That's the truth man . I had to cut down to 150 from 160 in 4 hours to wrestle a freshman that was a 3 time junior high state champ . My coach didn't want our 150 to get man handled and we had another solid 160 . I was so drained . It was a straight chess match the first round . Shoulder clinch fighting . I caught him with a Greco-Roman throw to pin . I caught a Charlie horse pinning him in my fucking calf . Had I been on the ground second round he probably would have got me from exhaustion and being dehydrated
Seth Williams ok. Were you running on your own time as well or just in practice? Cause either you’re not very bright or your coach didn’t know what he was doing. That’s way too much running. I did both cross country and wrestling in middle school and only wrestled in high school so I don’t know what it was like at that level but when I did it we ran maybe 2 or 3 miles 5 days a week including the actual meets. In wrestling it was I don’t even know how many miles in a bunch of different types of running exercises. Sprints, shuttles, Indian runs, intervals etc. my cardio was ridiculous.
Spencer Leon if your cross country practise only consists of running a few miles a day, your coach was retarded tbh. There is absolutely no reason you should be running more in wrestling than cross country.
Wrestling is the most exhaustive activity I ever tried. Played fullback, have boxed 6 rounds more than once, have swam 2 miles a few times. None compares with trying to pin or my case just survive a wrestling workout. Those guys are in great shape.
Lol dude my senior year I was so out of shape I won 23 matches that year and I pinned every kid in those matches. I would always die after the second round. I wrestled like 3 full matches that year and lost them lol
would you rather fight a wrestler or fight a guy who can break metal poles & baseball bats with his kicks? all I know is i'd rather tap out than have my leg snapped in half
Nah. I'm a jiu jitsu lover, and I agreed 100% with Dean. Most Jiu Jitsu guys have zero problem acknowledging the difference in approach and mentality. I've never met a jiu jitsu guy who had a problem admitting that wrestling is way more physically demanding and mentally tough than jiu jitsu. I can be on my back for 10 minutes playing guard and not get tired. Where as a couple minutes of wrestling will wreck me (I am NOT a wrestler lol). So I highly doubt Joe would be soft enough and irrational enough to deny the obvious. The video literally starts off with Joe praising wrestling and saying it's first on the list of necessary and efficient martial arts for mma. You really think he hasn't ever analyzed the differences?
@@flipgsp Exactly. JJ is technical af and it´s not easy by any means, but just in terms of sheer grueling-ness, wrestling (especially standup wrestling, imo) is sooo fucking hard. I can roll on the ground for minutes but 45 seconds of wrestling on the feet with some real effort, and I´m about to throw up.
Lets assume ufc was around back then. The issue is that he would be below the average skill level even if he had 2-3 years of training, so when it went to the ground he would be outwrestled even if he knew how. However, if he had wrestled for years on top of the boxing hed be a fuckin machine. Imagine his punching power in 4 oz gloves
Wrestling is the most dominant martial art. Even if you're a mediocre striker but have wrestling you can make it far. Wrestlers are a different breed. 6 out of the 8 UFC champs come from a wrestling background. That's mad.
Eeeeeeeh not exactly. That's just the time we're in. For example in women's division are there female wrestlers that are champions? DJ is pretty good. Max too.
karl jonson Exactly, if Joe and Din were talking about the most dominant art back in the days of the early UFC, they would be talking about BJJ. In my opinion every style has potential if it is drilled and practiced correctly. That’s why we see many wrestlers who have been in shape and drilling since they were little kids and much fewer from other styles as they haven’t got the same amount of mat time and competition that wrestling gives.
@@JJ-te3yf Just because they have wrestled in their teens doesn't mean that their mma base is wrestling . When you talk about Jones and TJ the first thing that comes to mind is great striking not wrestling .
Max Rai their wrestlers tho dude. Obviously Jones style isnt going to be wrestling, he’s taller and longer than every person he fights. They all have tools in their toolkit but they came from wrestling
So you musta started in high school lol same here fracturing my l1 and l5 in college now my son wrestles in high school did 2 mins bout died couldn’t really do anything after words and thought 19 years ago I’d do this all day then come home and practice on anyone that let me grueling sports but at 45 years old most the young bucks at work can’t keep up with me
The worst would be your straight conditioning practices... Soon as you're done with your stretching and warm up jog coaches just blow the whistle and scream "PAIR UP, GROUPS OF 3's". You know you're fucked... No drills, No technique... You know it's going to be 2-3 hours of straight wrestling, and then an hour of straight sprinting/jogging and whatever other fucking exercise like Burpies, wheelbarrels, fireman carries etc... you can think of..... Ugh.... Took me so long to leave the locker room after those.
@@Tikimohn I remember when we had fucked up as a team, we would finish doing our warm ups in the track and would walk in to the wrestling room thinking it would be another day in the office til we saw a red flag hanging somewhere in the room. We knew we were so fucked lmao. 3-4 hours of intense conditioning. At least 1 person would throw up everytime.
@@yo2stix I remember the first week of practice was always brutal, our second most brutal series of practices. Was always to weed out the guys that couldn't hack it.
People really sleep on judo. It's way harder than anything. It's like wrestling and bjj combined. Especially when you get slammed the wind gets knocked out of you.
@@bornfree8073 So you mean dominating and beating other strong and in shape people is gay? What sport do you play? The only thing as hard if not harder than wrestling is swimming. Maybe you should stop acting like a tough guy and being homophobic
Sergїo arcїga Jr Football is not as hard as wrestling. I played football and wrestled and most football players who tried wrestling out couldn’t hang and ended up quitting after their first practice.
I remember from my wrestling days one particular: Elimination. We started from the lightest to the heaviest. You won, you got a heavier opponent. If that doesn't teach you your place, nothing will.
I remember shark bait. You wrestle someone, the whistle blows, and immediately without stopping, that someone leaves and a fresh guy that had plenty of rest charges at you. You do a few rounds of those and then someone else is the shark bait.
@@aaronkennedy1765 on what level? Youth wrestling, maybe. When you're dealing with a legit good wrestler, he will easily use some heavyweight wrestler with average skills, like a child. Anybody that has actually wrestled above the youth level has witnessed it first hand. Saying things like " I was heavy so I always ran through my opponents" makes me think you have actually never wrestled, or you were the kid that was like bigger than everyone and was in youth wrestling with kids that are 1-3 years into it. I'll speak for all wrestlers that's been in the game long enough, talent will overcome weight. Unless it's like an 8 year old kid wrestling a kid 40 lbs heavier than him. Every wrestling room will see a kid at lightweight that is elite, destroying some kid at heavyweight that is trash. I was pretty badass in my youth, made states every year and could pin all of big weight guys because they sucked.
A friend of mine was a wrestler in high school and then joined the army. Boot camp was a breeze for him because his wrestling training was harder than bootcamp was.
