Any tips? At one point I was 16-7, but I've free falling for the last two days (did a patch come out???)  and now I'm 18-15! Most of the matches I've losing have been while defending the full mount. Often I can escape from the position but not without taking a ton of damage from 4 or 5 direct blows. 

it depends man. I had a good record, but started to get dominated. you could try a submission or just try a major transition or left bumper and major transition. unfortunaly they can counter and I haven't been all to great against people who counter everything. I would like to say I'm good, but until I learn how to fight against counters I won't make it to far up the ladder.  

I usually lose because of the full mount. I don't know how to defend it and I just get knocked out right away. Kind of annoying.

Defending against somebody who knows how to full mount, like myself, is damn hard. It can be lights out in under a minute to a guy with no ground game. Yet even I get caught out from time to time by full mount. Last night me and a guy spent 2 minutes on the floor, not a single punch was thrown, each of us doing maj trans after maj trans, rolling over and over like lovers in a field...

He knew I was trying to go to full mount, and I got it a few times but he instantly grabbed my head and pulled me down. (this is getting worryingly homo-erotic). Eventually, he got behind me, wrapped his arms and legs around me and pulled me to submission. Ahem.

What Im trying to say is, if you dont put the time in training mode, a guy with great ground game is gonna waste you. If you have great ground game like myself, in then becomes a lottery as to who gets full mount and rocks their opponent first. After that its game over.

What a frustrating morning Ive just had. I went from having 24-13 to 27-20. Lyoto Machida is getting particulary difficult to defend against. He has great body kicks and then on the ground will usually get me by submission. Ive actually worn off the rubber dotds on my analogue sticks over the past day.

Chuck Liddel is also pretty hard to face when somebody has solid ground blocking game. Trading punches with him is always gonna end in tears, yet getting him on the ground with a guy who knows your a full mount/submission player is equally as difficult.

Forest Griffin used to be a partiularly difficult player to face, although now I always thrash him first round. Get them in a half clinch and just uppercut him to the head, eventually get him on full mount and its lights out.

This game is frustrating because you know that when you lose, youve just been outclassed. But when you win, equally its excellent.

Muay Thai clinches are harder for me to get out of then the full mount for some reason. very annoying when you can only watch in horror after you've taken about 10 knees to the face and still can't break it.

lol yup. Just sitting there going "ARRRRGGGHHH!!"

Full mount in this game is way too easy to achieve. Even when you're really good at the floor game, getting out of it in one piece is almost impossible. This game is good, but there seems to be a few balancing issues.

I got so sick of the game, and the seemingly arbitrary online submissions, I sold it today. And I was virtually driving the UFC 2009 bandwagon in the last month. Hopefully for the next game, they can balance out the incredibly overpowered ground game, where putting a submission on a guy is as easy as clicking in the stick.

As far as defending the mount, when you get taken down, just hold the R stick back to block any transitions your opponent tries. Once he tries one or two, right after the second one, try to major transition out of it.

A great way to easily prevent the mount is play a solid BJJ fighter and immediately rubber guard > sweep them when they take you down; if you're confident in your own ground game, get underhooks and pull them into your guard and try the same thing. People either tend to flail in an attempt to get out of your rubber guard and can become easy submission targets if you can't sweep them into mount.

Clinch Defense -  The best thing to do in this situation is to hold the block button.. the knees to the head are the ones that really hurt... let them wear them selves down. When they are clinching you, their energy goes down fast. While this is a good defense.. you will need to get good at timing their body knees and head punches. Press up or down on the right stick to take them down  or reverse the clinch....