I love MMA, this is my favorate sport in fact. But I still think that there is no need to destroy the face of the athletes the way they are destroted nowdays. There is no need to become this sport in a blood feast and to have all the athletes with the caulliflower ear when most of the money is going the fertitas brothers ( each PPV event averages $30 million in revenue) and dana white (150 millions net worth) with not even one scratch in their faces.
Does any one here wants to see football/nhl player playing without the hemlet and the rest of the safety gear, or boxer without gloves. Is there any other sport where you can see so much blood in each event?
This is what I think:
Elbows should be padded to avoid the sharp edge of the olecranum cutting through the skin as a knife.
Ear safety gear should be mandatory to avoid cauliflour ears.
Front kicks to the knee (like the one used by jon jones to rampage) to tear the knee posterior cruciate ligament should be banned.
Fight should be stop as soon as the referee see the danger of killer KO, there is no point seeing some one like Brian Stan having to stop the fight himself because the referee was waiting for the killing. (an outside referee with a whistle coud be used as support to the referee inside)
I also believe that fighers who run a lot should be penalized for not engaging,( I do want action but not a bloody feast)
I know I should have said MMA but the UFC is the largest Mixed Martial Arts promotion company in the world.