RULES

The following acts constitute fouls in a contest or exhibition of mixed martial arts and may result in penalties, at the discretion of the referee, if committed:

- Butting with the head

- Eye gouging of any kind

- Biting or spitting at an opponent

- Fish hooking (act of inserting a finger or fingers or one or both hands into the mouth or nostrils or a person, pulling away from the centerline of the body)

- Hair pulling

- Spiking an opponent to the canvas on his head or neck

- Strikes to the spine or the back of the head.

- Throat strikes of any kind, and/or grabbing the trachea