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Whats with everyone quick to trash the sport as soon as on kickboxer loses? Evey one in MMA trains kickboxing. Its like if a pro boxer got into MMA and got KO'd, will we trash boxing? There are many many styles within the sport. You can have a successful boxer who would do horrible in MMA because his style of boxing is not good for it. Same applies for kickboxing. We are talking about explosive athletes here. Anyone can KO anyone at anytime. All 3 sports are their own game.
Kickboxing has many styles. People need to stop lumping them all under one style (K1 styllez bruh). You got your dutch style which is lots of combos, powerful strikes, but with not much footwork. This is what Saki is. Saki has a style where distance and timing is non existent and shots are being winged with explosion. He would overwhelm guys in kickboxing because the KO rate with bigger gloves is obviously lower. He tried that here but the counter that he would normally take pretty easily, put him down.
Israel has a good style for MMA. More timing based. More footwork. More head movement. Very creative. However he couldn't beat the Glory champ at the time. He got KO'd. In a ring, getting cut off and being trapped in corners will limit the creativity of a fighter and would force them to fight balls the wall like the dutch do. In the octagon, Israel has all the space in the world to show his full arsenal.
Dutch kickboxing style is not a good style of kickboxing for MMA at the highest level. Standing in the pocket ripping combos is just begging to catch one on the chin by even a less skilled fighter. By doing so, you are leaving it to chance. The best style of striking are guys who can enter flow state and who are smooth and creative. Like Israel, like Conor McGregor, like Anderson Silva, like Jon jones and ect...
You got to pick your shots. You got to time them. You got to lul them to sleep. Then strike like lightning. Very much like the teachings of Miyomoto Musashi, and Bruce Lee. You have to look at it like a life and death situation and that giving your opponent a chance to hit you is not an option. This is how real fighting by the best looks like. Many have said in the past that Saki would kill Anderson Silva in his prime if Silva stood with him in the cage. No. Saki would have not land much other than leg kicks. But eventually Silva would land the kill shot.
You cant teach an old dog new tricks. This is sadly where Saki is at. Israel however is a real student of the game and is using his skills very effectively in MMA.
Kickboxing has many styles. People need to stop lumping them all under one style (K1 styllez bruh). You got your dutch style which is lots of combos, powerful strikes, but with not much footwork. This is what Saki is. Saki has a style where distance and timing is non existent and shots are being winged with explosion. He would overwhelm guys in kickboxing because the KO rate with bigger gloves is obviously lower. He tried that here but the counter that he would normally take pretty easily, put him down.
Israel has a good style for MMA. More timing based. More footwork. More head movement. Very creative. However he couldn't beat the Glory champ at the time. He got KO'd. In a ring, getting cut off and being trapped in corners will limit the creativity of a fighter and would force them to fight balls the wall like the dutch do. In the octagon, Israel has all the space in the world to show his full arsenal.
Dutch kickboxing style is not a good style of kickboxing for MMA at the highest level. Standing in the pocket ripping combos is just begging to catch one on the chin by even a less skilled fighter. By doing so, you are leaving it to chance. The best style of striking are guys who can enter flow state and who are smooth and creative. Like Israel, like Conor McGregor, like Anderson Silva, like Jon jones and ect...
You got to pick your shots. You got to time them. You got to lul them to sleep. Then strike like lightning. Very much like the teachings of Miyomoto Musashi, and Bruce Lee. You have to look at it like a life and death situation and that giving your opponent a chance to hit you is not an option. This is how real fighting by the best looks like. Many have said in the past that Saki would kill Anderson Silva in his prime if Silva stood with him in the cage. No. Saki would have not land much other than leg kicks. But eventually Silva would land the kill shot.
You cant teach an old dog new tricks. This is sadly where Saki is at. Israel however is a real student of the game and is using his skills very effectively in MMA.
