1. Conor McGregor will always be next in line for a title shot.

Dana- "we broke EVERY RECORD tonight, we're trending, this thing was massive"

3:29 "But if that is the case, then they are certainly not openly discussing it " Derrick Lewis literally said on JRE that he kicked a guy in the nuts, because he knew he would only get a warning, but would get a break to breath and calm down.

"Im not making any excuses BUT, I tore my ACL, mcl, broke my back, my wife left me, I got Covid, 2 weeks out from the fight, but hey, no excuses"

I was hoping after the "missing weight" rule, you would include "even if your opponent misses weight, you still fight." Its not often that when someone misses weight that the other person doesn't agree to the fight, even though they are allowed to. I don't remember who it was, but i remember someone did not agree to the fight after their opponent missed weight, and the UFC cut her

I think the whole "beat the champ" thing has a lot do with the atrocious judging that occurs in mma. Losing the belt because the judges have a minimal grasp of the fight they just witnessed is nonsense. It's also pushback against the strategy of round-stealing (going hard in the last minute because that's what the judges will actually remember). Also, fans don't tend to feel this way over lopsided fights, only the close ones

I knew the glove touch thing would be number 1. It’s a show of respect, to just attack right then when someone is giving you respect is just a douche move.

The "no fighting teammates" rule has one major caveat: it can be acceptable if your teammate asks you to be a short-notice opponent for their fight (or risks the fight being cancelled), since in that case you are helping your teammate.

Top 10 fighters who are too tough for their own good

Side note: Michael Chiesa asking for someone to get between him and Kevin lee before then waiting and ‘attacking’ him was hilarious.

About that wightcut issue: Those fighters have months of training camp. The reason why some don't make the weightcut is because they try to get away with cutting lots of weight at the last second instead of gradually lowering weight during training camp. That practise also got several fighters into health troubles and cost them and us as fans good fights. So it really needs to go away.

It's crazy to think about the sport evolving where everyone commits at least one "free foul" per fight, because that's just what you do, as part of the strategy. That's probably going to happen, it does in every other sport. Balls and strikes in baseball were put into the rules way back in the day because pitchers would throw "bad balls" on purpose just to make the batter impatient and start swinging at bullshit, so they put a limit on the amount of "bad balls" a pitcher could throw in an at bat, that's why we have balls and strikes now, and the batter gets a walk after 4 balls. So obviously it's not advantageous for a pitcher to throw balls, but they still do, often on purpose. It's just smart baseball, you don't want to throw too many strikes because that gives the batter too many opportunities. A smart pitcher will throw at least 1 out of the strike zone on purpose in almost every at bat, it's just what you do. I suspect we'll see the same thing with eye pokes or fence grabs in the MMA future.

People only agree with the "you have to BEAT the champ" rule when it suits them, I've never seen it brought up by someone who didnt want the champ to win

So I’m a huge MMA fan, but I was paralyzed at 21 so obviously cannot grapple. I’d love a top 10 spinal cord injury, spinal cord frightening moments like Rose being slammed on her head. Bring awareness as much as possible. Love the channel 😁

I truly feel these judges need to go through a 2 to 3 month crash course on how to identify certain factors that present themselves and how to understand offensive and defensive grappling as well as positioning. The rules should be clarified and definitely rewritten to help weed out the vague rules.

A great unwritten truth, is straight punches beat looping punches.

1. Chael sonnen is the undisputed champion of the world.

The unwritten rule of after suffering a major foul and you’re losing you must continue is so freaking stupid. Just take Aljo for example. Taking a direct knee to the temple, the man got concussed. And people expect him to literally risk his life for a guy who illegally hurt him. Taking more damage while concussed takes years off your life man, it ain’t worth it.

Love how he showed O’Malley when he had the one about excuses

I completely agree with you on the whole "you have to beat the champ" thing. Otherwise, the champ doesn't have to defend their belt by winning. They just have to not lose

In my last amateur fight my opponent hit me off the glove touch. I was so mad too because the ref had said in the pre-fight meeting that he would take a point if you did (Rules are different for amateurs in my state) but he didn't have a chance to do anything because I grabbed him and Guillotined him immediately after. The official time was 28 seconds into the first round. Never punch off the glove touch, Karma will get you.

The "don't make excuses" is also an unwritten rule for professional track athletes. To me there is a difference between an excuse and a reason, but a lot of people don't feel that way.

#10 is an un-written rule Jon Jones has relied on for many of his 'undefeated' fights. It needs to go.

