Contact Sports
Headbutts are generally forbidden in most contact sports. However, it is a strike allowed in professional wrestling, Lethwei and Muay Boran bouts and Vale tudo fights. It is also the primary focus of Eritrean martial art Testa. Headbutts were a commonly used technique in mixed martial arts prior to the introduction of the unified rules of MMA
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