*You don't need to use or know how to throw a kick in order to be the best fighter*

Either alot of people or trolling or this site is made up of nearly 99% of people who either openly or secretly have never watched MMA.

There is not enough people in here attempting to destroy TS's ability to enjoy the forums.

In all seriousness though, kicks are infinitely useful and important just like any other facet of MMA.

Can do everything but defend a takedown? You suck even at low levels.

Can do everything but secure a takedown? Same deal.

Can do everything but get a sub or defend a sub? Same deal.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Lowest level MMA fights tend to suck, but even then, if you are unable or inefficient in any one aspect of MMA, you should train more if you want to compete &/or claim you're well rounded.

In example, even if you won, the fight sucked because you can't throw straights or jabs to save your life and even then your round punches were all arms and nothing else whenever they didn't fully degrade into lol-inducing haymakers and the world's sorriest uppercuts and shovel punches thrown from the waist and below the waist. Because of this, you got rocked multiple times by someone shaped like the Michelin Man.
 
Go a single round against someone who has decent leg kicks then tell me they aren't needed. CroCop has had one of the most successful careers in mma history and he primarily uses kicks, hell he has won multiple fights with nothing but kicks.

That pointy cone-shaped hat you wear seems to be cutting off the blood flow to your pea sized brain.
In all fairness, Crocop was most dangerous when he used is fists to set up his kicks. In the UFC he tried to kick without setups, but if you look at his Pride fights, he used his hands a lot. Particularly his left. Bodyshots too.
 
Kicks are expendable. Wrestling, boxing, good BJJ defense and some BJJ techniques as RNC are what you need to be as good as you could be as an MMA fighter.

¿Proof?

KHABIB NURMAGOMEDOV and DANIEL CORMIER. Among the all-time goats.

BJ Penn made it pretty far without throwing many kicks. Rampage became UFC champ with no kicks. I mean, it's a good idea to be proficient with kicks, but it is definitely possible to be the best without kicks.
 
It's certainly possible you don't NEED to know how or use.

In some alternate universe a pure grappler could be the best without having to throw a punch or kick whatever.

Extremely unlikely to be the case though.

An alternate universe where a guy named Khabib and a guy named Daniel are among the top p4p fighters to ever step into the octagon.
 
Forrest Griffen beat Rampage mainly due to the difference in kicking skill.

Outside of that, Rampage was better at all other aspects of MMA and yet he lost ... to kicks.

The biggest difference between Jones and Cormier is the kicking game from a distance makes it that DC has to eat multiple body shots before he can get into boxing/clinching range where he stalemates Jones at best.
 
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