CSAC Director Andy Foster PASSIONATELY Fights to Ban Oblique Kicks, Fixing Eye Pokes, Slap Fighting

always love my chats with the headman over at the California State Athletic Commission. As I say time and again, the gold standard when it comes to combat sports regulation and there's a lot of really interesting things happening right now in the world of combat sports. And so without further ado, let us say

hello to the one and only Andy Foster who's kind enough to take some time out of his day. Hello Andy, how are you? Great to hear from you. Great to see you again. >> Hey Ariel, thanks for having me on. Uh you had a big show just a couple weekends ago in Los Angeles uh UFC 331

at the Crypto.com Arena. Some really interesting talking points came out of that event and as of late in combat sports. So I wanted to pick your brain. It's always a great um you know an opportunity for us to to hear from in my opinion one of the smartest in the game. Uh one of the big topics over the past

week has been the banning of oblique kicks. you have been at the forefront of this and my understanding is you would like for them to go. Accurate and if so why? >> Yeah, I I I think it's time. Um I think that they're more risk than we should require our fighters to to to have to

deal with uh to participate in in mixed martial arts. This is a kick that has long uh long healing time and can have really a lifelong effect. And fighters have a short window and at some point they're going to be done with this. And this kick is really I mean it it's it got its

name. It's about that for that oblique ligament, the back of the knee. It you essentially get the uh the unhappy triad or whatever as the doctors call it. you bust all all of those ligaments at once if that if this thing lands right. And uh somebody could have a lifelong uh injury from this um that they're