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The idea that this inspired the PRC to create Sanda is nonsense. I also hope you use common sense and think about the absurdity of this theory after reading the details of the Chinese martial arts scene. First, these were random part-time Hong Kong Kungfu practitioners with no status and do not...

Do you think amateur-style boxing with olympic boxing champs might do better than pro boxing champs in bare-knuckle boxing? In bare-knuckle, people often don't punch with full power due to hurting their hands anyways, and the number of hits seems to matter like in amateur boxing since even...

Paid more is relative. I do think UFC fighters are paid just right by objective standards of what athletes are suppose to be getting paid, but thats only because I think athletes in general are getting overpaid in the west and UFC fighters risk the most of any athletes.

The CCP has undermined Chinese traditional culture more than anyone, high-level TCMA is virtually dead in China, and Shuaijiao is declining, so I just see that as an empty slogan and its actions say something entirely different. What the CCP promotes is modern performance Wushu and to a lesser...

You are missing the point completely. Table Tennis wasn't originally Chinese, the fact that its the "national sport" of China just further proves my point that China does not care about its own traditional sports or martial tradition the way Japan, Mongolia, or Thailand do about theirs and...

As someone who lived and trained in China, I will say that this is utter nonsense. Most Chinese people don't have any loyalty to Chinese martial arts as can be seen by the fact that kickboxing is much bigger than Sanda there. The reason Xu Xiaodong got in trouble was not promoting MMA over...

There is a lot of martial arts or combat sports on this planet outside of just boxing and wrestling. Just talking about combat sports alone, there is Sambo, Sanshou, MT, etc., some of which have strong grappling components. I cannot imagine that Ken Shamrock could have say, beaten someone like...

lol at MMA representing the baddest on the planet, especially before 2000

More BS mainland China matches. WC in mainland China is absolute fraud and a legit WC fighter with just a year of training in the west or HK would pummel any "master" there as well. The guy has no proper structure in striking (really this is elementary stuff) or concept of trapping set up after...

There are still people who can apply WC in combat, just very few, but I know them in HK (and in America). You must also realize that WC outside of HK (and even many in HK) is poor in general and medium level at best (if there is a belt system in WC like in BJJ, the best WC fighters in the west...

Put on gloves and its no longer WC. I don't understand why the fact that gloves make over 80 percent of the WC techniques useless is never emphasized enough (and Adam seem to just leave it out). The other aspects are true, but this is just as important, if not more. The majority of the counters...

GSP would have no problem keeping Anderson on the ground for 5 rounds and not get submitted. Sonnen did it and Sonnen admitted GSP's grappling was better than his in sparring even though he was bigger. Sonnen's striking is average at best and barely beat Bisping. GSP already beat Bisping both...

These fights were under unified rules, not Sanda rules. This topic has already being done. http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/is-sanshou-tournaments-rigged.2969771/page-3 Elbows are allowed, they are just padded. Plenty of Sanda throws are banned too (in fact, in terms of overall tools, there are...

If you look at Jone's wrestling against all these fighters, other than one shoot in on Bader, which he got up at the end, all of them are clinch takedowns often mixed with strikes; and against clearly inferior wrestlers (and even then, Jones still struck with them for quite a bit). Jones does...

Jones took down DC through defensive wrestling （in that he caught DC's kicks and tripped him) until the 4th round when DC got tired. When DC decided to take Jones down, he also succeeded. Watch the fight. Jones did not outwrestle DC through pressure wrestling or pure wrestling. Jones certainly...

How do you even compare these kind of circumstantial strikes? How much percentage of power was in that kick and what was the context behind it? Unless you are telling me that Rumble cannot knock out Jones with a clean punch ever or that Rashad cannot knockout Jones with a head kick in any...

When has Jones ever pressure wrestled and adjusted to wrestling against strikers (a past his prime Shogun might be the only time, and even then Jones outstruck him)? He has consistently been clipped by elite strikers like Machida and Gus, who are worse wrestlers than Rumble. Getting clipped once...

People needs to stop using DC as a gauge on how Jones would fare, they are different kinds of fighters. DC is a pressure wrestler, Jones isn't, he is a defensive wrestler, especially in his recent fights. What this means is that Jones will strike with Rumble for a long time, and that will be...

Up until the knockdown, the first Rockhold-Bisping fight was in no way lop-sided. Round 1 was close. Bisping already bloodied Cung Le and knocked down Anderson Silva twice. He wasn't as pillow fisted anymore when he fought and people should know that.

Arguments like these assumes street fighting is similar to combat sport. When you allow vulnerable spots to be hit and when strikes deal more damage and leads to easier cuts without gloves on, its impossible to generalize that point fighting is always less realistic.