🗑️ 🧵 The future of MMA
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jul 2023 19:02:08 UTC No. 154594
I've seen a guy who liked both boxing and MMA but prefered boxing because MMA is still a young sport and, according to him, nobody has reached its full potential yet.
Do you think MMA is actually still far from its full potential? How will it look a couple years or decades from now? Which skills will the fighters improve?
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jul 2023 19:41:35 UTC No. 154602
Reads. Feints. The heavyweight division still falls to pieces every few years because big men make way more money at a multitude of other things, boxing among them, so you don't really get to see people working with a fear of casual power from a lot of fighters. There's still a lack of people who are really good at annoying shit that you don't get to see often first hand from specialists, so it'll catch you. Think Machida's point distance style, Silva's very specifically Thai clinch, etc.