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What? The UFC lightweight title (155) was first held by Jens Pulver (a wrestler/boxer) then Sean Sherk (wrestler) then Bj Penn until 2010 (BJJ prodigy) Every s
by CodeAndCuffs 8y ago
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The UFC lightweight title (155) was first held by Jens Pulver (a wrestler/boxer) then Sean Sherk (wrestler) then Bj Penn until 2010 (BJJ prodigy)
Every single UFC tournament has been won by wrestlers, sambo fighters, and bjj fighters, with the exception for UFC 3 where Steve Jennum (Ninjitsu) was an alternate and fought in the finals, where he won by a sloppy armbar.
The upperweights are similar. Historically dominated by wrestlers and grapplers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFC_champions#Lightweight_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFC_champions#Lightwei...
- vinceguidry 8y agoThis might have been pre-UFC. I'm paraphrasing off of a remembered Quora answer.
- gambler 8y ago>Steve Jennum (Ninjitsu) was an alternate and fought in the finals, where he won by a sloppy armbar. Ever heard of confirmation bias? Well, you're engaging in it right now. If winning an early UFC is "evidence" of MA effectiveness (which I don't think it is) then Steve Jennum's victory should be accepted as "evidence" that Ninjitsu is effective. But you've just offhandedly dismissed it. This a common pattern. Often, when a practitioner of traditional martial arts wins an MMA fight of any sort, MMA fans proclaim it "doesn't count" because of one of the following: - It supposedly didn't look like their style of fighting. - They cross-trained in other martial arts. - The opponent wasn't "good enough" or the match wasn't high-level enough. On the flip side, the same fans don't seem to care at all whether BJJ people or wrestlers cross-train, whether their actual performance "looks" like their style, or which techniques they used to win. Again, confirmation bias all around.