Jeez, friend, a little anxious. Here you go.
Tales of derring-do, bad and good luck tales
Jeez, friend, a little anxious. Here you go.
Tales of derring-do, bad and good luck tales
When 2 highly skilled people fight the fight is about who can bring who into their world. Typically the guy with no ground experience will lose that exchange. You've got to deal with it. Still, bjj guys who only study bjj with no standup are pretty much going to make food out of anyone with no training on up to one dimensional strikers with no grappling experience.
Debatable. All I gotta say is..there's a reason why the Gracies hand picked competitors for the first UFC events...and those picked weren't exactly world beaters...more like McDojo artists and weekend warriors.
Yet here we are today in MMA there are ZERO pure strikers in the ring. People with no ground game cannot exist among mixed martial artists. Lets update our skillsets and become good at grappling so we dont get crushed and tarnished out of stubborness.
Nor are there pure grapplers.
But this isnt about the sport of MMA in which one is required to be well rounded....this is about the claim that someone skilled in jiu jitsu alone would beat almost anyone else trained one dimensionally...which once again is BS. The first UFCs don't mean much as far as BJJ's dominance because 1. Royce went against ppl more suited to fit his style of fighting 2. BJJ is almost obsolete today. If your wrestling is on point there isn't much BJJ can do. Besides...its not the style...its the individual. All a pure striker would have to do is learn how to sprawl and he'd eat a BJJ fighter's food easily...how else would he get him to the ground?
You sound silly. There isnt one wrestler competing at a high level in MMA that does not train brazillian jiujitsu. You have to learn brazillian jiujitsu to know how to avoid submission and fight BJJ artists because if you dont, you will be crushed. Wrestling is a great base for grappling but no wrestler that competes in MMA would be silly enough to say he doesnt have to study BJJ because his wrestling is so good.
Royce fought people at a time where no one was putting it all together. Once people started training and studying BJJ and combing that with wrestling and striking the graices took a backseat but their impact on the sport itself is legendary and cannot be just brushed away friend im sorry.
You kinda strayed from your BJJ is the ultimate style arguement...but I'll play your game. If it is...then why are the overwhelming majority of fighters dominating either wrestling or striking based? Yeah...you gotta learn BJJ to defend...but that's about it, and over time you're seeing BJJ becoming less and less of a factor these days because its become more and more difficult and risky to use it offensively, seeing that alot of jits offense comes off your back. Once again, without the superior positioning tactics of wrestling, a bjj based fighter isnt getting far these days, and such positioning combined with bjj defense = bjj fighter getting his shyt pushed in as he desperately goes for a sub. Now no ones saying that Bjj wasnt a big factor in MMA, nor that its not a factor now, but it isnt this end-all-be-all style you're making it out to be. All of the styles involved in MMA today are factors...BJJ as a factor however....is shrinking. Example: Royce/Hughes. Both are ground specialists, trained in both BJJ and wrestling....Royce more so BJJ and Hughes wrestling....by your logic Royce should've dominated Matt due to superior BJJ....but of course we all know how that went down