Fighters/techniques, you try to emulate in the gym

[Ananth]

Who are the fighters/specialists who you look up to and mold your game into. And what particular techniques you pick up from those fighters?

As far as styles are concerned, I personally think Jon Jones and Mousasi have the best styles of fighting. Least damage, while they can dish out a lot. Both can lead as well counter, so that's a plus.

Techniques they use are least energy consuming as well as effective. Jon has his wide range of kicks, oblique kicks, side kicks, these are all so easy to disguise and throw than a round house. Mousasi has that slick jab, the most basic and least energy consuming move in all of mma. Mousasi(and GSP) have the best of all in MMA. One more technique I'v always tried to emulate is teep kicks. Cowboy especially has a menacing teep kick. The way he ruined Jim Miller with it was glorious. Conor uses these teep kicks nicely as well from time to time (Mendes/Alvarez) etc.

 

[octagon888]

Big show

 

[Le Choad]

I trane nothing but north south position with mieshka Tate. She is a really good fighter.

 

[Megatronlee]

Honestly? Lately I've been watching a lot of randy couture. I'm fighting a muaythai guy on the 28th of January and I think a lot of Randy's clinch work will translate well at the regional level

 

[Ananth]

Honestly? Lately I've been watching a lot of randy couture. I'm fighting a muaythai guy on the 28th of January and I think a lot of Randy's clinch work will translate well at the regional level

That's good man and best of luck.

 

[wookie brawl]

I train boxing & emulate Miguel cotto.

 

[Moth Man]

Sometimes I find myself doing that popping left hook, Robert Whittaker does often.

 

[Ananth]

Sometimes I find myself doing that popping left hook, Robert Whittaker does often.

Similar to Fedor's lunging left hook?

 

[jagerbomber84]

I like to pop turinabol and do a line of coke then hide under the ring and pretend I'm Jon Jones .

 

[SCTwins]

Keith Hackney.

 

[just_got_here]

 

[Moth Man]

Similar to Fedor's lunging left hook?

Yeah. Here's a video if you wanna see it.

 

[anhedonia]

I try to use Maia's guard passing style sometimes. The half guard pass is simple and pretty easy to get to. His butterfly passing is timing based and is not so easy for me to do but I still work on it. I also never wrestled when I was a kid but I have taken a lot of little tricks from MMA which is loaded with wrestlers particularly the value of leg laces and head control.

 

[Ananth]

Yeah. Here's a video if you wanna see it.

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Looks similar to Fedor's left hook, without the push kick/front kick set up.

 

[theTKDguy]

I hit a rabona anderson silva style on my sparring partner yesterday. He was pissed lol

 

[Was at Pride GP 2000]

Lol. Nobody on sherdog UFC Forum actually train. All you pretenders....

Check out the grappling forum if you want to talk to people who actually have stepped foot in a martial art academy

 

[Pwent]

Jon jones was the one for years, that inspired me every fight, doing shit I never thought of and the next day I would be in the gym trying to learn that single leg->spinning elbow he did to bonnar or that leg lock->hammerfist he did to shogun

In terms of what my style is, I didnt try to specifically emulate them, but Anderson and Conor have the style I went for. With technical boxing combined with flashy unpredictable kicks when they step out of boxing range. I didn't try to specifically emulate anyone but my wrestling style is like Romero, with sudden overwhelming force takedowns from the outside

 

[James Baller]

When I was younger I'd try to emulate my dad, and also, I liked watching ESPN Classic's "Al Bernstein Boxing Hour" and mimicking some of those champion boxers when I hit the heavybag, the mits, eventually sparred.

Shane Mosley was one of my favorites as well, as I was a big fan, and felt like his style was very good (head movement, heavy bodywork, fast hands, emphasis on jabs to hooks, etc.).

I'll also add, Vitor Belfort was influential to me, as he was the fighter that brought my interest from boxing to MMA, and because of this, I eventually became interested in the other arts (jui-jitsu, thai boxing, wrestling). I never seriously thought of throwing kicks in a fight until I saw Vitor Belfort do it vs. Marvin Eastman. I was like, 11 or something.

 

[WhosJoeMama]

Cindy Dandois, dropping bombs. FTW

 

[j123]

Aldo. Typically I use alot of dutch combinations and it matches well.

GSP. I use the superman to leg kick alot. It works well in my gameplan from a check position. From there its beautiful to land

Woodley for fake double to overhand.

Overall its some material I like, but 99.9% of the techniques and gameplan comes from my coach and high level training partners