Weight Classes:
Lightweight: 140 & Below - 63.63 kg & Below
Welterweight: 140.1 - 155 lbs. - 63.64 - 70.45 kg.
Light Middleweight: 155.1 - 170 lbs. - 70.46 - 77.27 kg.
Middleweight: 170.1 - 185 lbs. - 77.28 - 84.09 kg.
Light Heavyweight: 185.1 - 200 lbs. - 84.10 - 90.90 kg.
Heavyweight: 200.1 - 220 lbs. 90.91 - 100 kg.
Super Heavyweight: 220.1 lbs. & UP - 100.1 kg & UP.
Illegal techniques:
Biting.
Eye-Gouging (including with chin or forehead)
Pulling, pushing on opponent's face.
Kicks and Knees TO THE HEAD & NECK to a fighter who is "on the ground". (when the fighter kicked is not in a "2-point position", standing or crouching on his feet).
Fish hooks (to the eyes, nose, ear, or mouth)
Hair pulling.
Groin strikes.
Small joint manipulation (finger and toe locks)
No fingertip or knuckle gouging to the face or any part of the body (including into the throat)
No strikes to the: throat, groin, spine.
No fingertip strikes or rakes.
Lifting, pushing, throwing, or otherwise forcing an opponent over the cage.
Two handed chokes applied directly to the throat and/or windpipe.
No downward or "spiking" elbow strikes.