YAMMA's Lesson

Finally, number one on the list of things learned from the inaugural YAMMA Pit Fighting event. The pit was designed in order to negate stall tactics by wrestlers. I believe that's why the cast of fighters were predominantly wrestlers to try and prove this point. That may have been the theory but that is not how things played out. The "height advantage" the fighter was meant to gain from standing on the raised part of the pit was completely non existant. The raised part of the pit only aided the wrestler in being able to achieve a double leg much easier. Countless times, the bigger, stronger fighter pushed his opponent to the raised part of the pit and simply scored the easy double leg takedown. For a show that was claiming they had eradicated "lay and pray" with their new revolutionary surface, they had more decision wins from that very method than I had ever seen in any other MMA show. Also I can't imagine what it would have been like for the 5 or so people that attended who were on ground level and could only see the head of the fighter laying on top of his opponent due to the raised sides of the pit. The YAMMA Pit and the whole event in general basically proves that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".