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Stipe is obviously standing on top of something on higher ground
Stipe is obviously standing on top of something on higher ground
In boxing you just going to train a few techniques around hand attacks. In MMA you have to train boxing techniques, wrestling techniques, BJJ techniques, kicking, kneeing, elbowing and learning how to do deal with all kinds of weird stuff like spinning attacks. It's much more complex.
You can teach technique, but not athleticism.
JDS trained 1 year boxing, few months BJJ and KOd Werdum.
More like 5+ years of boxing.
Didn’t Brock Lesnar teach us that the stereotype ultra-male means nothing if you cannot handle an onslaught of punches to the face? LeBron could crumple from a single shot to the dome for all we know.
Codys style is literally 90% boxing: basic TDD, boxing footwork and counters.
Being "good" / mediocre and bad in many things is not hard.
Most of the time they only learn a single aspect of combat sports (TDD): You make MMA more complicated than it really is.
Being merely a tough guy can take you pretty far in MMA.
MMA fans never evolve lol
I think you just look at the parts that MMA fighters look weak in an area against other fighters that are stronger in those areas and then you think they're just going with one art but that's not the case. It's like watching condit vs Maia and then thinking that condit is a bum on the ground. No, it's just that Maia is a wizard when it comes to BJJCodys style is literally 90% boxing: basic TDD, boxing footwork and counters.
Being "good" / mediocre and bad in many things is not hard.
Most of the time they only learn a single aspect of combat sports (TDD): You make MMA more complicated than it really is.
Being merely a tough guy can take you pretty far in MMA.
MMA fans never evolve lol
His first combat sport was BJJ (he was 21).
JDS KOd Werdum two years later.
do the math babe
Both got KO’d this year.
MMA has never had a guy like him.
Give Struve a jab = dangerous as fuck. give him lebrons athleticism = GOAT.
Lebron moves like a 100 pounds guy + his coordination (one of the most important element of athleticism) is elite level.
Still only 18 and built like a tank.
Lol Tyson threw set up body shots into decapitating uppercuts harder than anything Wilder will throw in his lifewe are lucky ... his child had a medical condition and he needed money fast otherwhise we would have lost one of the hardest hitter in the history of combat sports.
This. Aside from hockey players I think theyd have the best transition to be honest . Some guys play 40 + minutes a game. Running jumping sprinting pushing boxing out. Lots of head movement and hand eye coordination neccessary . Obviously , if they cant take a punch that means fuck allAll I can say is this, imagine Jon Jones had the athleticism to dunk a basketball on an NBA level rim. Such an athlete would be even closer to unstoppable.
Basketball players are actually a good pool for MMA talent. Why? Basketball is an endurance sport. The athletes are literally running suicides for 30 minutes. The duration of a championship fight.