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I have a different relationship to both sports. I like boxing because I am uninvolved, while I have trained guys for some MMA situations.
People have to realize that MMA is still evolving rapidly towards a baseline. There is a vocabulary that a fighter has to have...thats a good thing because in the old days a a good jiu Jitsu player with ground skills could go far, now everyone has to know basic Jitz, striking and wrestling. There is a lot of science to the MMA game and there have been some standout fighters, like Fedorav.
Also don't kid yourself people, grapplers have a significant advantage...I don't even have to see you to be able to grab, respond tactily and take you down...a punch has to get from point a to point b, there has to be a correct distance, etc. grappler has such an easier time of it that it does not matter how fast a punch is delivered..also, Ju Jutsu has a whole bunch of ways of dealing with punches, its not just grab and take down, that is wrestling!
MMA will get a lot better as it becomes more and more its own style. Instead of practicing striking and wrestling, etc guys will eventually train MMA as a style, like the ancint Greeks did Pankethron, or, believe it or not, like the original Thai martial Arts were.
Actually the Roussey Holm fight was a seminal MMA fight because Holm showed that a Judo grappler of the highest order can be handled with good movement in the ring. Competative Judo players are very good, its anythng but just rolling around...actually Judo is a very scientific art and thats why Rhonda was so dominant.
So give mma a few years and you will see some of the subtlety that makes the art an interesting endevour...guys like Fedor with Sambo (Russian Judo) had that level of refinement actually.
I like em both. i like to train with MMA guys because they often are so sloppy and when they do basic Jiu Jutsu correctly they can't believe how effective they are technically lol... I love to watch and analyze boxing because I am detached from it.
Besides, you can't drink a gallon of beer, until you have rolls of fat and liquid plumbing up and down like a bag of jizz in your belly, scrunch said rolls into a too small tap out shirt, put a beenie on your pinhead and get into a bru haha in walmart as a boxing fan.
People have to realize that MMA is still evolving rapidly towards a baseline. There is a vocabulary that a fighter has to have...thats a good thing because in the old days a a good jiu Jitsu player with ground skills could go far, now everyone has to know basic Jitz, striking and wrestling. There is a lot of science to the MMA game and there have been some standout fighters, like Fedorav.
Also don't kid yourself people, grapplers have a significant advantage...I don't even have to see you to be able to grab, respond tactily and take you down...a punch has to get from point a to point b, there has to be a correct distance, etc. grappler has such an easier time of it that it does not matter how fast a punch is delivered..also, Ju Jutsu has a whole bunch of ways of dealing with punches, its not just grab and take down, that is wrestling!
MMA will get a lot better as it becomes more and more its own style. Instead of practicing striking and wrestling, etc guys will eventually train MMA as a style, like the ancint Greeks did Pankethron, or, believe it or not, like the original Thai martial Arts were.
Actually the Roussey Holm fight was a seminal MMA fight because Holm showed that a Judo grappler of the highest order can be handled with good movement in the ring. Competative Judo players are very good, its anythng but just rolling around...actually Judo is a very scientific art and thats why Rhonda was so dominant.
So give mma a few years and you will see some of the subtlety that makes the art an interesting endevour...guys like Fedor with Sambo (Russian Judo) had that level of refinement actually.
I like em both. i like to train with MMA guys because they often are so sloppy and when they do basic Jiu Jutsu correctly they can't believe how effective they are technically lol... I love to watch and analyze boxing because I am detached from it.
Besides, you can't drink a gallon of beer, until you have rolls of fat and liquid plumbing up and down like a bag of jizz in your belly, scrunch said rolls into a too small tap out shirt, put a beenie on your pinhead and get into a bru haha in walmart as a boxing fan.
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