I made a post on bloodyelbow about why the UFC needs free market judges, refs, etc, instead of government appointed ones. Bloodyelbow gets read by alot of mma fans. Any help, by registering and posting on the site would be appreciated.
Dana White is calling for the government to update its rules on eye pokes. The rules were written for boxing. And of course, we all know, the government uses a one size fits all solution to everything.
The fingers need to be free to allow proper grappling.
I just want knees to the head back. Just that and i’m a happy MMA fan."
Ultimately, the UFC will try and provide whatever the fans want. That is why they should be in charge of making the rules, not some government commission.
WBO is corrupt beyond repair (remember Pacquiao v Bradley?)
I do Muay Thai/BJJ fighting at AZ Combat Sports, and there are loads of discussions there about how to efficiently and consistently judge the outcome of a fight. The simplest way the majority of us agree upon is to ‘finish’ the fight. The recent Jones v Sonnen fight ended with an eye poke apparently (though no one noticed Jones’ broken toe until Rogan interviewed him after the fight ended…). I wouldn’t have agreed, but the fact of the matter is that you’re right: using government appointed anything will be less efficient that privately appointed anything.
Controversy would obviously arise from ‘finishing’ a fight, but solutions to efficiently judging that term would be more easily uncovered privately. I think fans would appreciate that.
Extrapolating out of this example, try to realize what you are saying: “a small group of people always make the right choice for the individual.” Is this better than saying: “the individual making the right choice for the individual” ?
but they used slaves, didn’t they? and we don’t know what other alternatives would have popped up, because the people had a highly regulated market, right?
This is actually a great example of the black and white phenomenon. You might have said: “because it should not be regulated by public appointed officials, then somehow it would not be regulated at all.” A gray, happy medium always exists, and the private market is the most efficient place to find it.
i said in the next post i think free market is most efficiant. in this case free market would be ufc choosing what rules it has and it’s business can rise or fall acording to the market.
ufc as a company is not looking for no rules streetfights, but in a free market a company that does could appear.