At this week’s Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports convention attending regulators have agreed to unanimously add 4 new weight classes for Mixed Martial Arts. It is worth noting the new weight classes are not mandatory for promoters so an organization such as the UFC is under no obligation to expand their roster to new … More ABC Adopts 4 New MMA Weight Classes
Update July 26, 2017 – As reported by Kirik Jenness, these rules have been adopted by unanimous vote. __________________________________ This week the Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports are having their annual convention hosted at the Mohegan Sun Casino. Among the noteworthy agenda items is a vote on a set of unified rules for … More ABC to Vote on Unified Rules of Kickboxing
At the 2016 Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports convention in Las Vegas changes to the Unified Rules of MMA were introduced which included the legalization of heel kicks to an opponents kidney from guard and a change in definition of what it takes to be a grounded fighter. Not all member commissions adopted … More CABMMA Adopts Heel Kicks to Kidneys and ABC’s New Definition of Grounded Fighter
Update July 22, 2017 – This tournament went off without a hitch. Accounts from Facebook show that not only did the local city police not press any charges they were even in attendance and posed for this photo. This is an interesting scenario with the Province saying BJJ contests are presently illegal and with Toronto … More Ontario BJJ Tournament Plays a Game of Legal Chicken With the Province
Adding to this site’s combat sports safety study archives, a recent study was published in the South African Journal of Sports Medicine looking at injury rates in an African MMA promotion and concluding that the injury rates are higher than those noted from US based competitions. The authors noted Overall injury prevalence appears to be as … More Study – Previous MMA Injury Doubles Risk of Injury in Following Fight
Reasons for judgement were released this week by the US District Court, E.D. Louisiana, awarding damages for the piracy of UFC 183. In the recent case (Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. v. DML, LLC) the Defendant operated a sports bar which displayed UFC 183 without paying the commercial sub-licencing fee. The Plaintiff obtained default judgement of … More $25,000 Damages Awarded for UFC 183 Piracy
Update July 15, 2017– USADA have confirmed Mayweather is being tested by them. This leaves the only question of why the NAC have not bothered obtaining a copy of the anti-doping contract between Mayweather Promotions and USADA. ______________________ Conor McGregor has been subject to random out of competition drug testing by the United States Anti … More Are Mayweather and McGregor on an Even Anti-Doping Testing Landscape?
Reasons for judgement were recently published by the US District Court, S.D. Alabama, Southern Division, finding that there is ‘no right to indemnity’ when a Defendant is sued for alleged piracy of a pay per view broadcast. In the recent case (Joe Hand Promotion, Inc. v. Cloud 9 Vapes LLC) the Defendant broadcast a UFC … More No Right to Indemnity in UFC Cable Theft Piracy Prosecutions
Combative sports, like all contact sports, have inherent dangers and it is important for stakeholders to work together to create best practices to minimize these. To this end an informative article was recently published in Neurologic Clinics. The article, titled, Neurologic Health in Combat Sports, takes an in depth look at the current state of … More Neurologist Calls for Uniform Minimum Standards For Combat Sports Neurologic Safety
The UFC announced that Nick Diaz has been provisionally suspended by the US Anti Doping Agency for accumulating 3 “whereabouts failures” within a 12 month period. Diaz has not competed since January, 2015. Despite this he remains under active contract with UFC parent company Zuffa, which incorporates the custom tailored UFC/USADA anti doping program “ADP” … More Legal Background of Nick Diaz’s UFC “Whereabouts” Violation