Dillashaw is incredible to watch man, in my opinion he could be the Pound for Pound number 1 right now. Especially after he starches Cejudo. Like Joe said, Wrestlers don’t like facing Wrestlers who can really strike
I grew up wrestling. I wrestled through highschool and most years, did freestyle after school practice. All my friends were wrestlers and even on the weekends we wrestled nonstop for hours and hours in the living room. It will teach humility and to break your own limits. Today, my son is wrestling in highschool. There has been no single greater mental challenge in my life than wrestling. Everything else is easy
Wrestling is definitely tough, but I disagree that wrestling makes "Everything else easy." Let's see you swim out into massive surf with no swim fins and no flotation device, and there's a strong rip current pulling over sharp coral reef. You'd get dragged into the impact zone and get smoked! No human is tougher than the ocean, my friend. I don't care how physically and mentally tough you are. The ocean will just swallow you up, and suck away all of your energy like you're insignificant.
As a wrestler, it’s something different. I’ve done Basketball, Track, and Soccer, none of them compare with the uncomfortable condition. The practices are hard, to really do a wrestling season, showing up to every practice, knowing you likely want to skip the next practice. It’s honestly about being tough, offensive, working hard, little to know breaks. Live wrestling, and learning some life skills, it’s just crazy, and wrestling gives you a high like a runner’s high. And you sometimes miss it, but you almost don’t miss the hard workouts, and during this quarantine, many like me are missing it so bad! Wrestlers, who want to be there in the room, not just there to lose weight, or stay in shape for the next sports season, or because someone told them they had to do something to get out of the house, are something special, something different. And I’m my opinion, wrestling is the most underrated commonly found sport in high school and college.
I have never looked forward to a wrestling practice. The warmups combined with the smell of chlorine as the freshmen were cleaning the mats was always eerie. It was the calm before the storm. Once the mat dries, and the warmups are done, a hellish practice was about to begin.
Brings back those memories of getting up at 4 am just to shed off those last 2 pounds before weigh ins, it was a brutal sport but molded me into a young lion
The grind those guys go through is on par with what those early vale tudo guys trained in the 80's and 90's. It is something about having another man trying to impose his will on you.
Ox not just having him impose his will on you. He does it while you do the same to them. Any one can work out a little and end up being able to bench or lift their own body weight but now try to struggle against your own body weight for 10 min trying to pin it to the ground while it fights back with the same strength as you. Nothing feels better than a quick pin.
My grandfather saw the titanic and he warned everyone that it would sink but nobody would listen. He told people a few more times and then he was kicked out of the cinema.
Dude it’s still wrestling, it’s like saying sambo isn’t a form of wrestling 😂. So many people are in denial that’s its the strongest base form of MMA and I’m formally a strike because of my body type and athleticism but it’s true. Khabib world class wrestling beat a world class striker in conor. Jones, Cormier, stipe, woodley, gsp, tj etc all began in wrestling. The competing in wrestling, as they said during the video is on a higher level, hence why it’s the oldest Olympic sport. A complete/perfect fighter is someone that can execute wrestling, submissions and kickboxing to a high level.
Daniel Johnson bro. That ain’t cool. We all have what we believe in, even if it’s nothing. As a Christian it’s great to have other religions out there. We all believe in the same thing, just have different understandings of how it came to be.
Yeah Conor is like fifty times as entertaining and has an extremely good record and is an amazing striker. Should I not like him for some reason? Cause he lost to khabib? He also lost to mayweather, knowing full well he probably would going into it. It's kind of part of his MO. I'm not saying khabib isn't fantastic I'm just saying his style is boring to watch as a form of entertainment. He's very good at a boring thing.
The wrestling coaches at my old school did not recognize any other sport as a tough sport. Football was for babies in their eyes, and after seeing the level of competitiveness and dedication our wrestling team had all I could do was nod in agreement. They won state almost every year, and cumulatively the school has the most titles in state history.
Fun fact: Most knights and people in the middle ages trained wrestling rather than striking when it came to empty handed skills, due to the prevalence of daggers, since if you were not not armed it was more important to be able to grapple and take someone down in order to secure a disarm. Strikes were most often used to set up take downs
I started wrestling when I was kid, I’ll always remember starting varsity as Freshman at 160, my coach bumped me up to 189 being under weight and I was beating juniors and seniors, and a lot of it came from just having mental toughness, no other sport teaches it like wrestling And I’ve done all the other sports and love them but nothing compares to it, also being mainly a wrestler growing up it made playing other sports a lot easier and not just in sports but in life too
How things have changed. Back in the day, I used to argue with my classmates all the time about wrestling being a much more physically and mentally demanding sport than basketball in high school, but everyone used to disagree, saying wrestling was easier because it is only 3 6-min periods, where basketball was 4 12-min quarters. Nice to see more respect for wrestlers.
I’m getting threatened by some guys and I don’t know how to defend myself...What’s best to learn I can’t decide on boxing, Muay Thai, Jui Jitsu, combat sambo or judo???
I wrestled 4 years in Highschool. I've done mma after and had about 7 fights. Won them all, nothing was as hard as wrestling. I dont fight or compete any more I just enjoy it as a fan but these guys are not kidding. Wrestling breeds a different type
Hey bro i have a question, i want to be an UFC fighter, im a good striker because i practiced kempo since i was 12, now im training MMA. Can i be a high level Wrestler (to be in the UFC) in 2 or 3 years? Im 20 years old lol
@@Joseabh24 Just depends on u. I'm planning to become a professional MMA fighter and I have no background. (I live in a very small town in Nebraska, so the closest MMA gym is 100 miles from where I live.) So I've got a late start but I'm gonna see how quick I learn and what my style is. I personally hope to hear ur name in the MMA community. Good luck!
@erhhqw the ufc scouts talent from other places ig, if you're good enough and win big amateur matches, and pro matches, mma organizations will probably notice you
Wrestlers don’t fuck with wrestlers, we respect each other, so if a wrestler that can throw hands, I’m gonna respect him more, I loved that sport man. Damn
Wrestlers are so tough because they treat a high school practice like it's a fucking special forces training session. Couple this with the fact that wrestling is very structured and systematic with the way it's implemented in the school systems, allowing for very efficient progression. If every other martial arts program had these attributes, their adherents would be just as tough.
When I was in high school, the star of our football team decided to try wrestling because it was getting more popular in school. He spent the whole season bitching and complaining about everything from how much conditioning we did to the 25 year old mats we practiced on. Mental toughness is what separates wrestlers from other athletes
Ahhh the glory days. This convo takes me back...Up early before school training/running around the lake sweatin my ass off with trash bags under my clothes as a sweat suit. 💪🏽
I wrestled in high school and I only did for two months because I need to help my family and now I work security and the wrestling moves I learned have helped me a lot more than I thought they ever would
Wrestlers are super tough dudes for sure, but the current rule set in the UFC also favors wrestlers. The cage aspect is a huge part, no knees to a down opponent, no upkicks, etc, 5 min rounds etc.
I used to get my ass beat by boxers. Then I started taking all of the bullies down! I slammed them and pounded their faces into mush. I did'nt even know how to punch but boxing with wrestling is the best Martial Art! Love you bro!
