I think the unified MMA rules that favour wrestlers are the clinch work on the fence and not the ground and pound. Couture scored an incomprehensible win in a fight when he was knocked to the ground twice. Perhaps that just means fighters have to roll for broke against a clinch or risk losing. The scoring seems to favour wrestlers for fence clinch and take downs versus strikes.
It leads to the complaint about no damage on the scorecard. I agree with Mauro Ranallo - for once - that the rules need damage over position because the whole point is to win, not be technically better.
But if you are going to open up the rules, why wouldn't you penalize Machida for running away from an opponent? That is in the scorecard already and they ignore it. He wasn't backing up to deliver a new blow, he was outright running with his back to his opponent and still he won? They have a rule about that already. Huh?
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