Quote Originally Posted by Keyboard Warrior View Post
Did you see his fight against Mir? Both of them. He sat on him and pummeled him for a few rounds. It was embarrassing on both their parts.
The bolded part is the key, and IMO far from embarassing. Ground work, wrestling in particular, is HIGHLY technical. It just doesn't always mean you are winning a fight and doing damage, and I get annoyed when someone scores points without doing damage at all.

In the case of Lesnar vs Mir, there was some very technical groundwork AND damage done. There is no way that you can take a look at Frank Mir's face after that fight and say that he didn't take a beating. Just because they weren't standing up when it happened does not mean that Brock Lesnar did not excel at limited-rules fighting that day.

http://camelclutchblog.com/brock-les...ce-at-ufc-100/

If we were to see rounds eliminated from MMA, here's what would happen:

We would see MORE "doing nothing but sitting on someone". A very powerful tactic in one-on-one fights is to wear a guy out, take an hour to destroy his cardio. After you've made him too tired to fight back (from sitting on him for a half hour), THEN you go in for the finish. I guarantee you that it would be very boring to watch, but "more" realistic.

If you want to see two guys flinging and swinging, go watch kickboxing, that's what its designed for. I frankly don't find any of the "fight sports" that requires that much ref intervention to be fun at all.