I wrestled for 5 years - all year long. It is one of toughest sports. Most of the football players dropped out after 2 weeks. Cutting weight is difficult too. Having the wrestling background is so important in MMA. Joe is correct, you get to control the fight.
My son was an all state football player who decided to start wrestling as a sophomore to “stay in shape” for football…after his first practice he walked in the house, stripped off his sweat soaked workout clothes and went straight to bed…I walked in and asked him how wrestling practice was and he said it sucked worse than anything he’d ever done!! 😂😂😂
Wrestling really does foster an alpha male mentality. It's great. Even in high-school. Constant misery made "worth it" by a few minutes of real competition. We lived for real matches, where we could prove we were top dog. Even the games we played in the room. King of the Hill, after everyone was absolutely dogshit tired, proved who was the best in the team. It was fucking awesome.
Wrestling has kicked my ass more then training for boxing.... boxing I could go through with ease but wrestling gets me fucking exhausted, especially when they turn the fucking heater on... 😩
Man I regret not start wrestling as a kid .I started 6 years ago at 26, at my mma gym.I fell in love with it. I couldn’t believe I went all those years not training. As soon as my kids are older, I’m definitely putting them in wrestling, over anything else first.
Oh same 100%. I started wrestling junior year in highschool and I was really bummed out that I missed that opportunity. Definitely putting my kids in wrestling early.
@@jpc3984 Yea man, it sucks that wrestling isn’t part of my family. I cant blame my parents though, all they know is baseball and football lol. We’re Puerto Rican, we’re not known for 🤼. My daughter is 11 and son is 5 now, i want to get them involved ASAP.
MMA wrestling is quite different than sport wrestling. Some wrestlers adjust easier than others of course. The mindset brought to MMA from wrestling is the most helpful aspect in my opinion; from a coaches standpoint.
I wrestled with a friend 20 years ago and my heart rate has not been that crazy since then. My heart rate when I see a buck in the woods is crazy but it’s different.
Man, even in high school wrestling was absolutely brutal. Wrestled in middle school and high school. It felt like that’s all you were focused on year round. Practices in the morning before school, practice after school, then on the stationary bike or jogging a couple hours after getting home to eat and study. Then you did it all over again the next day and the next. The thought of quitting enters your mind but you shake that off and keep at it. When you’re varsity you got several other guys constantly trying to get better to take your spot. No only that, we had drills where the varsity guys stayed in the entire time while the JV guys rotated in “fresh” while we stayed in exhausted as all hell. Wrestling is an experience I’ll never forget. I joined the military after and graduated boot camp with honors. Getting up early to PT, then trying to deprive you of food, or making you study after a long PT session was nothing. I fuckin gained weight in boot camp lmao.
If you know how to wrestle, you will never get your ass kicked. You may not win a fight, but you won't get whooped on. When you have thousands of hours rolling on mats and conditioning. Regular people become inferior. Run until you cry! You will find yourself and learn to exclude weakness! Been thru the passage.
I only for a semester in highschool. I'm 27 now, I'm an amateur boxer. I've done taekwondo, swimming, rugby, American football, cross country, and I have to say, wrestling was by far the hardest most draining sport I've ever done. Anyone who's ever wrestled competitively for a couple of years, I respect the hell out of you. You guys are the toughest dudes in the world.
After wrestling, everything in life is easy- Dan Gable. I wrestled 7 years and I firmly believe if everyone had to endure a wrestling practice there would be a lot less complaining 😂
Keep at it bro. I quit my junior year in high school cause i took 2 losses and my ego took a hit. Leaving the team is stillone of my biggest regrets. But i left the mat with more knowledge to defend myself if i ever go to the ground
The wrestling room is intense. Being an insecure 11 year old in the middle school wrestling room was intimidated man. Good thing is that no one on that team could beat me the next year
Wrestling feels like a more natural type of combat without any weapons because the natural instinct is to clinch and avoid getting punched and then dominate the person with strength. Realistically if a wrestler and a striker were in a street fight , if the wrestler could make smart moves and avoid really bad face crushing blows, quickly land a take down it's over. Unlike UFC there's no rounds to get back up and start on your feet
You guys will find my comment weird, but it also has something to do with mountains. People living on mountains are tough as fuck. If you read history, mountain dwellers and desert dwellers have always kicked ass lol.
wrestling and being to the point of no physical strength left trying to pin an opponent, almost like battle to the last of your breath, as opposed to walking around striking and kicking and having normal breathing patterns help keep you going, almost able to regain stamina, but those wrestlers just go full boar all the time and never get tired against strikers
Yep! People constantly talk about his striking being weak yet he's beaten everybody on the feet including the so called best striker in the world (Conor Mcgregor)
Khabibs wrestling is the only reason his terrible striking comes even close to working. If he were to just straight up kickbox he would get his ass owned even by amateurs. When Conor got knocked down with that one right hand if you look closely it only landed because he had his hands down for trying to block Khabibs shoot for a double. If Conor would have ignored the shoot and just kept his hands up like usual he would have never gotten tagged. He would have gotten taken down more. He was actually doing pretty good against the take downs u til his crappy cardio got to him.
I think u guys are over rating his striking. He isn't that great it comes from the element of suprise. When u think khabib u think wrestling poor striking. What he does is he takes his opponents down or fake the takedown so everyone becomes so focused on that he gets them cause they forgot that he can punch too uno.
But doesn't everyone consider Kevin Lee a very good striker? Because Iaquinta beat him in striking with ease yet Khabib beat Iaquinta with ease. And before you make the argument, Kevin Lee was just as threatening with his wrestling as Khabib was
I'm grateful I did a couple years of wrestling in high school. Got mauled but got tough as fuck in a short amount of time. Considering going to a wrestling camp eventually to give me an extra edge in juijitsu and mma
Wrestling is the best sport for many reasons, anyone who's ever been to a tournament and watched the youth compete knows how humbling this sport is. I wrestled for 8 years and I've seen more kids broken down than you could ever compare to any sport. The reason is you can't blame your loss on anyone other than yourself, its extremely personal. When my daughter turned 8 i made her wrestle, she did it for 2 years and it tought her a lot. If you want, go watch any youth tournament and i guarantee you will see it time after time.
As a wrestler, I think the only reason why it is so dominate, is because it is so common in the US. Especially the amount of people who start it at a young age. There are 100 kids who grew up wrestling, for every 1 kid who grew up boxing or in BJJ etc.
But coudnt part of why wrestling is so popular compared to other martial arts be that it is very effective and professional? Karate juijitsu etc, the coaches are often not combat experienced and the methods of strenght endurance and agility training are not nearly as sophisticated in other sports than they are in wrestling.
Back in high school we had a guest coach. Dude was like an alternate for the national team and an assistant coach at Seton Hall U. He ran conditioning and I literally questioned if I would make it out of that room alive. I was a sophomore and decided THAT day I would never wrestle in college. RIP Kenser Defresne
I do boxing and wrestling, when I wrestle live 3 minutes straight and the end of class, that is one of the hardest thing to do and boxing workouts felt easier after wrestling
Here is a stupid anecdote. In high school we tried to throw the wrestling coach into the swimming pool. Senior prank stuff. It was at least 30 to 1. He threw some of us in the swimming pool. We couldn't get enough hands on him to control him. We got in each other's way. End of story, but gotta say, wresting is badass.
