There's no pants in MMA!
by Zak Woods on Feb 23, 2010 3:00 PM EST
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(These ladies know what it takes to be a fighter. No pants!!!)
For a sport that critics believe is nothing more than an exercise in bloodlust for an uneducated crowd of meatheads there are certainly a lot of controversies over attire--almost as many as ice dancing.
The latest flare up concerns George Sotiropoulos and his choice of attire at UFC 110. George wore normal shorts with compression shorts underneath then knee sleeves and ankle sleeves. Essentially 80% of Sotiropoulos' legs were covered and under the Unified Rules pants, more specifically grappling pants, are a illegal. Commissions have even gone so far as to ban shorts with "no slip" properties.
Did George break the rules by wearing a combination of legal attire that essentially creates pants without actually wearing pants?
Keith Kizer of the NSAC says that Sotiropoulos' outfit was kosher and that members of a fighter's camp are present with the power to object when the commission and referee check attire before a fight. But looking at pictures from UFC 110 it seems that the combination of sleeves and shorts may not be in the spirit of the rules.
Decide for yourself and vote!
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He wore the same thing @ 106 and his attire was approved by the NSAC then. Its only because he had a win over a big name that people are making a big deal about it…
Is the reason there is a no-pants rule because the opponent is not allowed to grab the pants (shorts), and covering up too much of the legs makes that too difficult?
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Pants should be legal to begin with
according to Fitch the guard is dead, letting ground fighters use pants is just leveling the playing field.
"It’s going to be like sex with a grizzly bear, you know, a lot of scratching and growling on both sides." - Don Frye
Pants on the ground, pants on the ground
Joe Daddy lookin like a fool with George’s pants on the ground!
Hadoken!!
by Brizzle T on Feb 23, 2010 6:49 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Well on the bright side, george’s heterosexuality forbade him from wearing the rainbow color tights that aoki wears. So, don’t mind.
While it is against the “spirit” of the rule I dont feel that it is actually breaking the rule. Somthing I would like to note, Wes Sims had knee braces on before his fight with bobby lashley and was made to remove them before entering the cage (too which he was none to happy about!). I thought at the time it was the ref that made him but now it sounds like it could have been a member of lashleys camp that objected? If thats all it takes I could see someone objecting to Georges attire in the future.
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