Why is a kick from the ground illegal?!

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

huh Whats the logic behind that then?!

I mean from a completely naive spectator, the way he worked that shot in looked perfectly natural if anything... Please explain

A big part of getting MMA legal in the U.S. was the implementation of a universal set of rules. To appease the state licensing bodies the rule of no knees or kicks to the head of a downed fighter was added. Downed fighter being at a minimum of a knee on the mat. Clearly some fighters take advantage of it and it is widely considered a rule that should be changed but I don't think its something that is actually going to happen. I always found it interesting that Pride allowed kicks and knees to the head of a "downed" fighter but no elbow strikes.

Thanks for the explaination, well that stinks!
So you can strangle a guy on his back but the guy on his back cant kick the other guy while his doing it?!
Complete exploitation of a shitty loop hole man, really bad... It was such a classy shot!