After the Ferttita brothers bought UFC and put Dana in charge they had to deal with the outcry by Sen McCain on the "human cockfighting" moniker and the fact that it was a lawless production...their response, which was brilliant, was to hire Marc Ratner away from NSAC and start getting sanctioned throughout the US....to do this they had to have weightclasses and rounds, but they also had to give up certain rules such as kicking a fighter on the ground...many MMA purists hope to lobby NSAC and others to allow knees on the ground....a recent NSAC ordeal was Nick Diaz's stunnig victory over Takanorim Gomi being made a NC and Diaz being suspended for 6 months b/c he tested positive for marajuana...