5 Round Fights Are Too Long, Here's Proof
Chael Sonnen
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If you could change one rule to make MMA safer, what would it be? Chael's answer will surprise you. He runs through the live debates, oblique kicks, heel hooks, eye pokes and glove design, the 12-6 elbow and Joe Rogan's crusade against the brick-video ban, and lands somewhere unexpected: shorten the fights. Shorter fights are safer fights, by pure logic. Then he tells the wild history of how we got time limits at all: the no-time-limit era, the Shamrock vs. Severn marathon that forced a 30-minute cap shouted to Big John McCarthy mid-fight, and the road to the 25-minute championship standard.
Timestamps:
[0:00] The one-change question: what would you do to make MMA safer?
[0:30] Gloves, eye pokes, and the $100M curved-glove prototype
[1:30] Andy Foster's oblique-kick proposal
[2:24] Elbows, heel hooks, and why they wait until black belt
[3:41] Chael's answer: shorten the duration
[4:28] 1993 tournaments: why fighting three times in one night ended
[5:03] Joe Rogan, 12-to-6 elbows, and the brick-breaking video
[6:11] Where 30 minutes came from: the Shamrock-Severn no-limit fight
[8:36] Boxing's endless rounds and the "feeling out process" myth
[9:41] The fix: shorten the duration, unified rules, 3 vs 5 rounds
This is the most important rules conversation in the sport right now, and nobody tells it like Chael. Subscribe for more.
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I think that championship fights should stay five rounds there is something about showing that extra grit to want to become champion that is appealing as a fan. I think non title main events and co main events should be three rounds because it gets the athletes more time to gradually build themselves to the championship stamina while still preserving their bodies for longer careers not having to compete for five rounds without a title on the line. Anything below the comain event should be one round. You got five minutes to show the audience that you can be a star and earn your way into comain and main event spots where you can showcase yourself longer.
I think it benefits the athletes by allowing them to preserve themselves a little more in training and in competition until you get to title fights. I think it benefits the fans because they have a product that shows how the athletes evolve as they get higher on the card while pushing the athletes to put on more exciting matches with the constrained time allowances.
On a hypothetical level,you attract more casual fans to the earlier fights on the card with the promise of an increased pace and more action which will in turn get those casual fans more familiar with the sport and more familiar with the fighters as they move up the card leading to higher retention rates for returning viewers
Me: 'It's just... one of those things."
5 Round Fights Are Too Long, Here's Proof
Chael Sonnen
35,309 views
If you could change one rule to make MMA safer, what would it be? Chael's answer will surprise you. He runs through the live debates, oblique kicks, heel hooks, eye pokes and glove design, the 12-6 elbow and Joe Rogan's crusade against the brick-video ban, and lands somewhere unexpected: shorten the fights. Shorter fights are safer fights, by pure logic. Then he tells the wild history of how we got time limits at all: the no-time-limit era, the Shamrock vs. Severn marathon that forced a 30-minute cap shouted to Big John McCarthy mid-fight, and the road to the 25-minute championship standard.
Timestamps:
[0:00] The one-change question: what would you do to make MMA safer?
[0:30] Gloves, eye pokes, and the $100M curved-glove prototype
[1:30] Andy Foster's oblique-kick proposal
[2:24] Elbows, heel hooks, and why they wait until black belt
[3:41] Chael's answer: shorten the duration
[4:28] 1993 tournaments: why fighting three times in one night ended
[5:03] Joe Rogan, 12-to-6 elbows, and the brick-breaking video
[6:11] Where 30 minutes came from: the Shamrock-Severn no-limit fight
[8:36] Boxing's endless rounds and the "feeling out process" myth
[9:41] The fix: shorten the duration, unified rules, 3 vs 5 rounds
This is the most important rules conversation in the sport right now, and nobody tells it like Chael. Subscribe for more.
#MMA #UFCRules #MMASafety