[jackjitsu]

[jackjitsu]

BWAA HAHAHA HA HAH AH AHAHAH AHAHA HA

Bundy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, just wow... Old Ed had some strong opinions.
He was all over the place. I thought he was totally wrong on some stuff, totally right on other stuff, very interesting.

Interviewer looked like he was thinking "I cant get this guy to shut up now"

[jiujitsunoob]

He's still funny as s***.

I like that he says he's a natural - brown belt after 15 years - it's great when people can poke fun at themselves.

I think a lot of what he's saying about the UFC is correct as you can read in several of my other posts.

[Cgonz1456]

(long time reader, second time poster)

C'mon NO MA'AM gis (crossing fingers)

[jackjitsu]

His point about being able to punch thru walls with big padded gloves (I think he really meant taped hands with light gloves) is very valid.

If you took away all hand protection, it would completely change the game of MMA and make it even more grappling oriented.

With professionally taped hands, this is really the BIGGEST advantage given to the strikers. Even more so than free stand ups.

Fighters would break their hands every single fight if they tried to strike with closed fists. We would see more open hand slapping, pankration style (old school Bas Rutten) and fewer knockouts.

Take away the free standups, and you are getting closer to a real fight, and the dynamics would change quite a lot.

But its like Ed said, UFC is now designed for exciting fights, not real fights.

His clowning of Chuck for piss poor striking was amusing

[bigwar]

Letting strikers wear gloves and grapplers not wear gis is a travesty.

[bma_mat]

[Micker]

Good interview.

I agree that the UFC is starting to lose the thing that started it. It was supposed to be a showcase for different styles to see who was best. After Royce dominated the early ufcs, it slowly started to become a hybrid of styles. It was fun to see a boxer vs a grappler or kung fu guy. Now people have anwsered the question of what style is best I guess. Seems to be the BJJ/Muay Thai combo with some Judo/wrestling is tough to beat. Its like all the guys are training everything now, so its more person vs person instead of martial art dicipline vs other fighting art.

It could start to get pretty stale though as people get so good at defending takedowns, subs etc.. Hell, a lot of times now people can't even do anything when they get a guys back ,due to such good RNC defense. People want to see awesome subs and knockouts. With the money and training the people in the sport are getting now, there are gonna be a lot of boring fights, as both fighters are just too good at everything.

[jackjitsu]

UFC lost the original idea long long ago, its purely a sport now.

RNC's are very hard to do with tapped hands and gloves getting in the way.

[Zending]

[jiujitsunoob]

[bigwar]

[jiujitsunoob]

Not in a MMA match - that's why Royce Gracie finally stopped wearing it because it was being used against him more than he could use it against his opponents.

[Eother]

[jackjitsu]

It depends. If your opponent has no clue how to use the GI against you, it could be an advantage to the grappler, especially with ezekiel choke and other gi chokes.

But if they are familiar with how to attack someone in a GI, its gonna work against you. Sakaruba specifically trained for someone wearing a GI and used it against Royce.

Even Mr No-Gi himself, Beddie Eravo wears GI pants for the extra grip. So ironic that he wears half a gi and bashes the gi so much

[jiujitsunoob]

My school is so NO-GI that I once had a guy tell me I "can't do that" when I grabbed his shirt as an added grip.

I asked a higher level belt and he said if you both agree to use cloths it's fine.

I asked a different higher belt and he said "well it's going to happen if I'm in a real fight so it's all good" which leads me to believe that cloths are not used against anyone much.

However when I rolled against my instructor (who wears a gi) he didn't comment on it.

I really need to ask the head instructor for the correct answer for my school

I typically roll in a tee shirt and shorts as do 80% of the guys. Some of the guys wear GI pants, and 1 guy wears sweat pants and 2 shirts, 1 a T, the other a baggy long sleeve.

A lot of guys wear knee pads and/or wrestling shoes and/or braces of various types but so far except the occasional day I need my ankle brace I don't wear any of that stuff.

[jackjitsu]

[jiujitsunoob]

Yea my school does not have any gi classes, it's all no gi.

[Micker]

The thing with gi pants is that most real world situations, they guy is going to be wearing pants/jeans. You won't find anyone wearing a gi-top unless you jump some kung-fu guy coming out of class . Shirts rip too easy and coats can be weird to grab.

As far as gloves go, they can hurt or help the grappler. I would rather someone have gloves on when I am applying an arm bar. It would be easier to get/keep his arm. RNC are much tougher or course, trying to get those big gloves in between his hands protecting his neck. It might be better for triangles as it would be harder to pull your arm out with gloves on. I also would rather get hit with gloves then knuckles. It spreads the impact out over a wider area and adds a minor cushion.

Ed O'neil says that boxers are way better at standup then any MMA guy. He makes it sound like MMA guys have no clue how to punch. I know a lot of the guys are Muay Thai specialists and they seem to punch and kick pretty dam good. He forgets that these guys just can't go in and punch away. They have to defend kicks and takedowns also. Its easy when you just have to concntrate on punches. You can't commit to some things like in boxing or you will get taken down or leg kicked like crazy. If Chuck Liddel could just concentrate on punches, he might look much better technically. Lets see how a Floyd Maywether reacts to a roundhouse kick to the legs when he is flotating that jab out there, or what happens when he goes to dodge a punch and gets taken down. In MMA you have to be good at the entire gamut of fighting.

[bma_mat]

Chuck Liddel in my oppinion is not that good of a puncher at all. He was fed pure cans. For a better word than cans, he was fed pure grappelers, which were perfect for his style.