MMA Fighting · Jan 20, 2017
Fighters react to new Unified Rules being in effect for Bellator 170
LOS ANGELES — There are a handful of new rules in MMA and, for the most part, fighters are ready to embrace them. None more so than Colleen Schneider.
The women’s MMA veteran joked Thursday that her entire offensive arsenal at Bellator 170 will be comprised only of the alterations made recently to the Unified Rules of MMA.
“All I’ve been practicing is standing heel kicks to the kidneys,” Schneider told MMA Fighting. “Instead of spin hook kicking people to the head, I’ve just been spin hook kicking people to the kidneys. It’s gonna be great. I’m gonna fight using exclusively things that are now legal in the new rule set. I’m gonna grab someone by the clavicle and heel kick ’em in the kidney.”