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your missing the point entirely, thats why I used the analogy, because it makes no sense. It wasnt an argument I dont believe myself, it was an analogy to show how stupid the points being argued to keep it legal are. All I did was take the same points everyone says to keep them legal, and applied it to eye gauging, as an analogy. You CAN defend eye gauges, just like you CAN defend this oblique kick. So hooray lets make them legal!
Oblique kicks CAN cause serious injury although there havent been many. Just like the eye gauge CAN cause serious injury, but there hasnt been any!!! therefore making eye gauges safer than knee stomps because there have been no injuries from it!!!! Look how many times jon jones used it. Were any eyes gauged out? nope. So as you can see, the technique has been used extensively in MMA but hasnt created any serious injuries. Therefore its a safe, can easily be defended against, and is a legitimate strike just as any other and should be allowed in MMA because im a tuff guy with a tuff guy mindset and its a fight, a fight is a fight bro, if they dont want their eyes poked out, they shouldnt be fighting! (man i sound tuff)
Blindness is a serious injury. So is a hyperextended knee. Neither of these can be compared to hitting the head. Its ridiculous to bring in getting hit into the head into the argument. Or people saying if we were really worried about the fighters we would remove hits to the head. This is ridiculous to say because you can just keep going and apply that to anything. If we were really worried about the fighters..........they wouldnt be fighting and instead should be replace the hits to the head with kisses. If we were really worried about TKD fighters we should remove kicks! If were really worried about boxers, lets remove punching! Hey maybe boxers should be allowed to try and punch each others knee caps!
If were really worries about MMA fighters, we should remove soccer kicks to the head. Wait a minute, that has been done already, but why? Its a fight right, getting kicked in the head is part of the game. If he didnt wanna get soccer kicked in the head he shouldnt be fighting.
How many "joints have been snapped" by oblique kicks, again? And yes, exactly, you said it: getting kicked and punched are part of the game, that's why eye gauges are legal and there's no reason to ban them. They're a strike like any other and don't cause any more injuries than other strikes. On the contrary, they cause both less AND lesser injuries than strikes to the head. As you can clearly see via Jon Jones, check the statistics, they dont lie! He regularly used the eye poke with no serious injuries, there have been more serious injuries by hits to the head.
we should also allow hair pulling because getting hit in the head is worse than getting your hair pulled. would you rather loose some hair or get brain damage?
The goal behind this oblique kick knee stomp move, is to break the opponents knee. Thats why it should be illegal. It has the potential to cause way to serious of an injury, a career ending injury. Much in the same manner soccer kicks to the head have been removed. Because it can cause too much damage. But hey its a fight right, and kicks/punches to the head are part of the game, so soccer kicks to the head should be legal.
Sure maybe there have been very little to no serious injuries from this move, yet. But that doesnt change the fact that the move is designed to break knees. No a kid that goes and has his first MMA or MT fight, should not potentially get his knee broken and career ended his first fight. Just like he shouldnt get soccer kicked in the head and get brain damage, or get a eye poked out and be blind.
Any strike that is designed to break a limb/joint should be removed. Any strike with the potential to cause serious injury should be removed. Such as brain damaging soccer kicks to the head, and joint breaking knee stomps.
My personal exp, is that most the guys that are for this move are not fighters, and most guys that want it banned are fighters.
if you want some facts heres a fact: Jon Jones used the eye poke in MMA. There have been no serious injuries from it. No eyes have been poked out from it. It can be defended against. There have been more injuries by hits to the head than pokes to the eye.
