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John Danaher made the point that a fair inferior athlete and fighter can still win via KO with the so called punchers chance in a striking bout. Grappling offers no such opportunity. Everything is fully earned.
I will argue that it's quite the opposite. It's in striking where there truly is no randomness. You can't KO Lennox Lewis, Adesanya or Mayweather via punchers chance.. Line amateurs up.. It's not going to happen..
If you take a high level striker and put him up against any tough guy who never trained striking, not only can't he hurt the striker, he can't touch him.
I know from doing both arts that grappling is far more innate than striking. You will always suck doing sparring for the first time against a black belt in striking, but grappling, and wrestling in particular you can get by if you are talented and big enough. Any outcome: submission, slam, stalling is possible.
So danaher has deduced based on one punch KOs that striking is more random than grappling, when it's due to either one of two things. A) the better striker falls asleep on the switch. Overconfident, arrogant, or tired. He simply doesn't care.
Or
B) neither striker know what they are doing. And so the entire excercise is random.
This entire concept of punchers chance does not mean that you can RANDOMLY KO a World champion. An elite striker understands range. You won't even be in position to hit him, unless he lets you.
Same between intermediate and brawler.
I will argue that it's quite the opposite. It's in striking where there truly is no randomness. You can't KO Lennox Lewis, Adesanya or Mayweather via punchers chance.. Line amateurs up.. It's not going to happen..
If you take a high level striker and put him up against any tough guy who never trained striking, not only can't he hurt the striker, he can't touch him.
I know from doing both arts that grappling is far more innate than striking. You will always suck doing sparring for the first time against a black belt in striking, but grappling, and wrestling in particular you can get by if you are talented and big enough. Any outcome: submission, slam, stalling is possible.
So danaher has deduced based on one punch KOs that striking is more random than grappling, when it's due to either one of two things. A) the better striker falls asleep on the switch. Overconfident, arrogant, or tired. He simply doesn't care.
Or
B) neither striker know what they are doing. And so the entire excercise is random.
This entire concept of punchers chance does not mean that you can RANDOMLY KO a World champion. An elite striker understands range. You won't even be in position to hit him, unless he lets you.
Same between intermediate and brawler.
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