The Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission (CABMMA) is the latest regulatory body to approve the full new version of the Unified Rules of MMA.
CABMMA director of operations Cristiano Sampaio told MMA Fighting on Tuesday that his organization will adopt the two new rules that it had yet to codify — the definition of a grounded fighter and the removal of the heel strikes to the kidney foul. The Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports (ABC) passed a package of new rules last year that not every commission has adopted.
Sampaio and CABMMA had been vocal dissenters, like the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board (NJSACB) to those particular rules.