Instant replay could be coming to mixed martial arts.
The Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports (ABC) rules and regulations committee for MMA has passed the use of instant replay for fight-finishing sequences, committee chair Sean Wheelock confirmed Tuesday with MMA Fighting.
The proposed rule will be brought to the ABC body and voted on at its annual conference this summer in Connecticut. Paul Gift of Bloody Elbow was the first to report the development.
The language of the proposed instant replay rule is intentionally limited in scope, Wheelock said. It says a referee “may only use Instant Replay when he/she feels that a “Fight Ending Sequence” was possibly caused by an illegal action (foul) whether intentional or unintentional.”
In other words, if a potential foul — an eye poke, blow to the groin, illegal knee, etc. — leads to the finish of a fight, a referee has the discretion to go to the replay to determine whether or not the blow was legal or not and what the fight result should be ruled.
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