What you’re missing is that it doesn’t take a decade of boxing to be able to throw a jab. Or a hook. Or to show footwork around a bag. To sit on your punches. To distribute your weight appropriately. To show balance. To pivot. It really doesn’t.
what does take a long time is to be able to maintain all of those fundamentals against another person trained to apply those same fundamentals against you.
What takes a long time is knowing how to adapt your techniques depending on the skillsets of your opponent.
what takes a long time is learning how defense and offense work together. How spacing works. How to set up attacks.
you see none of that. You see a jab. And a cross. And dancing around a heavy bag.
Nobody suggested it took a decade. But you can certainly tell when someone has put in the time.
I'm not just seeing a jab, cross and dancing around the heavy bag. I've made that clear. As I said, we expose ourselves with every movement demonstrated. For better or worse. There are also levels to everything. You speak as if every technique and attribute shown are created equal.
The point isn't that he is some truly elite boxer. he isn't. However, he certainly has some skill and respect for boxing in a very purist way, which is uncommon among those with a predominantly karate / traditional base.
Ultimately his traditional background is still his defining attribute.
How that translates to a real fight CAN be another animal entirely and I've made that clear so I don't see why you're still arguing, as if I've suggested otherwise.
I would add that the kyokushin point fighting style generally excellent at moving in and out, spacing / distance management in a very chess like manner, balance, center of gravity tends to be very good, excellent posterior chain and trunk movement, footwork, ability to fight off the back foot which lends itself well to both countering ability and avoiding damage. Utilizing kicks, like the teep / side kick etc as a means of measuring and controlling the range and stifling their opponents offense.
based on what we've seen overall, presumably MJW has many of those same elements to his style.
Typically when the effectiveness of a traditional martial artist is questioned, it's because they've learned many techniques that simply aren't tangible in the real world. There is a very real track record for the style and skill set he brings to the table having success, even bringing MMA fighters to the highest level of a sport.
That doesn't necessarily mean he's guaranteed to have that warrior energy in him, How well he's capable of taking a punch, reacting to being hit, etc.
However long ago it was, he has competed and presumably a lot more than just that singular video. He knows what that feels like. he has the ability to spar with elite MMA fighters any time he wants and likely does so based on what we've seen and heard.
So, to suggest this is a person who would be completely foreign to what it feels like seems a bit illogical.
On paper, the tools are there. elements of his style have a proven track record for tangible success. The only real question is his toughness. Does he have the same sort of dog in him that Perry does. We really don't know.
Someone like that utterly embarrassing a fighter like Perry wouldn't be crazy by any stretch of the imagination however.