In Honor of the Korean Zombie Top 10 Fighters with the most Blackbelts in different Disciplines (When too many have the same amount take those with the highest Dan ranks) 😁👍🏻

Love you guys

I hope you never stop using Conor's "My foot was a balloon!" clip, it makes me laugh every time 😂

"Sometimes several fouls go unpunished" the best example of that isn't Germain vs Holms, it's Conor vs Khabib. Someone counted like 10 fouls in that fight happening in front of Herb Dean and he didn't do anything about it.

This was well done! Thank you for your content brother! The voice lines and add ins were awesome!

"Ric Flair said it, so it must be true" 😂

IDK, MMA on point just makes me happy. Been binge watching all the episodes. Hope y'all notice 👌🏼👌🏼

Every time i hear tommy's voice im happy

Love the trick shot off the ladder at 13:54, another reason to love MMA on Point

#2 is literally a written rule though. You’re contractually obligated to make weight.

Big props to him for not taking the DQ victory but at the same time, JON JOOONES knows the rules. It would even be good justice for him to have the belt taken. It was no accident. And in this one on one combat sport the impacts of injury and cheating are more than in any other sport. Due to injury potential and how due to the one on one nature it may really change the course of things. And feeling pressured with behaving honorably allows cheaters to get through to you and hold you back while they keep reaping the glory.

Love where you show pictures of similar scenarios of fighters it's happened to

"You have to beat the Champ!" is a crossover from boxing. One of the many reasons boxing is in the state it is.

I’ve heard that another rule is when you lock in a submission, you wait a second or two before you really cinch it in to give your opponent a chance to tap out. It’s essentially a way to tell your opponent “You’d better tap now or I’m gonna do some real damage.”

I remember someone from The Ultimate Fighter did the fake glove tap to win his fight to get into the house, he immediately shot for a take down and controlled his opponent the entire round in a two round fight

"What's to stop a fighter from, "accidentally"..." according to how many eye pokes Jones does every fight, nothing.

10. highlander rule. Two enter one walks out champ. 10a. Mad max rule. Dont lean on the cage. 10b. Interim is just number one contender. The actual champ never lost the belt.

11- All wmma decisions go to the hotter fighter

The 'beat the champ' rule in my opinion is a lot less unfair than in boxing where the title holder often has a mandatory rematch clause...so effectively you need to beat them twice to get the title

I like it when fights are decided by close decisions because then you get a second fight and it builds up

Right way to start a day👌🏼🔥

"Beat the champ", in my in my interpretation means to dominate the champ definitively in every round or finish. There can be no question who won. Judging, regardless of knowledge/skill set/training, is subjective. Every judge sees it differently. 3 judges, 3 potentially entirely different perceptions of the same sequence of events in a 10 sec span let alone a 5 min rounds and 1 min intervals. Not to mention they sit apart so as not to influence each other, so that also creates different angles. The same punch might appear to hit/glance/miss depending on the judges position cage side. Regardless of your thoughts on judging as a whole if you don't finish the champ. You better dominate the champ every single moment of that fight so there can be absolutely no question who won.

Floyd was actually in the right during that infamous “foul” against ortiz

Music is poppin' on thisone! Can't wait for my tropical island summer!

The "I'm not making an excuse but" is the mma equivalent of going "No offense" and the proceeding to offend everyone

My dad was a fighter, even knocked out a fighter back in old days when that said champ needed sparring partners. But my dad always said... (when it comes to doing illegal shit in the fight) "keep doing what you're doing until the ref gives you the last warning"... my dad isn't a good person btw

The first rule is literally why Dom Reyes didn't get the W against Jones. He factually won 3 rounds- yet lost the two championship rounds and there you go.

You guys are the best make the best videos thank you... comedic gold

Its always cool seeing fighters giving their opponent time if they think they poked them etc without the ref seeing it or adjusting their wardrobe

Not making any excuses, but they poisoned my IV.

1 free foul? Bones gets free fouls all the time

Another Banger MMA On Point video. I haven't even watched it.

This is your best top 10 list. By number 8 I was thinking "already here? What else?" Lol Thanks TTH and On Point.

Did anyone else catch how Burns straight up threw an illegal soccer kick while Chimaev was getting up and almost dam near caught him with it??

#1 is Tony Ferguson is that type of guy.

I can't believe I lived to see the day. Number 10. I thought I was the only one that noticed this, lol. So glad to see a video put a spotlight on how decisions actually work in title fights. Every single time I see a title fight that is SUPER close and goes to decision....I just auto assume the champ will get it because I've never once seen a title change hands over to someone who just barely eeked out a decision.

