Hey, interesting stuff Heavy D. I understand not wanting to lose because of being cut and not being able to stop it. In HS/collegiate style wrestling, they have blood rules to deal with this. Obviously, the rules are applied quite rigorously in HS and even if a drop of blood appears, things are halted immediately to deal with it -- a bit hysterical of course. College isn't so anal about it, but still has rules that deal with it. If bleeding can't be controlled, the match eventually ends as blood time runs out. Its a reasonable method for dealing with it. But this still isn't all out combat, naturally. So I wouldn't expect the same rules to apply in martial arts contests. What I really detest, and others, who like watching, but not participating in, MMA, is the obvious presence of blood and the lack of any effort to clean it up -- or to really have any method for halting blood flow. At some point, if fighters are on the ground and all of the action is taking place in very close proximity to the cut, and that same action is taking place in the blood pool, it is just ugly -- the sort of thing that turns off people who pay, but not to watch blood fountains and consequent pools and participants swimming around in it. Less tolerant payees don't understand this, and I'm not sure they should -- as I really don't either, and I have been involved in wrestling for about 40 years now. You mix this up with the seemingly planned boredom of UFC 61, and lots of folks will find other ways to spend $40.