Originally Posted by
The Kraken
3 extremities have to be touching the max for the knee to be illegal, correct?
If that's the case, Sonnen would had to have had at least one hand on the mat when the knee landed to make it illegal.
I didn't see the fight so I'm not sure how it played out.
I remember in one of Kongos fight, the other fighter kept putting a hand on the mat just before Kongo would knee him. The ref actually stopped the fight and warned the other guy to "quit playing the game". But it was clear the knee wasn't illegal on a downed opponed until the hand was on the mat.