Thread: The next couple of months in MMA

That was probably the most brutal MMA card I've ever watched. Also great night of fights.
Anyway on the topic of strengths and weaknesses, I'm pretty much the opposite of you djwolford. My grappling is good enough to hang with most people outside my weight class/experience and is by far my greatest strength, but my striking is terrible. Well I mean I've never got to test it out on someone my size(everyone I train with is a lot bigger than me), so brawling actually might work in my weight class, but I'd rather have technique. It'll all come with experience I guess, right now when I try boxing I have absolutely zero fluidity. But whatever, I have a decent jab and a pretty mean right cross. My main problem is getting overconfident. Again, most of the people I train with are a lot stronger than me so my game plan is keep distance with my jab, stick and move when I get a chance. I tend to land a couple stiff jabs, start landing my cross, then get too cocky and try and stand in the pocket and put together a combination after the 1-2. Usually ends with me getting dropped pretty hard.
Oh yeah and I really need to stop dropping my left hand after I throw a cross.

edit: Also dj wtf, if grappling is your weakest point thats what you should be training. I'm doing nothing but boxing, then muay thai once I'm comfortable with my hands until I get a muay thai fight (my team is pretty small so we can really focus on our weaknesses instead of having a generalized class). I figure if I can beat grapplers in pure grappling and kick boxers in pure kick boxing, I'll do pretty good in MMA.

Originally Posted by raghead

edit: Also dj wtf, if grappling is your weakest point thats what you should be training.

I know, I really should be. Striking comes naturally to me though, so I've always been pretty good with it. I just can't stand to do something that I get beat at time after time, even if I know I have to improve on my ground game if I ever want to get anywhere. I'll probably get back in to bjj classes here pretty soon and work on it. It's not like I'm actually going to fight anytime soon anyway so it's ok for now. I'd like to get to about 195 and then cut down to MW. I think being that big in that weight class would be a nice advantage.

When I was around 175 I considered trying to make LW but realized that it would be a shitty thing to do if I made the cut.

Also, you're right about the card being brutal. Somewhere between Koscheck's two knockouts in one fight, Al-Hassans arm, Hill's leg(ugh), Saunders destroying dude's face, Wiman's epic blood loss strategy and Goulet being Goulet...it was pretty harsh for a UFC event. It almost reminded me of old school UFC.