Quote Originally Posted by Punisher136
Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo
Quote Originally Posted by Punisher136
I've said it once and i'll say it again. It takes more skill to win a single disciplined match than a mixed one.
This makes no sense whatsover. When two people are competing against each other one on one the difficulty in winning will be on average exactly the same across all sports.

How can it possibly be easier to win in one head to head than another?

It's a mathematical impossibility.

If it was easier for one man to win, then logically it must follow that it's harder for the other man to win.

You're basically trying to make a perfectly balanced see saw rise upwards at one end by placing the identical amount of extra weight on both sides.
I've explained this over and over but i guess i'll do it one more time for you bilbo.

You can't compare skill in mma like you do single disciplined matches. In a single disciplined match, everybody has learned the same style. Saying an mma fighter is more skilled than a single disciplined fighter under mma rules is a joke because the only way they would win is by using an element of fighting a purist isn't familiar with. Mixed martial arts is a watered down street fight and you can't prove it other wise. If you like it, good for you but you can't say they are equally as skilled in their fights because if you put most of them against masters of the styles they train in they'll lose. I'm aware that some are champs in various styles, but most are not.
The only reason you say that MMA fighters are unskilled is out of ignorance. Guys like Sakuraba, the Gracies, Randy Cutoure, Wanderlai Silva etc are all tremendously skilful athletes. There is a ton of skill that goes into being a top mixed martial artist. I can promise you that it takes every bit as much skill to hone a high leg kick like Mirko Cro Cop as it does to throw a thunderous left hook like Jeff Lacy.

The ground game when you get to understand it is an art form all of it's own with an intriuging chess match with both fighters trying to manouver their opponent into making a mistake that they can capitalise on.

It makes me chuckle that people can actually think that there is more science and more to learn when both fighters can only punch to the head or body than there is when fighters can punch, kick, wrestle, throw, elbow etc.

MMA is a tremendously exciting sport and the skill level of its practitioners is growing all the time.