>>685267>Wrong. No striker lands every strikeYeah and not every grab attempt doesn’t result in the defender immediately dodging out of it—especially when you have morons telegraphing clinch attempts by literally pouncing on their opponent.
<Wrestling's efficiency and effectiveness come from control. No shit, you think I and no one else knows this? The problem I have with wrestling specifically is if control is what’s wanted because you can’t have that in multi fights or in fights where knockouts and lethality is needed more than submission—which is most of them—and grappling to lead into a strike is objectively slower than just striking someone head on.
<Khabib can miss a shot, but chain wrestling and control allow him to still capitalize from missed shots in a way a missed strike could never achieveYeah assuming he doesn’t get his head struck trying to like the many times that CTE farmer and other grappling specialists have had to deal with in the mma scene for years.
>Wrong, dumbass. Wrestling is seen everywhere in actual fighting, and hair control is a banned grappling technique due to its effectiveness and lack of counterplay.I think you’re confusing hair pulling, “the helicopter” (it’s just flailing and dropping guard simultaneously due to lack of training) and attempting to “catch and opponents fist” to defend oneself instead of blocking and stepping away with professional wrestling. Don’t get me wrong, I know what a trained grappler looks liked but don’t confuse the hordes of fat untrained and inexperienced tough guys flailing their arms at each other and grabbing onto whatever they find out of panic with someone with even half a clue over what to do once they end up on the ground. The average person has a better chance of breaking their own leg attempting a takedown given how few people understand what leverage and using core strength to force someone off balance means in grappling.
>Wrong. You cherry-pick a fight, which still proves your dumbass wrong. Jon Jones won that fight by outgrappling Chael, a D1 wrestler. Chael's strikes didn't do jack shit. This match demonstrates the dominance of wrestling.I really didn’t. Jones is an awful fighter in gen
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