Wrestling for 6 minutes after fasting for a day helps you learn who you are very quickly
Please no
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Blake gee pretty much😂 its soo hard. But at least u dont have to wrestle until the day after the weight in
Wish I woulda stuck with wrestling when I was young but I was too skinny to be a real threat :/
That's the truth man . I had to cut down to 150 from 160 in 4 hours to wrestle a freshman that was a 3 time junior high state champ . My coach didn't want our 150 to get man handled and we had another solid 160 . I was so drained . It was a straight chess match the first round . Shoulder clinch fighting . I caught him with a Greco-Roman throw to pin . I caught a Charlie horse pinning him in my fucking calf . Had I been on the ground second round he probably would have got me from exhaustion and being dehydrated
I ran more in wrestling practice than cross country.
Spencer Leon says a lot about the type of conditioning wrestling requires
We didn’t run as much but Jesus Christ fire men carries up a stadium suck ass
how? I was a slightly above average runner and I’d be running 40 miles per week
Seth Williams ok. Were you running on your own time as well or just in practice? Cause either you’re not very bright or your coach didn’t know what he was doing. That’s way too much running. I did both cross country and wrestling in middle school and only wrestled in high school so I don’t know what it was like at that level but when I did it we ran maybe 2 or 3 miles 5 days a week including the actual meets. In wrestling it was I don’t even know how many miles in a bunch of different types of running exercises. Sprints, shuttles, Indian runs, intervals etc. my cardio was ridiculous.
Spencer Leon if your cross country practise only consists of running a few miles a day, your coach was retarded tbh.
There is absolutely no reason you should be running more in wrestling than cross country.
Wrestling is the most exhaustive activity I ever tried. Played fullback, have boxed 6 rounds more than once, have swam 2 miles a few times. None compares with trying to pin or my case just survive a wrestling workout. Those guys are in great shape.
10 seconds feel like an eternity in wrestling
Lol
Lol dude my senior year I was so out of shape I won 23 matches that year and I pinned every kid in those matches. I would always die after the second round. I wrestled like 3 full matches that year and lost them lol
would you rather fight a wrestler or fight a guy who can break metal poles & baseball bats with his kicks? all I know is i'd rather tap out than have my leg snapped in half
😂 that’s a fact. People don’t understand how intense that sport is
Hair levels are critically low sir!
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@Nobody Unknown So would you like me to hold the spit? Sir?
They're like baby seals 😂
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Bro. Go take care of Butt stallion. Not be watching UA-cam.
Joe was extremely upset and triggered on the inside about the jiu jitsu comments.
Jiu Jitsu and weed he hit all the right chords
Yep. You can see him swallow hard at that point.
For sure.
Nah. I'm a jiu jitsu lover, and I agreed 100% with Dean. Most Jiu Jitsu guys have zero problem acknowledging the difference in approach and mentality. I've never met a jiu jitsu guy who had a problem admitting that wrestling is way more physically demanding and mentally tough than jiu jitsu. I can be on my back for 10 minutes playing guard and not get tired. Where as a couple minutes of wrestling will wreck me (I am NOT a wrestler lol). So I highly doubt Joe would be soft enough and irrational enough to deny the obvious. The video literally starts off with Joe praising wrestling and saying it's first on the list of necessary and efficient martial arts for mma. You really think he hasn't ever analyzed the differences?
@@flipgsp Exactly. JJ is technical af and it´s not easy by any means, but just in terms of sheer grueling-ness, wrestling (especially standup wrestling, imo) is sooo fucking hard. I can roll on the ground for minutes but 45 seconds of wrestling on the feet with some real effort, and I´m about to throw up.
As a striker, i admit that wrestling is practically superior. Idc how good you are at punching and kicking, once you go down it's over
Montin Yek agreed, wrestlers and judokas kick my ass during training every time we spare for fun
not always, but most of the time
I think boxing is more effective than wrestling on the streets.
Krule
Can’t box from your back bud
Krule Joe blow can get lucky and knock out a good boxer but you can’t say that about grappling
Imagine teaching wrestling to mike tyson in his prime
now that would be thavage!
Thats was murderous machine ever made
Lets assume ufc was around back then. The issue is that he would be below the average skill level even if he had 2-3 years of training, so when it went to the ground he would be outwrestled even if he knew how.
However, if he had wrestled for years on top of the boxing hed be a fuckin machine. Imagine his punching power in 4 oz gloves
@@jakbak3566 first ufc tournament was in 1993. MMA came even earlier. But the difference is that everyone knew only 1 martial art.
@@dzimikes thats not true at all, haha
Dudes scull rockin the mohawk
Fucking LOL
F F S 😂
Skullhawk, my next heavy metal bands name.
Shepherd Fanatic ...lmao
Hugh Johnson with singles like 'I cant keep my hat on'
Wrestling is the most dominant martial art. Even if you're a mediocre striker but have wrestling you can make it far. Wrestlers are a different breed. 6 out of the 8 UFC champs come from a wrestling background. That's mad.
Eeeeeeeh not exactly. That's just the time we're in. For example in women's division are there female wrestlers that are champions? DJ is pretty good. Max too.
@@karljonson3287
He made a factual statement and you still had some smart ass comment
karl jonson Exactly, if Joe and Din were talking about the most dominant art back in the days of the early UFC, they would be talking about BJJ. In my opinion every style has potential if it is drilled and practiced correctly. That’s why we see many wrestlers who have been in shape and drilling since they were little kids and much fewer from other styles as they haven’t got the same amount of mat time and competition that wrestling gives.
@@JJ-te3yf Just because they have wrestled in their teens doesn't mean that their mma base is wrestling . When you talk about Jones and TJ the first thing that comes to mind is great striking not wrestling .
Max Rai their wrestlers tho dude. Obviously Jones style isnt going to be wrestling, he’s taller and longer than every person he fights. They all have tools in their toolkit but they came from wrestling
Hahaha about smoking pot at Jui Jujitsu school!
I trained at Dins mma gym in stuart fl and mostly all his coaches and students smoked weed
Leg lock for you bitch
@Brian Moore Better have a brain of a 12 year old, than a body of a 80 year old. haha
If you think you have great conditioning, go wrestle live and you'll be shocked how bad your conditioning is
If you're a wrestler go box and see how pathetic you are.
The Dapper Don I’ve done both extensively. Wrestling is more taxing.
So true .. Recently I wrestled Two Guys ..picked up the win but Damn I was Exhausted and it kinda made me not to try wrestling again
@@zsxdemon boxing isnt fighting either is wrestling but in mma using wrestling hart
The Dapper Don haha dumbass. Wrestling is WAYYYY more grueling. Bet you can’t do 10 rounds of 3 minute wrestling.
