"From what I've heard, there's some sort of "mixed martial arts" that is more boxing with some other things thrown in to make use of the feet, but the majority of the battle is done with fists. Is this correct? Is this the stuff I see on commercials where they fight in a cage? I don't include these guys in my argument, because it looks like they are mostly boxers anyway, and they look like serious contenders. Educate me on this, will you?"
Actually, from the mixed arts bouts I've watched on t.v., most of them are won with grappling. A pure boxer had better get that knock-out punch in before the grappler can step inside of his punch, grab his shoulders, throw him over the grappler's hip to the ground, wrap up the boxers arms with his legs and then pounding the head until the guy gives up. If one has not been trained in 'ground' defense and escape, I would not want to be at the mercy of a well trained grappler. The boxing and kicking is usually used to get an opening to grapple. Of course a well timed knock-out knee to the head of somebody rushing in to grab you is a pretty effective defense. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247265 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
