What techniques should I NOT train for incorporating boxing with MT/MMA?

***WhiteShark*** · Posted On: 8/03/2011 4:23am

Originally Posted by Auszi

Which one are you referring to, UFC 74 or UFC 124?

Really? Maybe the one with the 5,000 jabs?

**Auszi** · Posted On: 8/03/2011 4:24am

))Smart ass. I just watched 74. I think one of the last takedowns GSP doesn't even wait as soon as the left is moving he takes him down.

**atomicpoet** · Posted On: 8/03/2011 3:59pm

Originally Posted by Snake Plissken

flicking while moving is fine on occasion when you only have one-half a body to worry about.
many top level boxers have made a career out of this, but eating a slap to land a takedown is a fair trade.

This doesn't make for a long career, however. As Willie Pep once said, "First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends."

A perfect example of this would be Paulie Malignaggi. He's always flicking his jab. At 30-years-old, he's already on the downslide of his career.

***WhiteShark*** · Posted On: 8/03/2011 4:46pm

Originally Posted by Auszi

))Smart ass. I just watched 74. I think one of the last takedowns GSP doesn't even wait as soon as the left is moving he takes him down.

I hadn't even thought of the counter example. In the more recent fight GSP jabs Koschecks face into ground beef. There is no "flicking" going on.

**Snake Plissken** · Posted On: 8/03/2011 5:48pm

Originally Posted by atomicpoet

This doesn't make for a long career, however. As Willie Pep once said, "First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends."

A perfect example of this would be Paulie Malignaggi. He's always flicking his jab. At 30-years-old, he's already on the downslide of his career.

True, and Pep was a legend.
Without a derail, I would say guys like Malignaggi, Michael Olajide, Calvin Grove (Olajide and Grove were the two guys I was thinking of) all made a pretty damned decent career and reached some of the highest ranks of boxing, considering they couldn't punch their way through a wet tissue.