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Should their be time changes in the Rounds for the Unified rules of MMA?
Does anyone else think that most fights would be more exciting if they used the old Pride rules time frame as in an opening 10 miute round with another 5 minute round and the option of a another 5 minute round if the first 2 rounds were even on the scorecards, my thinking is a lot more fights might finish in the first round ,fighters will dig deep to get through a long opening round and there is much more of a need for them to finish the fight quickly so the lay and pray tactic and the gun and run tacitcs will be effectively useless ,what are your thoughts and opinions on this?
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- callsignfuzzyLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
No. I've watched probably hundreds of MMA fights and ten minute rounds are too long, unless it's the entire match. The shorter a round is, the easier it is to score because less stuff happened.
The reason we saw less lay and pray in Pride (actually, there was plenty of it in the early events) was due to a number of differences. First, there were fewer high-quality wrestlers. Second, there was not fence to pin someone against. Third, there were more ground-and-pound options (knees, stomps, soccer kicks). And fourth, Pride had a LOT of mismatches. You're not going to see a lot of lay and pray in Fedor vs. Zulu because a Soviet killing machine doesn't need ten minutes to dispatch a beached whale.
