The end of Saturday’s war between Tony Ferguson and Donald Cerrone seemed to indicate another problem with the latest rendition of the MMA rules.
The show was in Chicago’s United Center, meaning Illinois rules. In those rules, like in most jurisdictions, a referee can use instant replays. But once he does so, the fight is automatically over. The idea is that replays can only be used to determine if the finishing blow of a fight was a legal blow.
Constantly using replays, or doing so while action is going on, would interfere with the flow of a fight.