Wrestling 3 minute rounds is the most exhausting thing that I have ever done.
that right ..
15 years of it. You are correct. Dont care at all what your conditioning background is. Most cant even go for one 2 minute round without wheezing
@@jayvdub5390 or barfing
2 minutes was HELL for me. I've never been that tired in my life again.
So you musta started in high school lol same here fracturing my l1 and l5 in college now my son wrestles in high school did 2 mins bout died couldn’t really do anything after words and thought 19 years ago I’d do this all day then come home and practice on anyone that let me grueling sports but at 45 years old most the young bucks at work can’t keep up with me
Wrestling practice. You had to get your head right before you entered. Never ever an easy day.
Athletic Performance Shooting every fuccin day 3+ hours you’re right I wud have to get pumped up for practice just to get thru it
The worst would be your straight conditioning practices... Soon as you're done with your stretching and warm up jog coaches just blow the whistle and scream "PAIR UP, GROUPS OF 3's". You know you're fucked... No drills, No technique... You know it's going to be 2-3 hours of straight wrestling, and then an hour of straight sprinting/jogging and whatever other fucking exercise like Burpies, wheelbarrels, fireman carries etc... you can think of..... Ugh.... Took me so long to leave the locker room after those.
@@Tikimohn I remember when we had fucked up as a team, we would finish doing our warm ups in the track and would walk in to the wrestling room thinking it would be another day in the office til we saw a red flag hanging somewhere in the room. We knew we were so fucked lmao. 3-4 hours of intense conditioning. At least 1 person would throw up everytime.
My freshman year...4 hour practices. So brutal. I was a complete fish. Took beatings all year.
@@yo2stix I remember the first week of practice was always brutal, our second most brutal series of practices. Was always to weed out the guys that couldn't hack it.
If you're reading this you should know Jamie got an A in physics
No he dropped out hahaha
So why is he employed as Joe's Google looker-upper?
thanks for informing me
What school did you go to Einstein?
@Elon Musk Joe's Google looker-upper.
And wrestling is an ancient martial artist. I mean the ancient civilisations had that as a sport.
It Is Probably The Longest Existing Martial Art. Look At Every Continent. All Have Some Ancient Form Of Wresting/Grappling.
And it’s the most natural one: animals, especially kids, wrestle too.
Ancient Indian "mythology" is riddled with legendary wrestlers.
@@azizka9177 you forgeting the knuckles on your hand bruh? boxing is ancient too..
Wrestling and boxing the oldest
"Wrestlers are tough. Look at khabib"
Khabib- "judo"
Haha exactly
Yeah so many people don’t know he’s a judo black belt
People really sleep on judo. It's way harder than anything. It's like wrestling and bjj combined. Especially when you get slammed the wind gets knocked out of you.
"Judo is another class. You know class? "- khabib to cejudo on anatomy of fightet
@@djbobby224 it's like gi bjj combined with wrestling but without single or double lega
They are right about wrestling. BY FAR hardest sport I was involved in. Hard to take certain people seriously from weaker sports after wrestling.
@@bornfree8073 So you mean dominating and beating other strong and in shape people is gay? What sport do you play? The only thing as hard if not harder than wrestling is swimming. Maybe you should stop acting like a tough guy and being homophobic
@@tile1522 he's just a lazy midget who sits on his ass all day in front of screen. Don't take him seriously buddy.
Rob Mangeri what about football ? The best athletes in the USA play football
Sergїo arcїga Jr Football is not as hard as wrestling. I played football and wrestled and most football players who tried wrestling out couldn’t hang and ended up quitting after their first practice.
This thread has me ROLLING.
I remember from my wrestling days one particular: Elimination.
We started from the lightest to the heaviest. You won, you got a heavier opponent.
If that doesn't teach you your place, nothing will.
I was heavy so I always ran through my opponent’s
I remember shark bait. You wrestle someone, the whistle blows, and immediately without stopping, that someone leaves and a fresh guy that had plenty of rest charges at you. You do a few rounds of those and then someone else is the shark bait.
We played a game where u had to be on base and try to pin someone else and my 300 plus lbs coach who go play with us
King of the Mat
@@aaronkennedy1765 on what level? Youth wrestling, maybe. When you're dealing with a legit good wrestler, he will easily use some heavyweight wrestler with average skills, like a child. Anybody that has actually wrestled above the youth level has witnessed it first hand. Saying things like " I was heavy so I always ran through my opponents" makes me think you have actually never wrestled, or you were the kid that was like bigger than everyone and was in youth wrestling with kids that are 1-3 years into it. I'll speak for all wrestlers that's been in the game long enough, talent will overcome weight. Unless it's like an 8 year old kid wrestling a kid 40 lbs heavier than him. Every wrestling room will see a kid at lightweight that is elite, destroying some kid at heavyweight that is trash. I was pretty badass in my youth, made states every year and could pin all of big weight guys because they sucked.
A friend of mine was a wrestler in high school and then joined the army. Boot camp was a breeze for him because his wrestling training was harder than bootcamp was.
My brother did the same and said this as well. “The DI’s can’t put hands on me like coach could!”
A lot of soldiers wrestle, boot camp should be easier for them. Don't know about special forces tho.
@@grappling.enthusiast that’s a whole different level; having wrestling experience can’t hurt though.
@@c_rock3512
True that conditioning should be handy.
bruh
Not saying Brock lesnar is the best but the only reason Brock did somewhat decent in the ufc was because of his wrestling background
He won the belt in his 4th ever mma fight. That's great, not decent.
@Dinero He won against the best fighters after barely training and having less fighting experience than all of them. That's skill.
@206- Sea He was half his WWE size. Other fighters were taking more than him.
....the massive amount of steroids he took might have helped too....sorry, but no respect for that guy, complete doping cheat
@@seheadhunter50 eh,ufc heavyweight roster sucked back then
Shoutout to all wrestlers 🤼♀️
I wrestle also
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My man✊
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Let’s go states are soon
Dillashaw is a wrestler who became a striker. Really the complete package.
So is his training partner Aaron pico. He's only like 6-1 but he is a fucking nightmare.
Facts
@@1994Trill That kid's got body shots from hell. So impressive.
