Correct. Its not lucky if you punched mark hunt and knocked him out. thats right. yeah. yep. shut it.It's not luck if your intention is to land
this really is not how it works at all. you are still assigning luck to when a fighter throws a punch to a specific location and the other fighter made the conscious decision to occupy that location. Luck isn't even real
If you need, on average, 100 punches to KO your opponents and on any particular outing it just happens to be the very first punch - yeah - there's some luck involved.
That doesn't negate my point at all. The fact that you can try to do something and fail repeatedly before finding success has nothing to do with intention. Intention is what you're trying to do. It is very different than the physical reality of what happens. This is just one of many things happening in a fight that introduce probability, randomness and what most would call luck.
It is why the most spectacular outcomes (13 second KOs - for example) are almost never repeatable.
That's exactly how it works. That's why MMA rankings aren't just based on who won head to head.
Otherwise the HW top 10 would look something like this:
1. Stipe/Werdum/JDS/Cain (tie)
2. Werdum/Cain/JDS/Stipe (tie)
3. Cain/JDS/Stipe/Werdum (tie)
4. Werdum/Cain/JDS/Stipe (tie)
5. JDS/Stipe/Werdum/Cain (tie)
6. Reem/JDS/Werdum (tie)
7. JDS/Werdum/Bigfoot (tie)
8. Werdum/Bigfoot/Reem (tie)
9. Struve/Stipe (tie)
10. Reem/Struve (tie)
And let's not forget:
Cain > JDS > Cain
with MMA you have the smaller gloves but more importantly, when a punch is landed, with the follow up, there is no chance to recover like a knockdown in boxing
That;s all good and well, but it is resulting in way too many upsets
Fighters are the top are all very skilled nowadays, there are no muppets
Anyone can land that one strike
Imagine if tennis matches were won by one great point won by the lesser player or one touchdown in the NFL or one basket in the NBA
I don't mind upsets in sport, its good for the sport but in MMA there are too many and they just do not feel earned
If someone outside the Top 10 beats Federer or Murray in a grand slam over 5 sets they have definitely earnt it
lmfao, doing mma math. yeah I'm not even gonna adress that, I'd settle with that we just have different opinions.
They're repeatable if the recipient exercises the exact same defense which results in their jaw getting tapped.
What in your opinion constitutes and "UN-LUCKY" knockout.?
This sounds clever, but it's dumb. Almost all strikes are thrown with the intention to land. What people mean when they say it was a lucky shot, is either that the odds of the opponent reacting the way they did which allowed the shot to land were low, that the shot normally wouldn't ko the opponent, or both. A ko can be lucky because even though you intended to throw the punch, it doesn't mean it was likely going to knock him out if everything didn't align perfectly, which isn't fully under your control (luck).It's not luck if your intention is to land
A. Not trueAnyone can land that one strike
This sounds clever, but it's dumb. Almost all strikes are thrown with the intention to land. What people mean when they say it was a lucky shot, is either that the odds of the opponent reacting the way they did which allowed the shot to land were low, that the shot normally wouldn't ko the opponent, or both. A ko can be lucky because even though you intended to throw the punch, it doesn't mean it was likely going to knock him out if everything didn't align perfectly, which isn't fully under your control (luck).
This sounds clever, but it's dumb. Almost all strikes are thrown with the intention to land. What people mean when they say it was a lucky shot, is either that the odds of the opponent reacting the way they did which allowed the shot to land were low, that the shot normally wouldn't ko the opponent, or both. A ko can be lucky because even though you intended to throw the punch, it doesn't mean it was likely going to knock him out if everything didn't align perfectly, which isn't fully under your control (luck).
It's the reality of fighting.
It's also a freak occurrence that it's happened so much recently. Miocic, Bisping, Alvarez, and now Woodley. All 4 could be flukes for all we know. We didn't get to see any of them play out to see how their skills match up.
Why does everyone say that? You're saying something has to be an ACCIDENT to be luckyIt's not luck if your intention is to land
Every punch that lands is lucky by this logic
There's a difference between capitalizing on a mistake, and throwing aMMA is about capitalizing on your opponents mistake.
if your opponent zigs when he should've zagged thats his bad and he deserves to get KO'd.
He made a mistake, you didnt, nothing lucky about it.
Welcome to MMA, newb.with MMA you have the smaller gloves but more importantly, when a punch is landed, with the follow up, there is no chance to recover like a knockdown in boxing
That;s all good and well, but it is resulting in way too many upsets
Fighters are the top are all very skilled nowadays, there are no muppets
Anyone can land that one strike
Imagine if tennis matches were won by one great point won by the lesser player or one touchdown in the NFL or one basket in the NBA
I don't mind upsets in sport, its good for the sport but in MMA there are too many and they just do not feel earned
If someone outside the Top 10 beats Federer or Murray in a grand slam over 5 sets they have definitely earnt it