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Originally Posted by Anthony
Yeah, I misread that. My bad.
I agree with you actually, in MMA, you have to be skilled in every facet. I'll use GSP as an example, he's probably the archetype of what a true MMA fighter should be. Excellent wrestling, excellent hands and kicks, and excellent submissions.
Earlier in this thread or maybe another, I made a comment that BJJ only fighters have been left behind. I used Royce vs Hughes as an example, Hughes considers himself BB level, if they used Belts at MFS, and his wrestling dominated that fight.
Another great example that comes to mind is Rani Yahya vs Chase Bebe (WEC 30 LW Championship). Rani is a world BJJ Champion, and it showed in the first round, I think he threw like 12 submissions attempts and had Chase in a sunk in kneebar, which he got out of. Chase came back and beat Rani.
All cases of a well rounded MMA fighter beating a one dimensional fighter. No argument there. I think I made my case already about if I only had one to train in.  |
yea i saw that fight, i've seen rani fight 2x in wec...i cant remember if it was his first or second fight i saw where ALL he did was shoot in over & over & over again - and paid dearly for it
however, if i had ONE fight style to train in only, it would be bjj as well...since nearly every standup/street fight ends up in a tussle (no matter how briefly), a knowledge of bjj would be very handy!
hey anthony are you going to phoenix??