Can I Be A MMA Fighter without Wrestling?
The explosion in popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and other Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) events has shined a light on one of America’s most popular and yet ignored sports, folkstyle wrestling. Great MMA fighters with extensive wrestling backgrounds such as Randy Coutore, Matt Hughes, and Matt Lindland has proven that wrestling is an integral part of any realistic Martial Arts training system. But what about wrestling has led so many wrestlers to MMA success?
One of the most important reasons is that lack of financial opportunities for wrestlers post-college. The United States is the only country in the world that actually teaches a different style of wrestling than the two types featured in the Olympics: Freestyle and Greco-roman. The folkstyle or scholastic style taught from youth all the way to the end of college is not an international style and so barring a bid at the Olympic Games, an event that occurs every four years, most wrestlers can not depend on wrestling to make a living. The opportunity to even make $1000 for a single low-level MMA fight is very tempting to amateur athletes.
Secondly, the skills developed through wrestling have direct applications toward Mixed Martial Arts. MMA and wrestling both include takedowns, greco-roman clinchwork, and the ability to scramble. Once the wrestler undergoes true MMA training which includes boxing, muay thai kickboxing, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, he will become even more dangerous.
Finally, the work ethic of wrestlers is legendary. They are conditioned to long brutal conditioning sessions in a sport which involves relatively large amounts of physical discomfort. Furthermore, they are used to short-term weight loss… an aspect of professional MMA competition that is oft-ignored. Fighters such as Tito Ortiz and Rich Franklin routinely cut 20 lbs from one day to the next which gives them a huge advantage. Being used to such a physical ordeal from their grappling days, wrestlers can adapt more easily to it.
Any aspiring fighter should be training in wrestling especially since the United States is so good at it.
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