intent into it, and there’s this foul that stops the fight, then he can call it intentional. It’s the referee’s decision.”

If the fight had already hit the third round, the bout would’ve gone to the judges’ scorecards. However, the fight-ending blow took place midway through Round 1, so a no contest was the right call, according to Ratner.


I still think sterling has been gifted a belt undeservingly.

 

[Hitman Hart]

Déjà vu at UFC Fight Night 187 as illegal knee stops fight for second consecutive week

Again!? This time it was Eryk Anders vs. Darren Stewart being ruled a no contest.

mmajunkie.usatoday.com

So another illegal knee to the head. This time it does NOT result in a win for the fighter taking the knee. And the explanation is:

So why was the fight declared a no content and not a disqualification? According to UFC vice president of regulatory affairs Marc Ratner, the difference between Sterling-Yan and Stewart-Anders was simply the referee’s ruling of the knee itself.

During the UFC 259 title fight between Sterling and Yan, referee Mark Smith deemed the fight-ending blow intentional – causing it to be ruled a disqualification. On Saturday, referee Herb Dean declared Anders’ knee unintentional.

“It’s a referee judgment. That’s the bottom line,” Ratner said backstage at the UFC Apex. “It’s up to him, and if he reads intent into it, and there’s this foul that stops the fight, then he can call it intentional. It’s the referee’s decision.”

If the fight had already hit the third round, the bout would’ve gone to the judges’ scorecards. However, the fight-ending blow took place midway through Round 1, so a no contest was the right call, according to Ratner.


I still think sterling has been gifted a belt undeservingly.

You shouldn't be able to win a belt via disqualification. The champion should just be stripped of the belt.

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

That rule is why Pride was some much better than UFC. Shogun Rua and Wanderlei Silva's fights against Rampage Jackson were epic, and kicks and knees to the head of a downed opponent were a big reason why.