Dillashaw is incredible to watch man, in my opinion he could be the Pound for Pound number 1 right now. Especially after he starches Cejudo. Like Joe said, Wrestlers don’t like facing Wrestlers who can really strike
@@1994Trill Pico is a little different he's been boxing since he was a kid so technically striker turned wrestler turned mma fighter
I grew up wrestling. I wrestled through highschool and most years, did freestyle after school practice. All my friends were wrestlers and even on the weekends we wrestled nonstop for hours and hours in the living room. It will teach humility and to break your own limits. Today, my son is wrestling in highschool. There has been no single greater mental challenge in my life than wrestling. Everything else is easy
Wrestling is definitely tough, but I disagree that wrestling makes "Everything else easy." Let's see you swim out into massive surf with no swim fins and no flotation device, and there's a strong rip current pulling over sharp coral reef. You'd get dragged into the impact zone and get smoked! No human is tougher than the ocean, my friend. I don't care how physically and mentally tough you are. The ocean will just swallow you up, and suck away all of your energy like you're insignificant.
this guy looking like he boutta grow another head
😂💀💀😂😂💀💀💀💀😂💀💀💀💀
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"Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy"
I wish 😢
As a wrestler, it’s something different. I’ve done Basketball, Track, and Soccer, none of them compare with the uncomfortable condition. The practices are hard, to really do a wrestling season, showing up to every practice, knowing you likely want to skip the next practice. It’s honestly about being tough, offensive, working hard, little to know breaks. Live wrestling, and learning some life skills, it’s just crazy, and wrestling gives you a high like a runner’s high. And you sometimes miss it, but you almost don’t miss the hard workouts, and during this quarantine, many like me are missing it so bad! Wrestlers, who want to be there in the room, not just there to lose weight, or stay in shape for the next sports season, or because someone told them they had to do something to get out of the house, are something special, something different. And I’m my opinion, wrestling is the most underrated commonly found sport in high school and college.
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I have never looked forward to a wrestling practice. The warmups combined with the smell of chlorine as the freshmen were cleaning the mats was always eerie. It was the calm before the storm. Once the mat dries, and the warmups are done, a hellish practice was about to begin.
Is there a Sunday league for wrestling lol
Facts, miss that too
@@777Skeptic fr I hate the smell of the mats
Brings back those memories of getting up at 4 am just to shed off those last 2 pounds before weigh ins, it was a brutal sport but molded me into a young lion
Lol good one mate, now go back to your moms basement trolling people on your keyboard 😂
I used to wear a track suit and a letter men and jump rope for those last hours before weigh ins lmao
With the trashbag underneath the sweatsuit at 6am the day of weigh-ins cutting those last few pounds of waterweight.
“Jon you really think I’m gonna sit here and let you kill me?” -Picograms to Jon
Underrated comment XD
Comment thief
Lmfao
Lmao that’s good.
The grind those guys go through is on par with what those early vale tudo guys trained in the 80's and 90's. It is something about having another man trying to impose his will on you.
I'm about to impose my will on you.
Ox not just having him impose his will on you. He does it while you do the same to them. Any one can work out a little and end up being able to bench or lift their own body weight but now try to struggle against your own body weight for 10 min trying to pin it to the ground while it fights back with the same strength as you. Nothing feels better than a quick pin.
My grandfather saw the titanic and he warned everyone that it would sink but nobody would listen. He told people a few more times and then he was kicked out of the cinema.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 died laughing at work 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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@@Moabd19 leiterly makes no sense
@@MessiahJah estaba riendome mucho
@@MessiahJah just shut the fuck off why are stupid fucks like you even on the internet
Dan Gable : “after wrestling nothing in life is hard”
Seems to be true. Sakuraba beat all the Gracies. His background... wrestling.
Submission wrestling *
@@pasxidhs627 but still wrestling type.
@@hunainh3766 yes but submission wrestling is different. You can turtle in wrestling. Doing that in any submission competition is giving a free W
@@pasxidhs627 He started as an amateur wrestler.
Dude it’s still wrestling, it’s like saying sambo isn’t a form of wrestling 😂. So many people are in denial that’s its the strongest base form of MMA and I’m formally a strike because of my body type and athleticism but it’s true. Khabib world class wrestling beat a world class striker in conor. Jones, Cormier, stipe, woodley, gsp, tj etc all began in wrestling. The competing in wrestling, as they said during the video is on a higher level, hence why it’s the oldest Olympic sport. A complete/perfect fighter is someone that can execute wrestling, submissions and kickboxing to a high level.
i wrestled 1,5 hours a day during ramadan, that my man that was hard
Props to you brother cant imagine the exhaustion
Me too
Stop following that shit religion.. lol.. be an atheist.
Daniel Johnson bro. That ain’t cool. We all have what we believe in, even if it’s nothing. As a Christian it’s great to have other religions out there. We all believe in the same thing, just have different understandings of how it came to be.
@@taylorowens3721 hes a dummy
Then there's the casuals (e.g. Conor fanboys) saying it's "boring" cause their favorite fighters get destroyed when going up against a wrestler LOL
Yeah but..... it IS boring.
@@koalanectar9382 wrong. If you just want striking, watch boxing!
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Yeah Conor is like fifty times as entertaining and has an extremely good record and is an amazing striker. Should I not like him for some reason? Cause he lost to khabib? He also lost to mayweather, knowing full well he probably would going into it. It's kind of part of his MO. I'm not saying khabib isn't fantastic I'm just saying his style is boring to watch as a form of entertainment. He's very good at a boring thing.
@@koalanectar9382 He's s dumb mick bastard.
The wrestling coaches at my old school did not recognize any other sport as a tough sport. Football was for babies in their eyes, and after seeing the level of competitiveness and dedication our wrestling team had all I could do was nod in agreement. They won state almost every year, and cumulatively the school has the most titles in state history.
What school?
@@XeraYT Probably Perry High from Oklahoma
Fun fact: Most knights and people in the middle ages trained wrestling rather than striking when it came to empty handed skills, due to the prevalence of daggers, since if you were not not armed it was more important to be able to grapple and take someone down in order to secure a disarm. Strikes were most often used to set up take downs
Joe "Wrestlers are so Jackkked... so jacked" Rogan
Jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjaaaaaaaaacckkkkkkkkkkkked
Badoooooosh
I ran track, wrestled, play football and basketball in high school. The wrestling program conditioning was exponentially harder that the other sports.
I started wrestling when I was kid, I’ll always remember starting varsity as Freshman at 160, my coach bumped me up to 189 being under weight and I was beating juniors and seniors, and a lot of it came from just having mental toughness, no other sport teaches it like wrestling And I’ve done all the other sports and love them but nothing compares to it, also being mainly a wrestler growing up it made playing other sports a lot easier and not just in sports but in life too
Wtf what bjj schools is din Thomas been going to😂😂😂😂😂🤔
Alfredo Barragan 502 I wouldn’t necessarily say that
Alfredo Barragan 502 idk everything is trash compared to this gun
@@crunchiest698 Pussy
Alfredo Barragan 502 it’s just different they are for different parts of fighting
How things have changed. Back in the day, I used to argue with my classmates all the time about wrestling being a much more physically and mentally demanding sport than basketball in high school, but everyone used to disagree, saying wrestling was easier because it is only 3 6-min periods, where basketball was 4 12-min quarters. Nice to see more respect for wrestlers.
The full body 120% cardiac output. Nothing like it
The longest 6 minutes of your life.
I did football then did wrestling and I’ll say wrestling is easily the toughest thing I have ever done
Wrestling is the most grueling thing I’ve ever done in my entire high school sports career
why? what about judo?
@@boliussa
Take a judo class. Then take a wrestling class. Then you’ll understand why.
