5. No Leg Kick TKOs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pF50VOIPkY Regular KO/TKOs may be irksomely easy, but TKOs via leg kicks are impossible. MMA fans the world over will know all too well that a TKO stoppage can occur for many different reasons ranging from unanswered punches to the head, to body shorts and gnarly looking injuries to a fighters limbs (UFC 168). THQs previous UFC game recognised this, allowing you to achieve an ultra-satisfying TKO victory via leg kicks if you caused enough damage to the legs. If you hit your opponents legs with enough heavy kicks they would eventually keel over and force the referee to jump in and rescue them. Unfortunately, this method of victory cant be earned in EA UFC. For a game attempting to be so realistic, it comes as a great surprise that you cannot win in this way. This gives the fighter less incentive to go for strikes not aimed at the head. Obviously you can still cause damage through leg kicks but you must ultimately still go for a victory by ground-and-pound once you have forced your opponent to the mat by attacking their legs. Its not as if weve never seen TKO victories due to damage sustained to a fighters leg in the UFC before in particular, lightweight Edson Barboza, who coincidently isnt in the game, is known for achieving TKO victories by leg damage.
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