MMA and Jiu-Jitsu
What happens to grappling when strikes, gloves and a cage are added.
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What the early UFC tournaments actually demonstrated
The events are cited as proof that grappling beats striking. Read the format the way you would read any other experiment and the claim they support is much narrower, and more durable, than the one they are used for.
7 min · 4 sources - Published
Why sport jiu-jitsu does not transfer directly to MMA
Not a question about who would beat whom. A question about which constraints changed between the two activities, and what each change does to the value of a position.
9 min · 8 sources
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Influential Figures
- Rickson Gracie
He took the family's claim to Japan in the mid-1990s and won there, and he is also the clearest case in the sport of a reputation that grew faster than the record behind it.
- Royce Gracie
On one night in Denver in 1993 he won three fights in a total of under five minutes of mat time, in front of a paying audience and a camera, and the argument about whether grappling mattered was over.