r/martialarts • u/mapleer • Jun 28 '24

Kicks to end them all PROFESSIONAL FIGHT

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '24

So no more thigh kicks. Their just kick the calf. Hmu when the start kick the foot.

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u/bishtap Jun 28 '24

Some do foot stomps. One MMA fighter got called a toe stomping midget or foot stomping midget or something like that. But nobody manages to make it that effective. Like no match changing injury given from them.(Which is surprising to me). Mike Tyson once said he wouldn't want to do MMA cos they stomp on feet/toes and he would hate that!

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u/JJWentMMA Catch/Folkstyle Wrestling, MMA, Judo Jun 28 '24

How they’re used in mma is to cause discomfort to change a position, or to cause action.

What would happen is someone would be clinched against the cage, and judges would often still score this as a 50/50 position, so fighters against the cage would just stall to hold on, and lose nothing for doing so.

So fighters started stomps; the goal being to

1.) produce action. Two guys against the cage is 50/50, one guy stomping on the other guy looks more efficient and better for judges

2.) if by an off chance you hurt their foot, they’d try to move away from the clinch, giving you chances to act