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Very dangerous assumption. I challenge even fedor to take on a dog brother. He will get his ass handed to him.
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First of all, that's just a wild assumption. Fedor - or any other world class fighter for that matter - has a great chance in any fight. He's used to being hit, and if he has the good sense to close to a range where the stick isn't as useful, then the tide turns. I've done full contact stick matches in Dog Brother fashion quite often, and I've been hit as hard as my partners could swing. I've been opened up by sticks, been bashed in the face, and had fingers broken. I'm here to tell you, it's going to take a whole lot for a rattan stick to stop someone cold in their tracks with one good shot. And the reality is that if it doesn 't stop a guy, then you have a fight on your hands!
MMA is a sport, just like boxing and wrestling. They're organized athletic events, not streetfights. But I'm here to tell you, a good athlete from a combat sport will hold his or her own in the real world far more often than not. You can delude yourself if you like and claim the superiority of this art over that art, this combat discipline over that combat sport, but the fact is a good athlete with pain tolerance and mental sharpness is going to kick the piss out of your average dojo hound that tries to convince himself MMA is nothing more than a sport without relevance.