We gotta learn mma brehs...

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Another Man said:
No it's not, but ok. Many elements that have been successful in MMA fights have also been tested and proven to be effective in street fights as well. Now, can or should some be using the same TACTICS or STRATEGY one would use from either situation in the other, of course not. However, you forget that one of the earliest forms of MMA as a sport is vale tudo/luta livre which was no holds barred, no rules/anything goes bareknuckle fighting. Those were about the closest one could get to legally competing in street fights, and those also proved which arts were effective and which would get your ass stomped. South America was the home of this shyt any many Brazilian fighters have roots in it from their early days of fighting, not to mention that many fighters came from impoverished, highly dangerous corners of the world where fighting for survival was pretty much inevitable. Pretty sure they know first hand about what works in sport and what works in a street fight breh. The Gracies, for example, stayed getting tested in the streets too, biggest reason they're so known aside from competition, they earned their clout amongst killers. Matter fact, many traditional BJJ heads from that region call the American grappling and fighting scene "p*ssy" in comparison to theirs because it's so safe and watered down.
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I got in more than my fair share of fights in the 90s and early 2000s..... and ran with a gang of head bussas....... so my perspective is skewed to a degree... reason why I bring this up because one of partners who I ran with was military and ended up living in the Philippines for over 5 years.... and he studied/trained in Filipino martial arts the whole time he was there and ended up being good enough to become a certified instructor..... nice with the sticks and the whole 9........ he did a lot of that Japanese flavored jujutsu too...... now this cat like 6 feet 220 and has the strength of the bear like a lot of other country nikkas down here..... and about 2.5 years into his training, he was thankful of the mental aspects it helped him improve in and talked about how efficient it was in neutralizing or even hurting people.... but one thing he made clear to emphasize is that he was doing it in contest situations..... and his absurd strength relative to Asians gave him an advantage..... then he flat out said that a lot of these techniques ain’t gon work with a lot of them nikkas we used to get into it with back in the day.... one reason is because a lot of them nikkas was to strong/explosive to implement... and due to it being a street fight and having to keep your head on a swivel due to unpredictability, a lot of moves you would use in a contest could have very lil applicability out in the streets.... but his mind may have changed now since he’s been doing this for about a decade now
 
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I don't think there's such thing as "X-fighting style is better than Z-fighting style."

From an MMA standpoint, your best chance is to pick one martial art as your specialty (boxing, bjj, judo etc) and become a borderline master at that discipline. Then you turn around and find a complementary martial art to cover your weakness. If John Smith goes through Golden Gloves and becomes a top-notch amateur boxer, he should probably learn some BJJ to compliment his striking ability. Dude doesn't have to be a black belt or coral belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but just hit the upper end of blue, maybe lower purple. Just enough to know what you're doing on the ground.

The grappler has the same issue. In order to be versatile, he needs to learn a striking/stand-up style of fighting to make himself more well-rounded. Otherwise, he'll spend the whole fight trying to bring it to the ground and risk taking a lot of punishment because of his stand-up deficiency.

As for boxer versus grappler? One isn't really better than the other. The key is.......who is better at their own discipline. If you put prime Mike Tyson against a purple belt BJJ fighter with modest tournament experience, Mike would probably win in the octagon. Put a prime Royce Gracie against a dude that's been boxing for 3 years.........Gracie probably twists him into a pretzel.
 
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Gold said:
They wont listen to you. They have some weird connections to boxing like if they were once former world champions or some shyt.

Boxing is not a complete martial art, period. It just isnt.

Now if you're fighting someone with 0 training, your boxing will demolish them... easily. But vs someone with mma training, you're food on the ground
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A complete martial art doesn’t exist period
 
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The Hierophant said:
The best fighters in the world are Isreal Adesanya, Demetrious Johnson, John Jones, Murtel Grunehart and Cedric Doumbe. 3 out of the 5 of these men is African and 2 are AA. Anyone who thinks Mma is a cac thing shows how ignorant they are.
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I haven't tuned in like forever. I wasn't a huge fan of the sport but I always watched Anderson Silva because he was like a walking highlight reel.
 
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Stringer Cochran said:
just learn how to box. You would ko one of them cacs when they leave themselves open trying to grab you.
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Boxing is great but not every person has knockout power in their fists especially because most BJJ users brace themselves to take punches as long as they protect the chin, temple, and nose.

It’s very hard to knock someone out that has taken punches and is bracing themselves to be hit without a combination.

Even if you box, you need to learn how to grapple and deal with grappling because the last place you want to learn is in the middle of a fight.

I’d also suggest some wrestling too but wrestling moves can turn fatal on hard surfaces so he very careful.
 
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@Master Teacher :pachaha:

Jon Jones vs. who? How Dominick Reyes went from high school IT guy to UFC 247 title contender
Hallie Grossman ESPN Staff Writer
6:00 AM CT

"IN THE SUMMER of 2017, at a cramped desk parked in a cluttered office, Dominick Reyes pulls up a video of one of the biggest MMA stars on the planet and starts to dream. Maybe that'll be him soon.

All around him is the detritus of academia. His office, for all intents and purposes, is an oversized storage room -- a repository for Oak Hills High School's extra printers and projectors and boxes bursting with spare wires that spring out from every crevice like overgrown weeds. He shares this U-shaped desk with his sidekick Nate Stokes -- the Ethel to his Lucy. They make up the IT support tag team at this high school in the High Desert of Southern California. The two sit no more than 3 feet away from each other for hours on end, mining crumbs out of keyboards and cracking password lockouts. On weight-cutting days, Reyes can smell his co-star's Del Taco while he shoves down lentils. It boasts all the glamour of steerage."

"On the days they manage to burn through the tickets, all those Maydays sent by the Oak Hills staff for technological rescuing, Stokes will scoot to Reyes' end of the desk. They'll huddle by Reyes' computer to scour video clips, because for now Reyes is the resident IT professional with an MMA side hustle."

Can a former high school IT guy take down Jon Jones?



 
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