I've been noticing alot of people giving Fedor a hard time because of his wide looping punching style saying he has bad standup technique.
I beg to differ. A straight punch is not always better than a wide looping punch, especially not in MMA with the small gloves.
For examples watch Fedor vs. Tim Silvia or Shogun vs. Machida 2. In both instances the fight was won because Fedor and Shogun were able to slip the straight punch and drop their opponents with a looping punch counter.
Most of these poeple are just saying this because they have trained in or watchied mostly boxing their whole lives in which you are taught to punch strait and throw short and tight combinations.
In boxing this is recommended because looping punches don't do much damage with those big gloves on.
In mma they are much more effective and also help to protect your chin and also help to wrap up your opponent and initiate a takedown from the clinch.
Fedor's punching style is something from combat sambo that the adapted for MMA.
People need to realize that striking in boxing is considerably different than strking mma and it is not the be all end all of striking techniques.
Discuss...
I beg to differ. A straight punch is not always better than a wide looping punch, especially not in MMA with the small gloves.
For examples watch Fedor vs. Tim Silvia or Shogun vs. Machida 2. In both instances the fight was won because Fedor and Shogun were able to slip the straight punch and drop their opponents with a looping punch counter.
Most of these poeple are just saying this because they have trained in or watchied mostly boxing their whole lives in which you are taught to punch strait and throw short and tight combinations.
In boxing this is recommended because looping punches don't do much damage with those big gloves on.
In mma they are much more effective and also help to protect your chin and also help to wrap up your opponent and initiate a takedown from the clinch.
Fedor's punching style is something from combat sambo that the adapted for MMA.
People need to realize that striking in boxing is considerably different than strking mma and it is not the be all end all of striking techniques.
Discuss...