Any shootfighters in the UFC?

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Are there any shootfighters currently in the UFC, and do you think there is room for shootfighting as a martial art to make a comeback in MMA?
 
What is shootfighting
 
When is trap fighting making a comeback? Or pit fighting?
 
Kyoji Horiguchi is in the UFC. I don't think he has ever fought under classic shoot fighting rules but he was the shooto champion.
 
One of my old bjj instructors had a certificate in shoot fighting under Bart vale. Was weird.
 
What actually is Shootfighting? I've always heard of it, assumed it was people who fought with parachutes attached to them.
 
Gomi is
And Gusstafason competed in shootfighting
 
Siyar Bahadurzada, John Hathaway, Claudio Da Silva also if he comes back Dan Hardy.
 
Shootfighting is essentially the non-fake version of pro wrestling. It features many submission holds that we don't see in the BJJ-heavy Octagon (Full nelson, for instance). Ken Shamrock was 100% shootfighter

Unfortunately, the reason we don't see those moves at the top level is because BJJ is the superior of the two styles, and most shootfighting techniques can be defended too easily by modern fighters. Hell, even most BJJ subs have become obsolete in the cage nowadays unless the loser is half KOed first.
 
Superlative said:
Are there any shootfighters currently in the UFC, and do you think there is room for shootfighting as a martial art to make a comeback in MMA?
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Dude, you know...shootfighting is a great great art...that has been dismissed by mma...if anyone would benefit from it, it would be someone who has two arts mastered under his belt....that person would be the person who mastered boxing and wrestling....he would be a bad mother fo....and no one will understand this though until it happens. But, good pick up...your right on....it is a missed art but it will only apply to those two things mastered...wreslting and boxing.....
 
Insaniteus said:
Shootfighting is essentially the non-fake version of pro wrestling. It features many submission holds that we don't see in the BJJ-heavy Octagon (Full nelson, for instance). Ken Shamrock was 100% shootfighter

Unfortunately, the reason we don't see those moves at the top level is because BJJ is the superior of the two styles, and most shootfighting techniques can be defended too easily by modern fighters. Hell, even most BJJ subs have become obsolete in the cage nowadays unless the loser is half KOed first.
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the fact that Sakuraba could cancel out so many Gracie's is what gives me belief that it could come back as a discipline
 
Insaniteus said:
Shootfighting is essentially the non-fake version of pro wrestling. It features many submission holds that we don't see in the BJJ-heavy Octagon (Full nelson, for instance). Ken Shamrock was 100% shootfighter

Unfortunately, the reason we don't see those moves at the top level is because BJJ is the superior of the two styles, and most shootfighting techniques can be defended too easily by modern fighters. Hell, even most BJJ subs have become obsolete in the cage nowadays unless the loser is half KOed first.
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BJJ is not superior to Shoot fighting. It just so happens that BJJ caught on in the UFC and North America. Shoot fighting is more the style of choice in Japan. BJJ had its ass handed to it in Japan courtesy of shoot.
 
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