That's funny sparky because the ideal method is if you're solely a striker you depend on your wrestling to keep you up on the feet. If you don't have wrestling you're going to not only depend on your striking but your bjj when you can't get off your back.
Nothing is wrong with solely being a striker but you better learn wrestling to stay on your feet.
Where did you get your opinion from honestly?
I understand where you're coming from but so many striker oriented fighters make the mistake of working hard on their wrestling in striking but eventually they will go to the ground.
You look at Josh Koscheck vs Paul Daley & Paul Daley couldn't stay on his feet for very long & had nothing to fall back on.
When you see a talented striker, the first thing you think about is taking him to the ground. When you see a talented submission artist, the first thing you think is keeping him on his feet. The truth of the matter is that wrestling gives you the opprotunity to take the fight to the ground but not be a real threat on the ground or standing up but they are good in the middle area of MMA.
Nothing leaves me more hopeless then watching Rampage Jackson on his back against Forrest Griffen & Rampage not being any threat from his back. Same with Koscheck vs Daley, Fedor vs Schilt.
It comes down to the fact that as a wrestler, you have to be in the dominant position to do damage, usually not fight ending damage, just damage in general as appose to learning BJJ, you can be on top or bottom & still do damage.
A huge part of the game is mental in my opinion. True takedown defense is not really having to rely on it to win the fight. The fact that your stand up game is so scary that your opponent doesn't want to stand with you but he knows that he can't lay in pray because you'll put him to sleep or literally rip his muscles, bones, jones or tendons from his body. Those are the fighters that you really have to sit there in front of the TV & attempt to pick apart & hope that your strategy plays out the way that you want it to.
There are some fighters that make their striking & wrestling work & there is no better example then Jon "Bones" Jones. I've never seen a fighter like him & I learn so much just from watching his fights but I would still rather be a threat on the ground from dominant & non dominant positions so I would choose BJJ.
Just my 2 cents.
