{"id":30780,"date":"2025-07-29T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30780\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:23:08","slug":"jon-anik-open-to-knockdown-rule-in-mma-after-steven-nguyen-mohammed-yahya-controversy-it-does-exist-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30780\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Anik open to knockdown rule in MMA after Steven Nguyen-Mohammed Yahya controversy: ‘It does exist for a reason’"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC commentator Jon Anik is open to the idea of a knockdown rule in MMA after watching the Steven Nguyen-Mohammed Yahya fight.<\/p>\n

\"Jon<\/p>\n

Nguyen took on Yahya on the prelims of UFC Abu Dhabi<\/a> at featherweight. Nguyen dropped Yahya five times in the first round<\/a> and got another knockdown in the second round for six total, before the doctor stopped it at the end of the second round. However, many fans wanted the fight to be stopped sooner, and Jon Anik agrees, as he believes that the fight could have been stopped early in the first round.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like the fight should\u2019ve been stopped. Paul Felder said toward the end of Round 2, \u2018This fight is not going to continue, right? Because a physician is going to get involved here.\u2019 Bisping first called for a potential stoppage because of all the knockdowns at the two-and-a-half-minute mark of Round 1,\u201d Anik said on Anik & Florian Podcast<\/a>. \u201cI do believe, because we\u2019re not assessing concussive damage live in the moment. But, after a myriad of knockdowns, I\u2019m not saying there should be a knockdown rule in mixed martial arts. But it does exist for a reason. After six or even of these f*****g things we can stop the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

In total, Yahya absorbed 108 strikes and was knocked down six times, which Jon Anik believes shouldn\u2019t have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC commentator Jon Anik is open to the idea of a knockdown rule in MMA after watching the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-30780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}