Are black belts in martial arts any good in the UFC?

Birmingham · Mar 20, 2019

RockyMarciano said: ↑

I see you focused on the part of my comment that was a joke at Calzaghe's expense and ignored the valid point that I made about balance and distance. I didn't claim Karate to be the most bad ass martial art around...but you're out of your mind if you think it's completely useless. You may very well have had terrible instructors...but there are good ones out there. There are rotten boxing coaches out there too. As for no full contact fights..I had full contact point matches as a kid both in my dojo and in multiple tournaments. Different places have different styles of programs. If you were to sign up for Chuck Norris' karate program for example...you are required to participate in many BJJ techniques as well as a variety of other techniques to progress through the ranks.
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Ok, this is my opinion on it..Shotokan Karate as a self defence is useless, anything non full contact does not prepare you for the street, Boxing does in absolute spades. What style were you ?? Please don't talk bout JC like that , he was a banger before his hands went, ask Eubank !

mark ant · Mar 20, 2019

RockyMarciano said: ↑

I started Karate at 6 and stayed with it until I got into boxing at around 12 or so. I found it to be very useful for a few things....mainly balance and judging/closing of distance....those are very underrated. Then you add in a slap here and there...Joe Calzaghe made a career out of those exact attributes.
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Yes Joe exploited Eubank`s dreadful balance when they fought but certainly didn`t slap him with a lovely knockdown.

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