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Originally Posted by Michael Wright
Although I am a big fan of all the above, all four arts are focussed around and operate within weight categories. Therefore I'm not sure that is what the guy was looking for. Would the attributes taken from any of those arts help him in a fight? Sure, but its perhaps not the specific answer to the problem posed, IMO.
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they all fight with weight limits because they are both assumed to be equally trained.
It doesn't change the fact that if you want to learn to hit HARD with WHAT YOU'VE GOT then boxing is the way to go.
If you want to learn to control another man's weight, even when he's much larger, then wrestling and judo have it.
And if you want to learn to control another man on the ground, and submit him, then it's BJJ, in my book.
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Sure, they fight within weight classes. What should we expect, 115 pound men fighting 215 pound men, both of them well trained, both of them in good condition?
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Weight classes exist because both fighters are trained. There is no "Magic Way for Small Guys" outside of good striking skills, good throwing skills, and good ground skills.
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At SBGi Portland, I'd see large, built construction workers, body builders, and others come in the gym's front door.
They'd get OWNED by the little guys there - in boxing, throwing, and ground. OWNED.
Why? Because those arts are great when a little man has to fight a big man.