Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos When the Association of Boxing Commissions approved several changes to the Unified Rules of MMA during its annual meeting in 2016, it hoped to clarify persistent areas of confusion in judging and officiating. Veteran MMA referee Marc Goddard thinks the influential regulatory body might have fallen short of that goal. “They’re being used in some places and not being used in some places, so it’s kind of muddied the waters even further,” the U.K.-based official told MMAjunkie during a recent interview. “I do feel for people – press, fighters and fans. Sometimes they’re not sure what they’re looking at.” The UFC has tried to make it clearer, of course, taking time during each event broadcast to note whether the rule changes – which include a revised definition of a grounded fighter and the allowance of heel kicks to the kidneys – have been adopted by the state athletic commission overseeing the action.
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Veteran MMA ref Marc Goddard says rule changes have ‘muddied the waters’ – MMA Junkie