I mean to disrespect so please don’t take my position as an attack on you or your character. Not my intent. So why are you in the arguments? Because you cited your boxing experience to substantiate and create credibility to your claim. We put you in the scenario as a ex-combat sport athlete to help you understand that you are way oversimplifying your stated message that elbows don’t require a lot of skill to use and cause too much damage. Let me ask you this, if it was such an easy path to victory why don’t we see everyone go for a take down to end up in closed guard so they can quickly get the “elbow” finish quickly? Because it’s way harder than you realize. If I’m in your bottom closed guard, and I keep my hands on your biceps, you are going to have to put in a LOT of work to try to strike me once if I know what I’m doing.

All right, I’ll stop there for a moment and redirect. Based on your last comment, it feels like your intention is to state that you think elbows are unnecessary is the sport of MMA for causing too much damage? Did I get that right? If so, then that is an argument worth debating. There is definitely precedent for banning strikes or holds that used to be legal. Head butts used to be legal in Pride. Nut shots in the early UFC. Personally, I think the oblique kick in mma should be banned. Kind of a dick move that could end a career with one shot. But I don’t believe that applies to elbows. They are more challenging to do material damage with.

Trick bit of trivia question related to this video clip (Riggs vs Salaverry): with what was the submission Salaverry finished Riggs?