I made a thread yesterday about body shots cancelling uppercuts and this is kind of about the same thing, except I'm making a more extensive post. I don't know enough about the game mechanics to suggest a solution, but I know enough about MMA to identify that this is a problem.
Firstly, body shots are very unrealistic. In real life, they are landed when someone is hugging their hands to their due to being hurt or are expecting the attacker to combo high, in other words, they are trying to defend rather than attack. In this game, people can land body shots regardless of what the other person is doing.
In these GIFs, you can see that Gaethje is hugging his arms to his head as he is expecting Alvarez to go high, as previously in the fight, Alvarez was throwing 3 strike combinations starting with a jab.
You can see in this video that I was CLEARLY expecting the Robbie player to go low and on about 3 occasions I countered him as he went down, but this was still not enough to deter him from doing so. Why is this? You'd think that after being countered multiple times, there'd be something in the game that would discourage the player from using the exact same technique that got him countered in the first place.
My biggest gripe is the cancelling of uppercuts with body punches. You can clearly see in the following video that an attempt to uppercut was made at 0:30, as I was trying to use the uppercut hook combo, but only the lead hook comes out. You'd think that timing an uppercut as the person goes to strike the body should result in a reward.
At 0:40, I counter the body shots TWICE in the space of 4 seconds and my reward for this is minimal. Despite the rock on the second counter, I would like to think that the first would have resulted in a rock, to begin with. I counter him yet again at 0:53. He could have also been going for the body shot at 0:57 when I countered him with the hook, but it's hard to tell.
I assure you the input for the uppercut at 1:06 was put in multiple times while he was attacking the body, but due to the body shots cancelling uppercuts, I think the uppercut only came out the 3rd time I put the input in. Same thing occurs at 1:26 I believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kikier1QxIA
So there's your problem. Can you guys think of solutions?