Joe on Petr Yan's Illegal Knee at UFC 259

the jr.ogan experience i saw the one guy uh you've got dq'd yeah yeah that's brutal just a straight knee to the face while you're on the ground yeah super unfortunate and one of his coaches was yelling just punches just punches oh yeah marco stomata who's uh his name his nickname is parampa is the jiu jitsu coach one of the coaches for american top team and he's yelling out just punches just punches and then someone else in the coach is yelling russian in russian they're you know the yellow and the pure to hit him and you know because he's thinking that the guys it's confusing to some fighters when is a downed opponent a grounded opponent is technically i'm sure if he's hunched over it's like wait is his foot is his knee down or is he if you have one here's the thing if you have your feet down but one hand down you're not grounded if you have two two maybe nevada still nevada uses a hybrid version of the new uh mixed martial arts rules it used to be um anytime you had a hand down at all you were a grounded opponent and then they switched it to if you have two hands down you're a grounded opponent but if you have a knee down you're a grounded opponent so he had a knee and two hands yeah so he was he was fucking grounded i mean it was like there was no question about he was grounded but i think maybe he thought he was coming up and pure tried to catch him catch him as he was coming up but it was 100 illegal yeah i mean that's so you could see it here see he let's see he's got one hand down yeah i think he's got one hand no it doesn't both of his hands both hands up so maybe that's what he thought maybe it was because the knee was down and both hands were up he thought he wasn't grounded yeah maybe that's why he's confused but i mean it's 100 illegal that sucks for both of them see if you you hear your coach yelling hit him see see even i'm like thinking like okay is that grounded or is not grounded i know it's not i know it's grounded because this has come up before because it used to be that when your hands were down then it was grounded yeah but then big john mccarthy explained to me no no anything other than the surface of your feet on your legs like so your knee if your knee is down that means you're a grounded opponent like with with that guy like is he coming over from a different fighting league no he's the champion no he's the champion it's just there's different versions of the rules right in some places uh a grounded opponent you what is the new version of the the rule there's one of the new versions of the rule is if you are putting weight on your hand so like you can touch it but you can't if you have weight on it then you're a grounded opponent but if you're just touching that's that's not a grounded opponent all right that's it's all it's too complicated as soon as you allow opinion to come in it's like well then there's the debate on like what's that the right call bad call it's like just set up a clear definitive rule right well there's other folks that also think well why isn't that a legal technique well how come you could punch him in the face you can't name in the face this is stupid like why can't you get how come you can't kick him in the face how come when a guy's lying in his back he can kick you in the face but you can't kick him in the face like that seems from 2018 the Nevada rules on it there's the new the Nevada has a hybrid version it didn't adopt a new grounded rule I think unless they've changed it yeah I think this is to be considered grounded it says a more technical piece the new rules pertains to that of a grounded opponent which states a fighter must have both of their hands down the ground whether it's be palms or fists for them to be considered grounded unless a knee or anything other than the soul's kicks or knee strikes to the head of a grounded striker or fighter rather therefore is illegal however the Nevada state athletic commission will not be adopting this part of the new rules and we're stick with the old definition for a grounded fighter which means anything but the souls of the feet okay so that's why it's confusing so the grounded opponent thing the fighter must have both their hands down the ground that's what it used to be whether it be palms or fists for them to be considered grounded unless a knee or other than the souls of the feet are down as well so either way he was grounded because there was a knee down so it was an illegal technique all over the world that one that move which is unfortunate I mean that's gotta suck for him of like he was winning the fight too that's what sucked um puree yon was uh he it looked like he was starting to gain control of the fight and I think it was in the fourth round was it the fourth round it was a good fight though really good fight and I'm sure they're gonna have a rematch and the rematch would be super hyped up and yeah you know but he had dropped Al germane and he had taken him down and tripped him slammed him to the ground a few times and it looked like he was in control of the exchanges but but still very good fight catch new episodes of the Joe Rogan experience for free only on Spotify watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on Spotify you can listen to the JRE in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free Spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes you just need to search for the JRE on your Spotify app go to Spotify now to get this full episode of the Joe Rogan experience