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Cardio and TDD will win you a lot of fights.
I just go with chin durability, heart, and cardio.
Cardio and TDD will win you a lot of fights.
Aldo,Benson,GSP,Anderson,Jones all well rounded.JDS has awesome boxing with great TDD and BJJ black belt.he's pretty well rounded too.
Top contender Overeem- K1 champ who won ADCC trials euro.He's pretty well rounded too.
Barao is wellrouned
and FlyW champ i dont give a shit.
You have to be at least really good in one dimension and proficient in another. I cant think of any examples where this isnt true at the top outside of.hw
I keep seeing Junior indicted for being "one-dimensional," which to me is indicative of a poor understanding of MMA.
You don't need to be good everywhere to succeed in the sport. You only need two things: one aspect of MMA in which you are superior to your opponent and the ability to make that aspect the sole focus of the fight.
This can be broad; you can be an all-around better striker, so you need TDD. Alternatively, you can be better with kicks but not punches, in which case you need TDD, the ability to stay at range, and the timing to avoid retaliatory lunches.
If you have those things, literally nothing else matters. Your BJJ is meaningless, your clinch game is meaningless.
To make it clearer, look at someone like Diaz, who is devastating standing and on the mat, but has no positional control. You only need to be better than him on either the feet or the mat, not both.
Now look at someone like Koscheck or Cormier; thanks to their wrestling, you have to be better than them both standing and on the mat. You have to prepare for both aspects while they only need to prepare for one.
Junior doesn't need to be a better grappler or kicker than you; he makes you box with him. The ability to do so is the only thing he needs besides his hands.
Because they lack the ability to MAKE people box with them. Junior stymies kicks with counters and clinching with footwork. You wind up forced to trade hands with him.
Catching kicks can also work towards that end.
so will a solid chin and power fists
No striking/ ground game would help you muchCardio and TDD will win you a lot of fights.