basically the original piece that was put up on the internet that everyone went up in arms about was a very short resume of a big editorial from muaysiam and there was another big editorial on the same story the previous week, The initiative from Lumpini is to try and make clear the way the fights are judged and clinch and knee is not being penalised, if the fighter clinches up top and lands with strong knees, that land clean on the target and the opponent cant defend and that dont break any rules are all good scoring technique. They are trying to make clear that throwing the opponent down, or throwing a big barrage of knees that dont reallly land clean anywhere will not be given special consideration and to try and bring the art back to the fights and make them more exciting, The original translation as I said was very brief and no where near clear enough to explain what the stadium is trying to do.

Gary O'Brien STBA writes:

I was gutted when I heard this the other day, as I've spent a lot of time trying to learn and teach the subtle clinch and throwing techniques that have been popular in the modern game

this hasnt been a waste as it is not so much the subtle technical stuff that will be outlawed, more the out and out pure power only limited technique stuff. The likes of Saenchai spinning his opponent of balace and then following through with a hard sharp knee that his opponent cant stop will thrive even more under this change