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I'm a karate practitioner and I Picked A Fight with a MMA fighter on June 17th. .
How is your ground game?
. Problem today is just no good existing gene pool today for the Strikers.
I disagree.......
The problem is.....that....in order to be successful today in MMA as a striker - you have to be VERY good at avoiding a takedown. Not many are. There are plenty of really good strikers with KO power, but, in a long fight - its almost always going to end up on the ground.
Although Lee was better than most people know in submissions.....he trained them in a day where almost no one knew what to look for or how to avoid them.
Kind of like Royce Gracie in the early days. BJJ and submissions are very, very easy to execute against other fighting styles......but today almost everyone who trains in some sort of MMA learns BJJ. Executing correct submissions is much, much harder than it was. Every manipulation, jointplacement, leverage opportunity, and interupted blood vessel has to be perfect, since there is a counter for everything.
If I catch someone in an arm bar or Kimora and they are not trained....its "game over". If they have trained for a while - its the first move that is only used to set up a submission 6, or 7 counters later.
Bruce lee, Royce Gracie, and all the earlier guys didnt have to compete in that world.
Evey watching the earliest UFC again years later, its amazing how fast and how far the sport has evolved - some of those guys wouldnt survive today - and they were the best of the best back then. In fact, the sport evolved right past almost every one of them that tried to stay in the game.