I think of things from a womans perpective, if I'm stuck underneath my putting elbows up and grinding them in an eye or even mouth helps. As a woman there are few single strikes that will ever stop a fight against a man so it has to be a collection of everything and anything, the important thing to me is to keep fighting, moving and hoping to get a chance to break away and get the hell out of there. I don't imagine I'm ever going to win a fight against a 16st man for example but what I'm aiming to do is cause damage and get out alive then......then come back with others and fill him in lol!
Biting leaves marks that can be matched to help catch the attacker so is worth doing even if it doesn't cause much damage, you just need to leave your teeth marks.
This makes sense. I hadn't looked at the possibility of causing damage for later identification. That's brilliant.
The problem with the UFC is thats it's not the worlds best promotion,
Oh, stop it. They are the best, although the winds of change are swirling. As Strikeforce signs more top fighters (like Dan Henderson) there may finally be viable competition for the UFC, which would be good for MMA world wide.
But right now, they are hands down the best at this point and time. This isn't to say that there aren't very good fighters in other organizations. It's simply saying that the stable of fighters in the UFC/WEC organization is as a collective at a clearly higher level with deeper divisions than any other in the world. I just don't see how anyone could even try to argue otherwise. But, maybe that's a topic for another day.
the stopping of guys with cuts is usually a wrong decision by the ref or the management We've found that elbows rarely cause the cuts, the edges of the gloves do, Fairtex especially along with a couple of other brands. A good cutman can stop it enough for the fighter to carry on, the UFC makes decisions that wouldn't be made elsewhere.
I've seen more nasty, deep cuts opened by an errant elbow than in any other way combined. And if they're above the eye impeding the fighter's vision, the doctors tend to stop it. That's not just in the UFC, either.
Now, things may be different in the UK, but in the States, the only exception to this would be maybe an unsanctioned, seedy event. Anything above board would end in a doctor's stoppage if the cut is bleeding into the fighter's eye. The fighter has to get to the end of the round before the cutman can do anything, and usually, even if that does happen, the cut gets reopened, usually worse than before, and the fight gets stopped.
All of that being said, I've never seen a fight ended from an elbow OTHER than from a cut. Elbows just don't end fights often, if at all. I've seen more fights end from a spinning backfist (two) than from any kind of knockout from an elbow strike (other than tko due to a cut).
In a self defense situation, I just wouldn't rely on an elbow. The only real legit consideration is as Jarrod says, which is more mental than physical. Basically, demoralizing your attacker by making him bleed.
This is all simply my opinion.
