UK MMA LEAGUE © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2009
Rules: Overview
All events will consist of amateur MMA rules. No headshots are allowed.
Match Duration:
All matches are 1 x 5 minute round.
Match Area:
All matches will be held within a matted fighting area, a ring or Cage.
Ways to Win:
Forcing your opponent to submit (tapout), or to quit, classed as T.K.O.The
referee stopping the match or disqualifying you or your opponent.
Standing:
All punching and kicking techniques to the body or legs. All knee strikes
to the body or legs. All throws & takedowns.
On the ground:
Punches and knees to the body only. All permitted submissions.
ILLEGAL TECHNIQUES:
No hair pulling, biting, eye gouging, head butting, ear pulling or fish hooking.
No
downward elbow strikes permitted.
No closed guard strike to kidneys.
No manipulation
of small joints (fingers, toes).
No directly strikes to knee joints.
No holding of
gloves or other safety equipment.
No heel-
No pulling of clothing permitted except to opponent's belts or
GI's.
No striking directly to spine.
No neck cranking attacks such as Can-
No groin strikes permitted.
No striking a grounded opponent.
Any technique which
results in your opponent being spiked
Throat strikes of any kind, including grabbing
the trachea or clavicle.
Clawing, pinching or twisting the flesh.
Kicking to the kidney
with the heel.