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    Elbows

    Zuffa buys Strikeforce and before the ink on the contract dry's they shove the ground elbows in to the rules book of Strikeforce fights.

    1- Dana White says he likes exciting fights and lay and pray is not gonna win anybody any fans. Try's to deny title shots to un-exciting fighters and publicly says how he feels bad when a fight gets stopped due to cuts.

    2-Commentators always make these "ahhhh, owwww, nooo" remarks, when a fighter is cut bad and the doctor is looking to stop the fight. Most of them pray to god, out loud, that the referee or the doctor does not stop the fight, although it is for the best of the fighter.

    3-More than half of the mma community does now want to accept Fedor's early defeat since, it was due to a cut. He did not really lose that fight....

    4-People hate to see their favorite fighter get to a position where they have some much scar tissue on their face that they cut and can't perform to their ability for the crowd.

    5- MMA is demonized as the blood sport, although majority of the technical moves does not involve spilling the blood of the opponent except elbows.

    6- There are some fighters out there who are pride themselves with how they are so great at cutting the opponent.

    7-Short elbows from the ground prevent a lot of the stand ups and increases the lay and pray abilities of the wrestlers which is hated by everyone except the wrestlers themselves.

    Why does Zuffa rush in with the elbows, if the statements above are true?
    Do they secretly like the fact that MMA is turning in to wrestlers elbowing others in the face?

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    Most kickboxers don't specialize in elbows.

    Personally, though, I'd love to start seeing this shiz.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vVH1Rmpv3g

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    We had Cyrus Washington, a pro fighter out Thailand fighting out of Phuket Top Team used to fight out Tiger Muay Thai, in for a seminar and all but one of the elbow techs were for knocking people out not cutting. Cuts happen as a result but in Thailand they dont stop fights for cuts only win is by knockout or TKO. I think its fine.

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    Cyrus Washington is the freaking man. Special athlete right there. I've always loved elbows.


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    yea, i don't think i love seeing anything more than a good elbow

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiko View Post
    Cyrus Washington is the freaking man. Special athlete right there. I've always loved elbows.

    He was super mellow. Scary how some fighter make that change come fight time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiko View Post
    Cyrus Washington is the freaking man. Special athlete right there. I've always loved elbows.




    what does this mean?

    Droppin bows on them?? what does this mean

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    Bows = drop elbows + a dirty south accent/slang

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    Standing elbow strikes good:-)

    Ground and Pound elbows bad:-(

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    Good post OP. I'm in favor of eliminating elbows on the ground and introducing yellow cards for stalling, I believe if Zuffa made these changes we'd see a lot better fights. They should change the rules for grounded knees as well

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