Will Nick Diaz Style Plastic Surgery Become the Norm in MMA?

With stand-and-bang fighting earning big fight-of-the-night honors, this kind of surgery is going to have plenty of clients. Diego Sanchez and Martin Kampmann should go ahead and schedule appointments for 2012.

Diego Sanchez should look into this….

I don’t have problems with this. At the same time, I don’t think it gives that much of an advantage unless you’re of the “Look at his face and look at mine!” school of judging.

They don’t necessarily reflect a big strike or real effectiveness by the other fighter, but can definitely influence judging and even the fight. Finding a way to reduce them has to be a good thing right?

it’s like saying someone needed knee surgury and had a totally aritificle knee put in and in their next fight with paul harris when he is cranking on that knee the fighter looks at paul and just laffs. shaving down bone? this is making physical alterations so as to provide an advantage, remove the tissue but man shaving down bone is going too far. maybe we have to classify different performance enhancing surgeries.

if he got botox injections in his face it would hurt when dos santos bring his reign of terror to poor brocks facial anatomy and then brock can commence with his take down and subsequent gnp.

“fights stopped on cuts suck for all involve” how about the guy who is getting his hand raised?

Get back to me when fighters start having elective surgery to have metal plates and the like put into their body for an advantage.

this has got to be the most ridiculous. If the structure of your face makes you naturally more susceptible to cuts than a “normal” person, and there’s a procedure that fixes that, how on earth is that a problem?

You have to really torture the definition of performance enhancement to lump this surgery in with things like steroids and EPO. The real problem with performance enhancing drugs in MMA (besides the competitive advantage) is that they allow users to batter and harm their opponents more effectively than they would be able to naturally. This surgery just evens the playing field between guys like Diego and Marcus Davis that cut if you breathe on them funny, and guys like BJ Penn, who you could hit with a spiked bat and not open up.

The surgery repairs damage done. It doesn’t enhance natural ability.

/debate

I’d get my elbows and knees ground into sharp points, like Abomination from HULK.

Or more realistically, could you get titanium plates grafted onto your elbows and knees? Would that help?

I’d see about getting an extra hinge put in my leg so it bends forwards if I were fighting Paul Harris next

This sort of like if a young pitcher decided to get Tommy John surgery without having blown his UCL first – because Tommy John surgery tends to increase pitch velocities.

I can see why some people might object to elective surgery that improves performance rather than just restores lost performance.

However, I have no such objection.

even when he’s unconscious.

It’s a japanese manga when at one point there is this crazy-ass tournament called ZOTT (short for Zenith Of Things but since they’re japanese and not entirely english literate they fucked it up, I guess) where people would just waste resources like maniacs in a form of insane martial arts arms race to win the tournament ala PRIDE GP’s, and there was zero regulation to go along with it.

Damn…those were good times.