I think they need to standardise rules for point deductions. Outstretched finger leading to an eye poke, one point. Clear groin strike, one point. Cage grab, one point and the fight resumes with the cage grabber in his opponent's full guard. Knee to the head of a downed opponent, one point.
Also use replays during the timeout in the case of fouls and if a fighter is found to be faking a foul for the point deduction then the fight is over and the opponent gets the TKO/DQ win.
They also should get rid of the 12-6 elbows rule because it's stupid and the same with upkicks but if they don't then same one point rule applies.
Giving a warning first in every case basically gives every fighter one free groin strike, one free eye poke and one free cage grab.
You have guys like Ponzinibbio, Jones (granted not in his most recent fight), Faber and plenty more winning fights directly off the back of eye pokes that are careless at best and deliberate at worst. Browne eye gouged Mitrione multiples times and didn't even lose a single point, you could make a case for a DQ there for multiple fouls of the same nature and not even one point deduction. Groin strikes and cage grabs potentially changing the course of fights including two title fights that I can think of (Aldo/Mendes, Woodley/Maia off the top of my head) and nothing is being done about it with any consistency... why should Alex Caceres be docked TWO points by Herb dean for a groin strike when he regularly lets fighters off with a warning and there are plenty of fighters where a fighter has been on the receiving end of two groin strikes with no penalty, or Mitrione/Browne etc.
They really need to standardise the rules for fouls the current system is absurd and while the Maia/Woodley cage grab is far from the worst foul committed recently, it was so clearly deliberate why would future fighters not just grab the cage to stop a takedown if they haven't been warned yet in the fight.
Here's a granted very old link of point deductions all of which have led to warnings in various other fights, it makes no sense (hell, in the case of Belfort vs Akiyama he finished him with punches to the back of the head, and in Erick Silva's case he got DQ'd against Prater, yet in the listed fight it was a point deduction - no consistency at all)
http://mmadecisions.com/blog.jsp?id=65
The Figueroa/Caceres point deduction being 2 points makes it even weirder. Sure if that's the standard penalty, but it's not like that fight stands alone for 'most egregious low blows in UFC history' or anything (disclaimer the fight was like 5 years ago so I may not have the clearest memory of it but I did see the fight and I remember thinking a point deduction was fine but two points was weird)
Granted the Browne/Mitrione fight might have had other factors in play
http://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/matt-...-browne-bout2/
But a standardised point deduction system for stuff like this would prevent shady discretionary refereeing (which in this case may have been corruption or incompetence it doesn't really matter if the refs have a clear guideline to follow they have to do that, but they currently don't)