I’ve taken close to ten years’ of martial arts training, but I don’t watch MMA because the judges consistently allow about two more head strikes than necessary before intervening. In a lot of the footage I have seen, that’s going from 2-3 to 4-5 which is egregious. Every single takedown ends up looking like a boxer getting trapped in the corner and massacred, and I don’t like those either. In fact I think boxing ring corners should be treated like fouls in baseball and count toward a TKO.
In MMA, if someone’s head is bouncing off the mat then you should be grabbing the opponent's elbow immediately.
In MMA, if someone’s head is bouncing off the mat then you should be grabbing the opponent's elbow immediately.