Throwing hard roundhouses is too tiring, that's why it wouldn't really be as effective if kickboxing or Muay thai fights were longer like in boxing and doesn't really work too well in MMA either
Pretty sure Ive seen plenty of MMA fights with guys throwing lots of roundhouse kicks. Its less common because it leaves you open to a takedown.
I'm actually pretty okay with Badr throwing his legacy on deep shit. Its kinda funny.
You will never see a high level MMA fight with guys spamming roundhouses, like you see with many southpaw thai fighters, petch, sittichai, yodsanklai etc. The takedowns are one issue but fatigue also is a major factor. Movement is more important in MMA than it is Muay thai, so fatiguing yourself with heavy roundhouses to an opponents guard and body is not a smart choice when it will severely limit your ability to sprawl, change levels and use footwork in general later in the fight. It's one thing to do that in a match that is only 9-15 minutes. It's entirely different when the match is 25-36 minutes
That's because nobody in MMA can throw roundhouses like them. Thai's throw roundhouses all day every day. Fatigue from roundhouses isn't an issue for them.
Off the top of my head didnt Jones spam middle and high kicks against Gustafson for half the fight including the 5th round? Im sure there are plenty more examples. In a sport with 4 oz gloves you will of course get more punches, just as 90s MT had 6 oz gloves and they used more punches than modern 8 oz MT, but this is an adaptation to the rules of MMA, not to the round length.
Well I responded to a comment that brought up how petch typically throws less body kicks in later rounds than he does early. It's because he's fatigued and doesn't have energy to throw kicks with the same force as he does early in fights. He isn't the only southpaw roundhouse heavy fighter Ive seen who gasses later in fights either. But fine let's not bring up other sports, let's just say that if kickboxing and Muay thai fights were longer, this would not be nearly as effective a strategy. Certain kickboxers like murthel groenhart and chingiz allazov have styles that benefit heavily from how short the fights are as well. That is my opinion
No it was a pretty vintage Jon Jones esque type performance where he utilized all his tools. Imo if rounds in Muay thai were longer you'd see much more clinching and more elbows and punching. In kickboxing it would just be a lot more punches and teeps I believe, and possibly more low kicks
No it's not, it's because he has the fight won and he's just coasting in those later rounds. I'm not sure I even agree with that being his tactic though, he's had plenty of fights where he's spammed roundhouses the whole fight. So has Yodsanklai, Sam-A, Sakmongkol and countless other Thais.
