The grand evolution of MMA - which fighters evolved it the most and how

BJ Penn. Elite BJJ with good wrestling, great boxing, even better TDD and granite chin. He showed that size didn't matter if your skill level was not up to par. At the same time he showed how his weaknesses and mistakes prevented him from staying on top for even longer. He was also one of the first to pull a huge upset over a dominant champ, let alone a weight class higher then him.
 
Conor has everyone wearing suits, talking trash, looking for money fights, looking for two belts, had WME buy the UFC, has CoCo talking like him and Till fighting like him, mastered social media, has half the roster calling out boxers, was the first fighter to promote independently with UFC's consent, so in the current landscape, he definitely deserves a nod.

It's just silly that Sherdog is still acting like Ricardo Lamas in 2015, bitter af, calling him weak nick names like 'McNuggets', saying he isn't a coward duck, downplaying his skills (in and out of the cage), and act like ostriches with their heads in the sand calling him 'irrelevant'.
 
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He showed what can be achieved with pure athleticism: UFC Gold & NCAA.

The doors are still not open for A level athletes, but he showed what a B level athlete can achieve.
 
Conor has everyone wearing suits, talking trash, looking for money fights, looking for two belts, had WME buy the UFC, has CoCo talking like him and Till fighting like him, mastered social media, has half the roster calling out boxers, was the first fighter to promote independently with UFC's consent, so in the current landscape, he definitely deserves a nod.

It's just silly that Sherdog is still acting like Ricardo Lamas in 2015, bitter af, calling him weak nick names like 'McNuggets', saying he isn't a coward duck, downplaying his skills (in and out of the cage), and act like ostriches with their heads in the sand calling him 'irrelevant'.

Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on holding bitterness deep in their bum souls against winners. Is normal. They're still in the denial phase.

Lol, that's honestly embarassing for you that you think that has anything to do with anything regarding MMA.

It's honestly embarrassing for you that you think popularity has nothing to do with evolution.

Every spectator sport evolves as a result of more money and more attention. Stop holding bitterness deep in your bum soul against the ones who changed the game.
 
Romero recently introduce us how great and effective his cross armed guard is. dont know if hes the first one but definitely the most effective one
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The 2 most iconic mma fighters are Royce and GSP. Obviously Royce for BJJ but GSP was the first good at everything guy that’s pretty much the template for every successful modern mma fighter.
 
GSP isn't the one that changed MMA/UFC the most, but he's without a doubt the template for the fighters of today.

He proved that being good/great at everything > being a master at one thing
 
Just imagine Randy Couture if he was starting like 10 years ago as opose to his era, dude wouldn't need to be like 36 to learn some boxing, would even learn to put his weight on punches.
Randy was training boxing most of his life, just not to the extent of wrestling. He hit Vitor with a jab (in their first fight) that rattled the fuck out of Vitor. He was crouched low, waiting to pounce... randy bopped him on the beak and took all the starch out of that man. He was so confident that fight, it was crazy.
 
Randy was training boxing most of his life, just not to the extent of wrestling. He hit Vitor with a jab (in their first fight) that rattled the fuck out of Vitor. He was crouched low, waiting to pounce... randy bopped him on the beak and took all the starch out of that man. He was so confident that fight, it was crazy.
Hey, im not disputing he trained boxing before, maybe even a lot, but that didn't show up, wherever he was training wasn't effective or he wasn't confortable implementing, just look his older fighters, boxing is in another level from early years... And still was a lot of aéreas he could improve. (Dirty boxing is not really part of any boxing training not like he did at least, because can't be done with boxing gloves and is ilegal)
BUT to make things more easy to put on perspective take RAndleman and Coleman and let they start 10 years later how much multi-faceted they would be?
 
BJ Penn. Elite BJJ with good wrestling, great boxing, even better TDD and granite chin. He showed that size didn't matter if your skill level was not up to par. At the same time he showed how his weaknesses and mistakes prevented him from staying on top for even longer. He was also one of the first to pull a huge upset over a dominant champ, let alone a weight class higher then him.

BJ for sure evolved things and was a game changer, important to remember this especially due to flak he is gettimg now.

But this has to symbolize a next gen evolution also when considering Penn was considered the BJJ and submission fighting top level not too long ago.

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The evolution we see is mainly centered around winning under the Unified Rules.

How to win a round and prevent your opponent from scoring enough to win the round.
These kinds of fighters and fights are the worst.
Dom Cruz comes to mind.
 
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