{"id":231395,"date":"2017-04-04T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=231395"},"modified":"2017-04-04T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:30:47","slug":"rory-macdonald-wants-headbutts-allowed-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/rory-macdonald-wants-headbutts-allowed-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Rory MacDonald calls for headbutts in MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HEADBUTTS SHOULD BE LEGAL | Rory MacDonald on fighting | London Real\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WsPObJUQ_0g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Former UFC title challenger Rory MacDonald, who is scheduled to make his <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/report-viacom-tells-bellator-officials-sign-every-single-big-name\/\">Bellator<\/a> debut against <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/paul-daley\/video-paul-daley-flying-knee-ko\/\">Paul Daley<\/a>\u00a0in London\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rory-macdonald\/rory-macdonald-sends-a-daunting-message-with-announcement-of-bellator-debut-vs-paul-daley\/\">on May 19<\/a>, is one of the best welterweights on earth. He&#8217;s also an advocate for a much more primal ruleset for the sport of mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald has discussed his desire for a baser set of rules in the past. In a recent interview with London Real, he reiterated this desire, suggesting that not only kicks to a grounded opponent, but also <em>headbutts<\/em> should be allowed in mixed martial arts:<\/p>\n<p>His words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Maybe one ten minute round, or two ten minute rounds, or one twenty minute round or something like that&#8221;\u00a0MacDonald said when asked how the sport would look in his perfect world. &#8220;Or at least scoring the fight as a whole, rather than a per round basis, because sometimes I watch a fight and I&#8217;m thinking &#8216;this guy won the fight, but on my scorecards, [the other] guy won.&#8217; It&#8217;s kind of weird like that.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;[There are] a couple rules I would change, too,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The knees on the ground to the head, the kicks to the head on the ground&#8230;a lot of the elbows&#8230;headbutts, they&#8217;d have to be in it. There were some crazy fights back in the day by Mark Coleman. He dominated. The fact that headbutts aren&#8217;t allowed, that&#8217;s a really crappy thing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While MacDonald would love to see these adjustments made to the rules of MMA, however, he knows it will probably never happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;ll never happen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s become a mainstream sport so it&#8217;s got to be somewhat clean cut, as brutal as it is.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think headbutts should be allowed in MMA? What changes would you make to the rules? Is Rory MacDonald crazy? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 4\/4\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC title challenger Rory MacDonald, who is scheduled to make his Bellator debut against Paul Daley\u00a0in London\u00a0on May 19, is one of the best welterweights on earth. He&#8217;s also an advocate for a much more primal ruleset for the sport of mixed martial arts. MacDonald has discussed his desire for a baser set of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":192794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10146,2682],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO | Rory MacDonald calls for headbutts in MMA | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bellator welterweight Rory MacDonald advocates for a more primal MMA ruleset: one that includes headbutts and kicks to the head on the ground.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/rory-macdonald-wants-headbutts-allowed-mma\/\" \/>\n<meta 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