Swoleburn said:
You have so many flaws in your argument I really do not know where to start. Here it goes anyways.
Ok, Now you are giving me examples of a groundfighter vs. a groundfighter!!! I have seen all of the Sak vs. Gracie fights and they are all very skilled in grappling. Now were these fights Won by strikes???????? No they were not!!!!! The one against Royce was because he threw in the towel because his foot was broken. In case you forgot the fight between Royce and Sakuraba lasted almost an hour. So obviously there were not too many devistating strikes. He beat Renzo Gracie by a Kimura (Armlock) and he beat Royler Gracie by another armlock that the ref stopped.So how do two armlocks and a towel thrown in because of a broken foot constitute as being beaten by strikes? Please answer this for me.
If you go back and watch the fight you'll see the dude did strike a lot, no they weren't won by strikes there was a lot of grapping involved and he's a good ground figher but he striked a lot, look back at the fight, everytime the Gracies tried to tackle him he'd get out of the mount or open guard and make his way to the top and strike:
Here are some more pictures of him in other fights, the dude strikes a LOT even though he's a submission wrestler, he gets the edge over his opponents and always strikes when theyr trying to get him in submission:
Even when he's got him down hes still striking:
As far as the Kimo fight goes, there were no weight classes then and Royce was fighting a guy that outweighed him by over 50lbs. This is a prime example and yet again proving my point. Kimo was a much, much larger and stronger man than Royce. Royce was 180lbs wet and wearing boots and Kimo was near 250lbs ripped and roided. In case you forgot Royce Gracie STILL WON!!!!!!!!!!!! Kimo was also skilled in wrestling. So you are proving my point once again. I should just let you argue my point for me.
I don't think you've read any of what I said, my point is if your strong enough you can get out of a vulnerable position, when Royce had Kimo in open guard he was attempting an arm lock and before he got it locked in Kimo used his strenght to toss Royce onto his back, Kimo was 260lbs not 250 as well, he isn't very skilled in wrestling but he has decent grappling skills but the point is he used his STRENGHT to get out of submissions, here Royce tried to mount him but he threw Royce on his back:
Royce was done for at the end of that match but when they came off the ringside they hit the floor and Royce LUCKILY ended up in a position where he could set up the arm bar, a couple more minutes and Royce woulda needed a stretcher he had to be carried out of the ring even at that point.
The original argument, in case you forgot, was over Mike Tyson, not over other Groundfighters, You are making me laugh man. I have trained with Rickson Gracie in Oakland, Royce Gracie in Torrance, the Machado brothers, Pat Smith, Deigo Sanchez (he just won the UFC contract), among others. And to tell you the truth I dont care if you believe me or not because the fact that I can tell you dont know shit. You are proabably a boxer and think that it is the best thing in the world but have yet to fight someone that knew how to fight on the ground. Tell me one pure boxer that has ever had success in the UFC???????
I think you have a problem against boxers but you obviously don't get it, I am saying an effective striker CAN get out of a ground attack, the original argument was over Mike Tyson and I said if somebody takes him down it will take a while to set him up and in that while he can capitalize on his power, Kimo tossed Royce around everytime he tried to get an arm lock on him and Sak pounded the Royce brothers everytime they tried to get him in a submissive move, granted these guys are well versed in ground fighting because of theyr backgrounds the fact remains that stiriking is an effective tool in any sport and a good striker can do a lot of damage.
By the way I've met Sak, he kicked the shit out of the Gracies and he'd eat Pat and Diego, I can't beleive your bragging about those bitches, they are tough dudes but theyr not real fighters like Sak, he whooped all of your precious Gracie brothers man and how long would Pat last against Sak?
I can't beleive your bragging about chilling with them mofos, lol you look like a dumbass telling somebody whoose chilled with Sak that you met THE GRACIES.. you met the Gracies, I met the guy who whooped their ass, chew on that son.
On to your other weak ass arguments: I never said it took 1 second to choke someone out or to break an arm. But in the picture you provided his arm is fully extended and could break easily if the guy lifted his hips. In the caption under the picture you said his other arm was free to punch. R U a fucking RETARD???? There is no way in that picture he will get off a punch before his arm is snapped. Plus from that position how would you use your other arm to punch his face that is 5 feet away? You my friend are an idiot!!!!!!!
I didn't mean when your in an actual arm bar you can punch out of it I mean while somebody is trying to set your one arm up you can use your other arm to get out of it, I can't remember who it was that Royce once tried to get in an armbar but that dude didn't let Royce get the arm bar because he was pounding his head while Royce was trying to get it locked in, Royce had to let go, now if Tyson punchs your head don't you think thats even a little significant??
So the fact of the matter is that you have to be well rounded. I said one demensional fighters have very little chance in a MMA competition. One Dimensional stand up fighters have even less of a chance. Royce Gracie, Renzo and Royler are one demensional fighters. They have no striking skills whatsoever, and they lost to a fighter (Sakuraba) That was well rounded in strikes and grappling. The only reason why Sakuraba was able to land any type of strike was because he knew how to defend from takedowns and was extremely skilled in grappling. Tyson has no grappling skills and he would be exposed in the ring
LOL its funny how you keep changing your argument, man listen a well rounded fighter is important but your talking shit about how striking is ineffective when it comes to ground fighting and thats what I've just dissapproved, I took an example of how a fighter used striking skills and how another fighter used strenght to get out of submissions, you said to me you couldn't muscle or punch out of a vulnerable position now your recanting your argument.
So Chew on that Biatch, And you think you have more experience then me in fighting????....LOL....Fighting a little girl or fighting 5th graders doesnt count.......If we were in the same room you would not talk shit, you would sit in the corner like the pussy you are, I can garauntee it.
Man your some ugly ass white boi come on thats the biggest diss you could ever give me, scared of you?
WTF you look like your a McDonalds junkie with that big ass stomach of yours, you'd walk half way across the ring and pass out from being tired, your some big fat chump, we've all seen you, you just talk shit and now I can prove it, your guarunteeing something you have no way of actually guaruneeting, how can you give that guaruntee you don't know me I might bitch slap you, man your an entertaining young guy but your retarded as fuck, my argument is EXACTLY the same but yours is changing and your telling me about how inexperienced I am and how experienced you are and you've sparred with Bruce Lee and had his wife in bed and Brandon Lee was really your son, kinda hard to beleive anything you say when your stories change momentarily.