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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The only thing that has made striking as useful as it currently is in NHB, is the fact that everyone who chooses to strike now knows grappling, and the simple fact that more guys are inclined to trade punches to prove that they can do it all.
I.E. Enson Inoue.
I have to commend you John on bringing this fact up, it is so true.
It seems everything in society eventually retroverts. After a while it becomes very boring knowing what is most efficient.
Even though most fights in NHB are still decided on the ground, everyone is so eager to scuttle back into the Dark Ages.
I do think this has a lot to do with the American mindset towards fighting though. Boxing has always been an old American tough man symbol. If you knew boxing in pregrappling times, you were considered a badass. Even Karate guys were seen as silly when compared to a boxer.
Now this has been obliterated, and I thnk it's hard for people to accept that you can actually win a fight by not being the romanticized Rocky character.
As for NHB, guys punch more now simply because they know that if they are taken to the ground they can survive. If these men did not know grappling we would continue to see the same slaughter that we saw in the beginning.
Hell, I can even remember before the UFC came along a discussion I had with a friend who was heaivly into boxing, and who was training for the golden glvoes at the time. He used to sit around and talk so enthusiastically on what a boxer would do if he was forced into a corner, and how he would simply use Joe Lewis' angular fighting techniques to keep a guy from crowding him.
It's all so hilarious now to see all of this put into practice, and for it to be proven rather useless. Yet we are still there.
It's been said before, and I'll say it again. 100% of all fights begin on your feet, but only 10% of them actually remain there.
The only thing that has made striking as useful as it currently is in NHB, is the fact that everyone who chooses to strike now knows grappling, and the simple fact that more guys are inclined to trade punches to prove that they can do it all.
I.E. Enson Inoue.
I have to commend you John on bringing this fact up, it is so true.
It seems everything in society eventually retroverts. After a while it becomes very boring knowing what is most efficient.
Even though most fights in NHB are still decided on the ground, everyone is so eager to scuttle back into the Dark Ages.
I do think this has a lot to do with the American mindset towards fighting though. Boxing has always been an old American tough man symbol. If you knew boxing in pregrappling times, you were considered a badass. Even Karate guys were seen as silly when compared to a boxer.
Now this has been obliterated, and I thnk it's hard for people to accept that you can actually win a fight by not being the romanticized Rocky character.
As for NHB, guys punch more now simply because they know that if they are taken to the ground they can survive. If these men did not know grappling we would continue to see the same slaughter that we saw in the beginning.
Hell, I can even remember before the UFC came along a discussion I had with a friend who was heaivly into boxing, and who was training for the golden glvoes at the time. He used to sit around and talk so enthusiastically on what a boxer would do if he was forced into a corner, and how he would simply use Joe Lewis' angular fighting techniques to keep a guy from crowding him.
It's all so hilarious now to see all of this put into practice, and for it to be proven rather useless. Yet we are still there.
It's been said before, and I'll say it again. 100% of all fights begin on your feet, but only 10% of them actually remain there.
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