One of the more unpopular laws in the Professional Fighters League (PFL) is no more.

Donn Davis, the founder and chairman of the fight league, announced on Monday that the promotion was formally lifting a rule imposed outside of the unified rules of mixed martial arts which had prohibited the use of elbows in many fights. Elbows, however, were permitted in non-season fights.

“New Year … New Adjustments. YOU asked for ELBOWS, PFL is giving you elbows,” Davis wrote on the social network previously known as Twitter. “All elbows. All fights. All the time.”

The strikes have been previously outlawed due to the regularity which they produced cuts which could potentially impede the PFL’s season-based structure. Cuts can often produce medical suspensions which would restrict a fighter’s capacity to perform on relatively short notice.

Elbows, though, were allowed at the promotion’s October ‘Battle of the Giants’ card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in which Francis Ngannou made his debut for the promotion with a swift TKO win over Brazilian heavyweight Renan Ferreira.

On the same card, Irish lightweight Paul Hughes (pictured above) earned a shot at the Bellator (which PFL owns) lightweight title with a win against the experienced AJ McKee.

Hughes fights the unbeaten Usman Nurmadomedov on January 25.