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Fighting is very technical. Lot of dudes who think they're "hard" get dropped by private school kids who took kickboxing, wrestling, and jiu jitsu classes when they were young.

Absolutely. Was a doorman in college and routinely saw muscleheads get dropped by guys much smaller who could actually fight, that 300 lb+ bench press doesn't make up for a glass jaw . Boxed from ages 8-16 and it was all about spacing, ring discipline & technique. Of course you were taught how to throw combinations but defense was a huge part of the training. That being said, all things being equal (size, age, etc.) a well-trained boxer would get annihilated by someone with some good BJJ training.

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Posted by MattA

Member since Nov 2019

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Posted on 8/19/20 at 9:39 am to AZBadgerFan

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That being said, all things being equal (size, age, etc.) a well-trained boxer would get annihilated by someone with some good BJJ training.

If of course they don’t get jacked up looking for the TD. I’m a bjj guy, but I’m old now and def have more respect for the possibility of things to go south and not in my favor lol. But yeah if the TD is completed and other guy has no training it will be over pretty shortly. Mainly cause the other guy will gas hard after a minute.

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Posted by MWP

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Posted on 8/19/20 at 11:43 am to AZBadgerFan

A well trained boxer would absolutely not get annihilated by a BJJ guy and I kinda know, I have been training jits for about 12 years and been boxing since I was about 10 years old. It’s all about managing space. If a good boxer can connect with a grappler before he can get a takedown or be able to get some type of standing submission then it’s all she wrote for the BJJ guy. Plus the BJJ guy will not be looking for a takedown in a street fight anyway. We typically train to get off the ground in a street fight, not go to it. Now I will say that our brand of BJJ (I am under Royler Gracie) does focus on self defense first and we do incorporate some stand-up in our training, but putting even a Black Belt level jits guy against a real good boxer is not going to work out very well most of the time for the BJJ guy.

Point being with all of that is to train both.

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