Joe Rogan want to see a change within the MMA ruleset.
The UFC commentator and podcaster thinks grapplers are at a drawback as a result of deadlines in rounds trigger them to lose place. MMA fights are both three, five-minute rounds or 5, five-minute rounds.
Rogan thinks when you get taken down in a battle, it’s important to discover a solution to get again up your self.
“The principles are arrange way more for strikers than for wrestlers,” Rogan informed Royce Gracie on his “Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast. “I’ve been speaking about this these days. Say when you’re a jiu-jitsu man and also you’re combating within the first spherical, and rounds are 5 minutes lengthy, and you are taking the man down at 4 minutes and 30 seconds. You solely have 30 seconds to work. Even when you’re going to make it rounds, the battle is the battle.
“I don’t assume somebody ought to have the ability to rise up. I don’t assume it’s best to stand folks up – ever. I feel as soon as a man takes you down, the battle is on the bottom. If it’s boring for the viewers, robust sh*t. If you happen to’re on the underside, rise up. And when you can’t rise up, robust sh*t. And if the spherical ends after which the brand new spherical begins, I feel they need to begin you proper again in the identical place.”
Fighters additionally may very well be compelled to face again up if a referee deems them too inactive on the bottom. Rogan says if a fighter ends a spherical in prime management on the bottom, they need to begin the following spherical in the identical place.
“It offers a definite benefit when you let an individual get up that didn’t get up,” Rogan added. “If you happen to take me down with 4 minutes and 30 seconds to go and also you’re dominating me, and also you’re closing in on me, and also you’re about to faucet me, however then the spherical ends, after which we begin (the following spherical), however we begin standing up – I didn’t earn that standup. I simply bought a standup due to the time.
“I really feel just like the battle needs to be a battle. If a battle is 5 rounds, that’s a 25-minute battle, and I feel no matter place that you’re in on the finish of that first spherical, it’s best to start within the second spherical. That’s what I feel.”
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