Originally Posted by
Lee Chiang Po
I think most people are comparing to UHF fighting in the ring as to who has ground game. It is a sport and the list of rules is endless. No style of fighting has groung game. None of them except BJJ. That seems to be the only thing anyone trains aside from fist battering. If they can't beat you down they shoot for a take down and either a choke or an arm bar. What the hell is that about? The rules only allow certain arm bars and no small joints, which seems to mean the wrists too. It don't matter how good one might be with any particular MA system, if he can't use it, it is no good. So why is everyone picking on WC? I have seen black belt Karate, kung fu, and several other supposedly powerful systems represented by some of these fighters and they still get their brains hammered or arms barred. Maybe even choked half to death. They are all allowed to use the same techniques and no more. So everyone in the ring is fighting using the very same techniques and nothing that would represent their own chosen fighting style. Now and then one of them will surprise everyone by using a karate kick or kung fu move while stand up fighting, but it is not often seen. But by and far it all amounts to who is the strongest and most agressive fighter. Skill is not really all that important as long as you can exibit greater strength. And then of course there is pure luck. Like the first punch out ends with a knock out, Or the first kick landed ends in a broken leg for the kicker. A kick where the shin bone is the contact point can injure the kicker more than the kickee, and this makes it absolutely idiotic. It is like shooting ones self in an effort to kill an opponent.