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I just watched the Brazilian Vale Tudo fighting tapes #5 and #6 back to back. If you never seen them..there are alot of matches! Each tape has 4 weight classes and in each weight class its a 4 fight tournament so each tape has four full tournaments on it..that is ALOT of fights.
If you haven't seen these tapes. They are very professional produced by federico lapenda. It is not a gracie backed marketing strategy. They are extremely UN-biased towards any style. You see guys advertising themselves as just about everything under the sun..You had, jiu-jitsu, capoiera, tae kwon do, muay thai, chinese boxing,
karate, kung fu, luta livre, and something called sipalki-do.
The funny thing is that no matter what style the guy said he was..when the fight was on..it went straight to the ground and every one was grappling real well.
If I group every single match together in a percentage group. There was only 1 fight that ended standing up with strikes resulting in a knockout. There was 1 fight that ended with the takedown resulting in a knockout. Out of the rest of all the fights 75% ended with the rear choke,
13% ended in leg locks, 7% in armlocks and 5% in striking on the ground from mount till they gave up.
That really spells out JIU-JITSU to me! and whats more, In every single weight class and tournament that had a guy who called himself jiu-jitsu..had the jiu-jitsu guy win, except for one, the jiu-jitsu guy won the whole thing, and the one they didn't,..they made it to the final match and the match was stopped..losing to a luta livre guy.
If I group the styles together in order of best showing it would look something like this.
1-jiu-jitsu
2-luta-livre
3-muay thai
4-boxing
5-full contact/freestyle
6-capoiera
7-chinese boxing
8-sipalki-do
9-kung fu
10-tae kwon do.
The jiu-jitsu obviously had the best showing and best looking takedowns and groundwork..but it really is stupid because every single fighter was grappling jiu-jitsu. Why would you call yourself..capoiera or chinese boxing and then run in get a takedown and get mount. Its stupid..jiu-jitsu is the only art that works!
75% lost to rear choke..damn!
If you haven't seen these tapes. They are very professional produced by federico lapenda. It is not a gracie backed marketing strategy. They are extremely UN-biased towards any style. You see guys advertising themselves as just about everything under the sun..You had, jiu-jitsu, capoiera, tae kwon do, muay thai, chinese boxing,
karate, kung fu, luta livre, and something called sipalki-do.
The funny thing is that no matter what style the guy said he was..when the fight was on..it went straight to the ground and every one was grappling real well.
If I group every single match together in a percentage group. There was only 1 fight that ended standing up with strikes resulting in a knockout. There was 1 fight that ended with the takedown resulting in a knockout. Out of the rest of all the fights 75% ended with the rear choke,
13% ended in leg locks, 7% in armlocks and 5% in striking on the ground from mount till they gave up.
That really spells out JIU-JITSU to me! and whats more, In every single weight class and tournament that had a guy who called himself jiu-jitsu..had the jiu-jitsu guy win, except for one, the jiu-jitsu guy won the whole thing, and the one they didn't,..they made it to the final match and the match was stopped..losing to a luta livre guy.
If I group the styles together in order of best showing it would look something like this.
1-jiu-jitsu
2-luta-livre
3-muay thai
4-boxing
5-full contact/freestyle
6-capoiera
7-chinese boxing
8-sipalki-do
9-kung fu
10-tae kwon do.
The jiu-jitsu obviously had the best showing and best looking takedowns and groundwork..but it really is stupid because every single fighter was grappling jiu-jitsu. Why would you call yourself..capoiera or chinese boxing and then run in get a takedown and get mount. Its stupid..jiu-jitsu is the only art that works!
75% lost to rear choke..damn!
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