The Sport Blog
In a real life fight, the Guillotine move and many other Mount-locks (when a person sits on top another person) would not work in a real toe-to-toe evenly matched fight, says martial artists and critics of the MMA sport. It would seem today's MMA Professional fighting rules have allowed a strange favor to one of the old dirty fighting grappling locks, the Guillotine move, but the MMA does not allow their very dirty counter moves.
Historically a dirty fight was getting someone on the ground to choke them as were things like eye-gouging and ear ripping, all off the table moves. Only about a decade or two ago was choking-out someone even considered a 'legal' Professional fighting move. In an open one-on-one combat, the Art of Judo would be useful and the counter moves would be available to fend off grappling, but in a Professional Sport, where there are very limited methods of fighting that can be applied without permanently injuring someone, the Guillotine should have never been allowed because it's regularly used counter moves are banned. It is also wondered why the Guillotine was allowed and who allowed it to slip through the rule book.
Fighter: "It's ok to smash someone's face in, but you can't smash their balls in? It's ok to break someone's leg, but not their toes? Thailand Boxing rules allow legs and punches, but not dirty grappling for a reason, because the counter-moves are just as dirty. It's annoying seeing some softy guy on TV yelling and screaming like he's the Greatest Fighter on earth, when all he did was headlock his opponent in a Guillotine. Look where the opposing guy is, in most cases, the guy in the headlock is in a perfect position to do a very very dirty counter move (a nut Grip), but that counter move is conveniently not allowed"
According to an ex-Samoa fighter the dirty Counter-move to the dirty Guillotine Lock is a "Nut-Grab" but those types of counter moves will no doubt remain banned and rightfully so, the argument is that the Guillotine should be banned as well.