MMA Scribbles Newsletter -New Year, New You- Issue #34

Happy New Year!

Here we are in 2022.

One thing that grinds my gears as MMA and the UFC become more popular is the constant complaint that there is no UFC for X amount of weeks. Are you an MMA fan or a UFC fan?

Because there is always something going on in combat sports.

On the podcast I co-host we looked back at the past year and talked about some fights and fighters we’d like to see this year. Check it out on Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.

Old Rules Level The Field

Caged Fury Fighting Champions (CFFC) started their own submission only grappling event in 2021. They use similar rules like Fight 2 Win (Advantage) where if a submission does not happen, judges decide the winner. Nothing new, right?

However, this event featured a lot of MMA fighters, many from the UFC roster where the rule for matches like that said, “no heel hooks for fighters on UFC roster.” Back in the day, when I started learning…