The Man Monster
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miniaq said:"Black belt magazine there is an article about how strikers abondon thy're skill once they are placed in a street/cage fight." I don t think it s so much that they abondon standing up during a fight, it's more that the oponent senses his weakness then clinches to save his head. Since the popularity of BJJ has grown specially in the past few years, I think that the idea of a fight ENDING on the ground has gotten a little too much attention. The majority of top notch fighters in both Pride and UFC are winning by knocking out their oponents or on points mostly gained thru stand up fighting, best case examples are Silva, Crocop and Liddle.
As for your average street fight, lets be honest would you ever consider putting a guy in your guard during a confrontation! most likely you ll take him down get a side mount and start using your boxing techniques and pound on his head or add a few knees to the body for good measure.
Well first of all you can only do what you can catch them with, so if I had to pull guard then yes I would. Besides having someone in my guard isn't a problem, I mean at high levels of MMA competition it would be because they know how to fight out of it, but in a street fight I have seen it with my own eyes were guys get caught in a guard and pounded out.
But I understand what you mean, so thanks for your help!