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The rules say nothing about 12 to 6. Why the standing positions would matter seems quite inconsequential.
First of all, think about how a unspoken 12 to 6 positioning rule would occur. If the downward elbow point strikes were only illegal when the fighter is perfectly perpendicular to the mat.... that would hardly ever happen. I can only think of two occurences were it would: if the violator was being carried around by his opponent or if the opponent is kneeling down.
Personally, I think standing or grounded..... using the point of the elbow as a weapon is just as unfair. It's not like the point of the elbow becomes much less of an advantage without the violators full body weight, which would not occur being carried.
Call me crazy but the rule would state it as such if it was part of the rules. It doesn't.
It says striking downward using the point of the elbow is illegal.
The snake oil salesmen can spin all they want. I would expect nothing less from the Dana White administration.
I would like to see fighters expose the hypocrisy. If Silva and Florian can prevent opponents from mounting them by using downward elbow points..... why not everybody else? The reality is they would treat the situation just like they did with Lesnar and cheat for their guy regradless.
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