I’ve always wondered why Capoeira isn’t more effective in MMA. It’s a style that is very unpredictable and when done right, unless you’re Tony Jaa, is very hard to defend against.
Case in point is this clip of a recent muay thai smoker in which one of the fighters turns his opponent’s lights out with a crazy Au Batido variation.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/7BrC)
I’ve always wondered why Capoeira isn’t more effective in MMA. It’s a style that is very unpredictable and when done right, unless you’re Tony Jaa, is very hard to defend against.
Case in point is this clip of a recent muay thai smoker in which one of the fighters turns his opponent’s lights out with a crazy Au Batido variation.
(GifProps: Damn Severn from the UG)
Be honest, you’re going to go out in the backyard and try this move tonight, aren’t you?
(Video courtesy BREAK/SportScience)
If you watched Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu this weekend and read any of the ensuing commentary on MMA websites and messageboards, by now you have digested a lot of talk about the weak chins of fighters like R…
(Video courtesy BREAK/SportScience)
If you watched Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu this weekend and read any of the ensuing commentary on MMA websites and messageboards, by now you have digested a lot of talk about the weak chins of fighters like Renato "Babalu" Sobral, Scott Smith, Mike Kyle and Matt Lindland.
If a fighter’s health is at risk, either long or short-term, then I’m all for them hanging up the gloves, but it isn’t up to anyone but them to decide when that time is.
As far as the uninformed opinions that a fighter’s "KO button" is easier to push or that his chin is weaker as a compound result of multiple knockouts incurred over the span of his career, both are fundamentally incorrect.