First MMA Fight Coming Up

[hateinyaeyes32]

This is where you should have stopped.

At my mma gym you can't even get a fight if you don't at least train some striking/wrestling.

Just because they only wrestle in the fight doesn't mean they haven't learned how to strike. Its just their striking won't be at a high level.

Well it's common sense, striking isnt hard... For most people. At an MMA gym youre really only learning the basics of boxing, if that. If a pure wrestler wanted to get effective boxing training he should go to a real boxing gym, to master the discipline. And if not, then yes, their striking would be at a low level.

And also, Ive got a a few friends that wrestled in high school, and went in to training for MMA and after only 2 months got fights, not nearly enough time to develop a solid striking base, for boxing or MMA, and they both won (one by GNP, the other by guillotine choke... stereotypical MMA wrestlers) so it's not as hard as you claim it is to get fights at all. If a trainer sees something he can work with (an experienced wrestling background, boxing experience, ect.) he'll throw his fighter in there if he's confident about him and his skill set. Some trainers (although not a good thing) are even probably very eager to throw some of these experienced wrestlers in there and test out the waters.

[Righthandbanger]

so it's not as hard as you claim it is to get fights at all.

lol I never claimed it was hard to get fights, even if one place turned you down there will always be someone who will put you in a ring. But some gyms try to ensure quality control by making sure their mma fighters actually can use a mixed martial arts set.

Tbh the odds are better for a pure wrestler to win than a boxer with some slight grappling skill. A good wrestler will have you off your feet eventually unless you KO him

[AKATheMack]

a wrestler wouldn't submit people either. They normally GnP unless they have submission grappling training

OP don't ask a Forum which is mostly boxers about MMA if you want a thread with more than a handful of helpful answers

try they have people who can actually help you and less guys who know nothing about grappling

Thanks man. Im at this forum damn near daily and I honestly dont do the whole internet thing I know BS and checking my email. I willl pose this question where you mentioned it I appreciate it. Thanks everybody else for your input. Obviously it doesnt matter what I do in the next 3 months Im going to be looking to knock him out as Ive been training boxing for about 13yrs and competed for a bout half of it, but Idont want to be a one trick pony. At the level Im fighting at I believe my hand game is good enough to knock most of the local guys out, but if I win Im thinking about possibly choosing this as a career.

[hateinyaeyes32]

lol I never claimed it was hard to get fights, even if one place turned you down there will always be someone who will put you in a ring. But some gyms try to ensure quality control by making sure their mma fighters actually can use a mixed martial arts set.

Tbh the odds are better for a pure wrestler to win than a boxer with some slight grappling skill. A good wrestler will have you off your feet eventually unless you KO him

Yeah you make a good points bro, I was kinda hatin a lil bit thats my bad, with comments like that though I can tell you have some knowledge of MMA! Do you fight? I take it yes?

[Righthandbanger]

not in mma yet but compete in boxing and sub grappling separately and am training for an mma fight in a couple months

[hateinyaeyes32]

not in mma yet but compete in boxing and sub grappling separately and am training for an mma fight in a couple months

Thats tight bro, what type of grappling discipline do you like using the most?

[Righthandbanger]

dude pm me if u wana talk about this stuff so we dont **** up the thread