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The eye poke that ended the UFC 321 heavyweight title bout between champion Tom Aspinall and former interim titleholder Ciryl Gane might have been the catalyst for change.
The Oct. twenty fifth pay-per-view main event got here to an abrupt halt late in the opening spherical after Gane inadvertently poke Aspinall in both eyes rendering him unable to see and unable to continue. Eye pokes have long been a downside in blended marital arts, but according to veteran referee Herb Dean a rule change can be coming soon.
“I think enough people are fed up with the eye poke situation that something is going to be done,” Dean told Helen Yee Sports. “The thing with changing rules, there’s always unintended consequences, but we have to try something and I think that people are ready to move on and try something with that.
“People have been speaking already and there’s going to be a assembly where we form of go over that a little bit. But, yeah, there’s definitely one thing going to occur.”
“Enough people are upset,” continued Dean. “And in all probability enough of the suitable people. I do not know. I have not talked to any of them, but I believe some people have been speaking, so it is obtained enough momentum.”
Dean would like to see several rule changes and believes some of them will be addressed in the upcoming meeting.
“There’s a bunch of guidelines that I believe ought to be modified, and I believe we’re going to get to some of those too this time,” he said. “I believe one of the silliest guidelines we have now that makes a lot of issues occur is we have now this intentional and unintentional, and how are we – so the referee is meant to be a thoughts reader.”
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“I believe we need to change that because it’s extremely, there’s a lot issues that occur. There’s methods you’ve to go. If you rule it intentional, then you’ve to do sure issues. And if it is unintentional, you’ve to do other issues, so that’s one of the most annoying issues. And that’s been a rule for a long time and fighters realize it and there’s methods they’ll sport the system. … I believe we’re hopefully going to look at that this time too.”
The meeting to address potential rule changes takes place next week and Dean expects commissions to work fast to implement any changes made.
“I believe they need to transfer fast on this one. I do not assume they are going to wait until the ABC assembly that normally occurs in {the summertime}. I believe they are going to strive to get all people to meet elsewhere, meet some method, you realize, on cellphone calls, or like on a Zoom assembly or one thing like that,” he said.
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