in his last two fights, he seriously brought it...came out with great technique and aggression, doing more damage to his opponents than he received...yet hes 0-2, mostly because his opponents used tactics to AVOID the fight, which ultimately scored the points to give them wins...
it makes NO sense that fighters are actually incentivized to nullify action and to avoid fighting, which is exactly the point nick was making....
that being said, people complain about the way guys like gsp fight...i do too...but in reality you cant blame him because he is just using an extremely smart gameplan to win in accordance with the current scoring criteria...this wont change, and it will actually become more prevelant as fighters learn to gameplan better, unless and until the scoring criteria is changed...
The main problem is with the way it's round based rather than total fight based.
no...regardless of whether its round based or based on the total fight..if u tell a guy like gsp, hey you hold this guy down and you win...he will do it all day and night...
If u want to use the wrestling to put u in a position where u are finishing your opponent great. But wrestling itself should not be the end all be all of the fight.
All the little fags that like to cry about wrestlers should have wrestled from 5-6 on.
In a street fight I have never seen a striker take out a wrestler, most go out from the slam and then the knees to the head END it.
LOL @ you but hurts.
I didn't start wrestling at 5, but did at 12. And wrestling isn't a fight. U think on the street holding someone down will score points for the win?
Go get a buddy and wrestle on some concrete and tell me how wrestling isnt a fight.
even BJJ on concrete hurts pretty bad (i know from experience)
I have never seen a fight where one dude holds the other down. Whether its on concrete on the beach on grass on molten lava. Y? Because holding someone down isn't a fight.
