BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Point Deduction https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 ABC to recommend new MMA language for downed fighters https://www.badmma.com/abc-to-recommend-new-mma-language-for-downed-fighters.html https://www.badmma.com/abc-to-recommend-new-mma-language-for-downed-fighters.html#comments Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:05:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/abc-to-recommend-new-mma-language-for-downed-fighters.html The concept of what constitutes a downed fighter could change following this week’s meeting of the Association of Boxing Commissions, which oversees MMA’s regulatory bodies. Commission representatives Nick Lembo (New Jersey), Bernie Profato (Ohio) and Keith Kizer (Nevada), who represent some of MMA’s busiest and most prominent regulatory bodies, will present their plan at Wednesday’s ABC meeting in San Antonio. Lembo will argue their case, in which the regulators want referees to instruct fighters that placing a finger tip on the canvas won’t necessarily make them a downed fighter. In recent years, many standing fighters have taken advantage of the current language used in the Unified Rules of MMA. That helps them avoid knees or kicks to the head, or possibly put their opponent in danger of a warning or point deduction.

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ABC to recommend new MMA language for downed fighters – MMA Junkie

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