Kudos all the work editing this must have taken

Been watching this channel since they were at 100k, man it’s been a long ass time following these guys, all the different content, the growth, the steady pace of videos, I love you guys and I hope you reach 1 million subscribers soon

#1 is nobody knows where Kevin Lee fits into all of this or where the holes he see's are located. Biggest unwritten rule there is in the sport.

never thought id see an mw2 killcam on mma on point big ups to the editor

Great choice of topics.

the rule of not taking a dq doesnt exist to everyone, completely fair to win via dq after egregious fouls especially when half your pay is win bonus

“I sneezed this morning...” So? “Three times!” Oh shit... Well in that case.

Very good list 👍

Someone made the greatest point about Sterling!! At what point is it up to the fighter (who might be concussed) to decide if they are capable of continuing to fight. Reminding you of a drunk driver

7:43 is it just me or does anyone else think Cain should've been the one to move down to LHW (first at least) 🤔 feel like his cut would've been easier than DC's

Love you guys more than stinky bacon

You get one free foul Unrelated footage of Jon jones

Barrington Patterson (who fought Bisping in kickboxing) used to do the fake glove touch a lot and then low kick the guy. He's get booed and he liked that, liked playing the heel role.

Sterling got destroyed by the knee that was thrown. And told the doctor he was fine 3 times but the doc said no. Then even threw the belt dana gave to him on the floor. (He also beat him just recently when they fought again)

“To be the champ you gotta beat the champ” implies heavily that the champion of the division needs an automatic handicap which is just plain insulting, that’s supposed to be the best of their division

I'll explain nr 10: If a championship fight ends with a draw then champion keeps the belt, right? Therefore, the challenger should have more sense of urgency since first minute of a round. There is no way a challenger should win a close decision while avoiding engagement and counter striking. If a draw is more favourable to the champion, the challenger just has to do tiny bit more.

Sterling definitely milked that knee. There’s no doubt about it.

Love this channel but if each round is scored differently and it doesn’t matter about champ status… Holloway would have regained his title against Volkanovski in their second bout as he won the first 3 rounds easily

Making weight isn’t an unwritten rule. It’s like, number 2 of the written rules. 🤣🤣

Lol love how you put the MW2 Trickshot in

The problem with the excuses one is that it's gone so far that people will tell fighters to shut up and take the loss like a man if they try to suggest that their performance in the fight may have been negatively impacted by the unexpected loss of feeling of everything below their necks

Floyd had every right to hit Ortiz, Ortiz head butted him

All I know is you cant spell Michael Chandler without CHAEL CHAEL! Copyright 2020©

Banger.

I think I actually agree with all of these unwritten rules... Even the contradictory ones like "No excuses." and "Dont pull out of a fight." A paradox... but still, I agree with them.

Floyd was totally justified in that "cheap shot" against Ortiz. Ortiz was actually suspended after that fight for all his blatant head butting. One wrong doesn't make a right, but 2 or 3 headbutts can all but guarantee Floyd Mayweather is gonna end the entertainment early

I love your videos but I think you were a bit off base with the first rule . The “Beat the champ to beat the champ” philosophy is actually enacted in the rules . If two fighters draw , the champion keeps his belt and is counted as a successful title defense . So the beat the champ to be the champ philosophy is already evident in the ruleset

Top 10 Life Threatening injuries that happened in the Octagon

EXCELLENT!!

“Dagestan glove touch” When you fake a glove touch, then shoot on your opponent lol!

1. Don’t ever talk about Michael Chiesa’s mom

“I’m not making any excuses, but I didn’t ask to be here, don’t expect me to be happy about doing any human tasks!”

And Anthony Smith my new fav light heavy

#10 is simple, if you say "I can beat you", the burden of proof is on you. As the challenger, you must definitively prove your claim. That's why the rule exists.

Would love to see Conor mc Gregor vs Colby Covington at WW

Finally the O.Gs back ✊✊

About rule 9 - I think injuries by the losing fighter are seen as an excuse because if they knew they had an injury, they could pull out or bring it up before the fight.

Also, usually when a fighters locks in an armbar, leglock, etc. They don't go full on joint-breaking mode, they just go mild until the opponent taps, and if they don't, they just increase pressure gradually.

You literally have to beat the champ in order to win. You literally have to beat a Challenger in order to win. IF you are theoretically beaten in a fight are you not the winner?

I really want a fighter to say one day, "he went for the fake glove touch, and I countered with my free foul to the nuts."

Wow these titles are immaculate ‼️