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UFC Should Ban Foot Stomps

Posted By: Bruno Published in Fighter Talk

Aug

Foot Stomp

I am satisfied with most of the fighting rules used by the UFC. Probably the only rule change I would make for UFC fights would be the elimination of foot stomps.

Foot stomps show no real skill from a fighter. You usually learn how to do them at the age of 4. In a fight they aggravate a fighter and on rare occasions can help you get a better position.

My big beef is that during the fight you don’t feel them that much and they don’t really make a difference on who wins the fight. After the fight is a different story though. Your feet can ache for weeks and it can keep a fighter from starting back into their training routine. Over the years your feet take a pounding from training and you are useless when your feet go bad.

Repeatedly broken feet had help speed the end for a fighter. One of my training partners has called it quits after the third time his foot was broken in a fight. I think its time to just put an end to foot stomps and move on.

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marcus

Says, in 9-1-2007 at 08:02:18 from 90.192.177.15

I think foot stomps are just as good at distracting as dirty boxing, short knees and shoulder strikes in a clinch.
Broken noses, cheek bones, eye sockets and jaws are a common occurrence for fighters which also prevents them from sparring for weeks/months….should they band face strikes also???
The fighters know the risk of injuries and have plenty of time to heal, recover and regain fitness between fights.

Maybe they could become ‘unsporting like’ instead, but not illegal.

i halpern

Says, in 9-1-2007 at 15:08:10 from 71.175.31.244

this should be banned, as a tactic that does not require much training, and which can be a career-ender, I urge those in a position to make this tactic unacceptable in a MMA match.

Rick

Says, in 9-5-2007 at 09:38:31 from 75.161.40.38

Doesn’t require much training? How much training does it require to throw a shoulder strike in a clinch? I’m pretty sure you could probably teach a monkey to do that. Ankle locks don’t hurt bad enough to make you tap out and 90 percent of the time, can’t break anything but anyone who has ever been put in a good foot lock will tell you how it aches for weeks….. should those be banned too?

You don’t ban moves in UFC because they hurt. You ban them when they are potentially fatal like downward elbow strikes, hitting to the back of the head, fish hooking, striking a downed oppenent, ect, ect.

Foot stomps should stay.

Tom

Says, in 11-8-2007 at 02:02:21 from 76.247.245.18

Seriously, you know how many accidental foot stomps there are? Should they stop so a doctor can look at your foot because it got stomped? Punches to the head can make a fighter become mentally challenged. A broken rib can puncture organs. When a fighter fights, he knows whats at stake.

nagant

Says, in 4-4-2008 at 04:32:09 from 146.201.174.98

rick, just wanted to tell you that you are 100% ignorant about ankle locks.

WAR

Says, in 4-16-2008 at 00:29:31 from 24.118.199.116

thats not what he was saying the don’t hurt in the fight at all but a day or so later your foot starts to get big and red, you can’t walk at all trust me i have had my fair share of foot stomps and the suck but unlike strikes to the head the don’t actuly hurt till much later in the day so unless you fight for a good 9 hours there just dumb and a waste of time

ADAM

Says, in 4-27-2008 at 19:08:23 from 67.39.21.79

ankle locks will make you tap and can break your knee lol, and the one dude said that fishhooks are potentially lethal?lol….knees on the ground and stomps are illegal so i think intentional foot stomps should also be illegal,cause they are stupid