@@shredgod6394 i'm too old
@@boliussa the attitude and culture in the room
I’m getting threatened by some guys and I don’t know how to defend myself...What’s best to learn I can’t decide on boxing, Muay Thai, Jui Jitsu, combat sambo or judo???
if you’re being threatened buy a strap
MMA
I wrestled 4 years in Highschool. I've done mma after and had about 7 fights. Won them all, nothing was as hard as wrestling. I dont fight or compete any more I just enjoy it as a fan but these guys are not kidding. Wrestling breeds a different type
Hey bro i have a question, i want to be an UFC fighter, im a good striker because i practiced kempo since i was 12, now im training MMA. Can i be a high level Wrestler (to be in the UFC) in 2 or 3 years? Im 20 years old lol
@@Joseabh24 Just depends on u. I'm planning to become a professional MMA fighter and I have no background. (I live in a very small town in Nebraska, so the closest MMA gym is 100 miles from where I live.) So I've got a late start but I'm gonna see how quick I learn and what my style is. I personally hope to hear ur name in the MMA community. Good luck!
@@Joseabh24
You can , it depends if you will
@erhhqw the ufc scouts talent from other places ig, if you're good enough and win big amateur matches, and pro matches, mma organizations will probably notice you
Yeah wrestlers usually have a lot of unity with their bodies when they move so usually stronger than they look
Wrestlers don’t fuck with wrestlers, we respect each other, so if a wrestler that can throw hands, I’m gonna respect him more, I loved that sport man. Damn
Exactly, this.
dam I'm thinking about joining wrestling and these comments about conditioning are intimidating af 😭😭😭
Your body will get used to it after a week
Wrestlers are so tough because they treat a high school practice like it's a fucking special forces training session. Couple this with the fact that wrestling is very structured and systematic with the way it's implemented in the school systems, allowing for very efficient progression. If every other martial arts program had these attributes, their adherents would be just as tough.
Rogan didn't like it when he said bjj guys are lazy compared to wrestlers lol
When I was in high school, the star of our football team decided to try wrestling because it was getting more popular in school. He spent the whole season bitching and complaining about everything from how much conditioning we did to the 25 year old mats we practiced on. Mental toughness is what separates wrestlers from other athletes
DC, wrestlers
yoel romero, wrestlers
Khabib
Tryone woodley
mighty mouse
Cain Velazquez
need i say more?
Stipe Fucking Miočić
+Floyd Harrison Henry Cejudo too.
Askren. 👀
Jon Jones?
Brock lesnar, Randy Couture, Dan Severn, Don Frye
I honestly dont think any other sport can make you lose 14 pounds in 2 hours on a daily and consistent basis
Ahhh the glory days. This convo takes me back...Up early before school training/running around the lake sweatin my ass off with trash bags under my clothes as a sweat suit. 💪🏽
Yep
One of my favorite bits in JRE history. “Wrestling is about dominating...”: Din rings the bell with his take.
I wrestled in high school and I only did for two months because I need to help my family and now I work security and the wrestling moves I learned have helped me a lot more than I thought they ever would
How long ago were you in high school? I’m wondering to see because it’s been 4 years since I wrestled and wonder if I still got it.
@@stevanaldape3424 you probably still do
Same here
Wrestlers are super tough dudes for sure, but the current rule set in the UFC also favors wrestlers. The cage aspect is a huge part, no knees to a down opponent, no upkicks, etc, 5 min rounds etc.
I used to get my ass beat by boxers. Then I started taking all of the bullies down! I slammed them and pounded their faces into mush. I did'nt even know how to punch but boxing with wrestling is the best Martial Art! Love you bro!
I wrestled for 5 years - all year long. It is one of toughest sports. Most of the football players dropped out after 2 weeks. Cutting weight is difficult too. Having the wrestling background is so important in MMA. Joe is correct, you get to control the fight.
He said he disagreed, but said nothing to counter what Joe said about wrestling lol
My son was an all state football player who decided to start wrestling as a sophomore to “stay in shape” for football…after his first practice he walked in the house, stripped off his sweat soaked workout clothes and went straight to bed…I walked in and asked him how wrestling practice was and he said it sucked worse than anything he’d ever done!! 😂😂😂
Wrestling really does foster an alpha male mentality. It's great.
Even in high-school.
Constant misery made "worth it" by a few minutes of real competition. We lived for real matches, where we could prove we were top dog.
Even the games we played in the room. King of the Hill, after everyone was absolutely dogshit tired, proved who was the best in the team.
It was fucking awesome.
I haven't wrestled in 7 years and it is the most exhausting thing I've ever done and its the one thing I've missed the most in my life
Aleksandar Karelin apsolute king.
He was beaten up by Martyn Ford
This guy's forhead has a story of its own!
Wrestling has kicked my ass more then training for boxing.... boxing I could go through with ease but wrestling gets me fucking exhausted, especially when they turn the fucking heater on... 😩
Wish I could go back in time and start wrestling
Man I regret not start wrestling as a kid .I started 6 years ago at 26, at my mma gym.I fell in love with it. I couldn’t believe I went all those years not training. As soon as my kids are older, I’m definitely putting them in wrestling, over anything else first.
Oh same 100%. I started wrestling junior year in highschool and I was really bummed out that I missed that opportunity. Definitely putting my kids in wrestling early.
@@jpc3984 Yea man, it sucks that wrestling isn’t part of my family. I cant blame my parents though, all they know is baseball and football lol. We’re Puerto Rican, we’re not known for 🤼. My daughter is 11 and son is 5 now, i want to get them involved ASAP.
Same
@@solodolo_mma3971 Get ya son in when he's about 8 fam🦾
@@solodolo_mma3971 put the younger one in a gymnastics or tumbling program first.....will really help them get a head start
I love wrestling. The feeling after 5 minutes of non stop wrestling is exhausting, but addictive.
MMA wrestling is quite different than sport wrestling. Some wrestlers adjust easier than others of course. The mindset brought to MMA from wrestling is the most helpful aspect in my opinion; from a coaches standpoint.
I wrestled with a friend 20 years ago and my heart rate has not been that crazy since then. My heart rate when I see a buck in the woods is crazy but it’s different.
Man, even in high school wrestling was absolutely brutal. Wrestled in middle school and high school. It felt like that’s all you were focused on year round. Practices in the morning before school, practice after school, then on the stationary bike or jogging a couple hours after getting home to eat and study. Then you did it all over again the next day and the next. The thought of quitting enters your mind but you shake that off and keep at it. When you’re varsity you got several other guys constantly trying to get better to take your spot. No only that, we had drills where the varsity guys stayed in the entire time while the JV guys rotated in “fresh” while we stayed in exhausted as all hell. Wrestling is an experience I’ll never forget. I joined the military after and graduated boot camp with honors. Getting up early to PT, then trying to deprive you of food, or making you study after a long PT session was nothing. I fuckin gained weight in boot camp lmao.
If you know how to wrestle, you will never get your ass kicked. You may not win a fight, but you won't get whooped on. When you have thousands of hours rolling on mats and conditioning. Regular people become inferior. Run until you cry! You will find yourself and learn to exclude weakness! Been thru the passage.
