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None of the UFC fighters can wear gis anymore. Someone with more knowledge about the sport can chime in here, but its been shorts only for the past couple years, perhaps more.

Its not a rule put in specifically for this fight, or anything.

Historians wanna chime in as to why?

yasher

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Like I said, it's probably because you can use it to choke people. So if the other guy isn't wearing a gi, he's at a disadvantage. That's how Royce beat Shamrock the first time, and he tried using an Ezekiel choke in their second fight, I believe. I remember reading (or watching) Royce explain why he wears the gi and part of it was that it soaks up some of the other guy's sweat and makes him a little easier to hang on to and part of it was that the other guy likes to grab it and if he's grabbing on to the gi, he's not punching Royce in the face. And then of course you can choke people with it.