Yessir 🤼🏽♂️
I only for a semester in highschool. I'm 27 now, I'm an amateur boxer. I've done taekwondo, swimming, rugby, American football, cross country, and I have to say, wrestling was by far the hardest most draining sport I've ever done. Anyone who's ever wrestled competitively for a couple of years, I respect the hell out of you. You guys are the toughest dudes in the world.
Yeahhh I’m bout to start wrestling I need the training and conditioning.. it’s hard to beat a a good wrestler in real life
I used to do wrestling and I was the only girl there
*it was a little awkward*
Oof
Female wrestlers get a lot from wrestling in highschool scholarships are so easy to
Glad I’m in wrestling
Carlos Cabrera same
Keep at it and happy hunting fellas
After wrestling, everything in life is easy- Dan Gable. I wrestled 7 years and I firmly believe if everyone had to endure a wrestling practice there would be a lot less complaining 😂
Keep at it bro. I quit my junior year in high school cause i took 2 losses and my ego took a hit. Leaving the team is stillone of my biggest regrets. But i left the mat with more knowledge to defend myself if i ever go to the ground
MilesDavis I fart a lot 💨 that’s why I don’t train. Because someone would grab me and I’d fart for 4 seconds.
Just 2 guys being bald
The wrestling room is intense. Being an insecure 11 year old in the middle school wrestling room was intimidated man. Good thing is that no one on that team could beat me the next year
Wrestling feels like a more natural type of combat without any weapons because the natural instinct is to clinch and avoid getting punched and then dominate the person with strength. Realistically if a wrestler and a striker were in a street fight , if the wrestler could make smart moves and avoid really bad face crushing blows, quickly land a take down it's over. Unlike UFC there's no rounds to get back up and start on your feet
Khabib will never be defeated in a fight.I wish Tony or Diaz could beat him but that will not simply happen.Never.
You guys will find my comment weird, but it also has something to do with mountains. People living on mountains are tough as fuck. If you read history, mountain dwellers and desert dwellers have always kicked ass lol.
Mashallah🦾
Neil de grasse Tyson was captain of the wrestling team in high school, think about that
Dan but still he's still pretty cool and he was actually jacked when he was younger
Almost every dominant ufc champ was a wrestler
wrestling and being to the point of no physical strength left trying to pin an opponent, almost like battle to the last of your breath, as opposed to walking around striking and kicking and having normal breathing patterns help keep you going, almost able to regain stamina, but those wrestlers just go full boar all the time and never get tired against strikers
Khabib's striking is underrated, kicks and punches.
Yep! People constantly talk about his striking being weak yet he's beaten everybody on the feet including the so called best striker in the world (Conor Mcgregor)
Khabibs wrestling is the only reason his terrible striking comes even close to working. If he were to just straight up kickbox he would get his ass owned even by amateurs. When Conor got knocked down with that one right hand if you look closely it only landed because he had his hands down for trying to block Khabibs shoot for a double. If Conor would have ignored the shoot and just kept his hands up like usual he would have never gotten tagged. He would have gotten taken down more. He was actually doing pretty good against the take downs u til his crappy cardio got to him.
I think u guys are over rating his striking. He isn't that great it comes from the element of suprise. When u think khabib u think wrestling poor striking. What he does is he takes his opponents down or fake the takedown so everyone becomes so focused on that he gets them cause they forgot that he can punch too uno.
But doesn't everyone consider Kevin Lee a very good striker? Because Iaquinta beat him in striking with ease yet Khabib beat Iaquinta with ease. And before you make the argument, Kevin Lee was just as threatening with his wrestling as Khabib was
Empire of Chaos it’s the threat of his wrestling that allows him to strike . In a straight up boxing or kickboxing match he would get hurt badly
Is bjj similar to wrestling? What makes them different?
My biggest regret about high school will always be that I never did wrestling.
I'm grateful I did a couple years of wrestling in high school. Got mauled but got tough as fuck in a short amount of time. Considering going to a wrestling camp eventually to give me an extra edge in juijitsu and mma
If Mike Tyson in his prime wrestled and fought in MMA… just let that thought sit for a bit while I sip this tea. 🌚
Wrestling is the best sport for many reasons, anyone who's ever been to a tournament and watched the youth compete knows how humbling this sport is. I wrestled for 8 years and I've seen more kids broken down than you could ever compare to any sport. The reason is you can't blame your loss on anyone other than yourself, its extremely personal. When my daughter turned 8 i made her wrestle, she did it for 2 years and it tought her a lot. If you want, go watch any youth tournament and i guarantee you will see it time after time.
Wrestling is dope. Seeing people getting superplexed off that turn buckle is crazy. 😁
Hes talking about actual wrestling bro LMAO Not WWE
I’ve done both, wrestled and boxed. Wrestling really helps you build that mental fortitude but boxing shortens your life expectancy.
No biased point here
Very true.
In that I mean some boxers brains are mush by the time theyre 40.
Few things more dangerous than a wrestler who can strike. That’s some scary shit.
Yup Randy Couture was the first that was well rounded at it in UFC
Aaron Scott he’s in my top 5 favorites of all time. Having both literally means you’re dangerous at any time from anywhere.
When you pick up a guy off the floor and drop him that's 230 and you weigh 170 it's so freaking hilarious.
As a wrestler, I think the only reason why it is so dominate, is because it is so common in the US. Especially the amount of people who start it at a young age. There are 100 kids who grew up wrestling, for every 1 kid who grew up boxing or in BJJ etc.
But coudnt part of why wrestling is so popular compared to other martial arts be that it is very effective and professional? Karate juijitsu etc, the coaches are often not combat experienced and the methods of strenght endurance and agility training are not nearly as sophisticated in other sports than they are in wrestling.
That's not the main reason why wrestling is superior
Jiu Jitsu, yes, boxing??? no. There's a lot of boxers around the world, even in here Australia there's like one wrestler to 1000 boxers.
Back in high school we had a guest coach. Dude was like an alternate for the national team and an assistant coach at Seton Hall U. He ran conditioning and I literally questioned if I would make it out of that room alive. I was a sophomore and decided THAT day I would never wrestle in college. RIP Kenser Defresne
I do boxing and wrestling, when I wrestle live 3 minutes straight and the end of class, that is one of the hardest thing to do and boxing workouts felt easier after wrestling
How do u do both
At a gym or in high school? At my team we wrestle for 12-18 mins just live depending on the day(b4 sprints after drills more live etc)
khamzat dominance , jon jones heavyweight win, khabib, islam, kamarus dominance. yep it’s fair to say wrestling is overpowered in MMA
I wrestled and boxed and played soccer. Wrestling workouts only time I puked from working out.
Here is a stupid anecdote. In high school we tried to throw the wrestling coach into the swimming pool. Senior prank stuff. It was at least 30 to 1. He threw some of us in the swimming pool. We couldn't get enough hands on him to control him. We got in each other's way. End of story, but gotta say, wresting is badass.