Only 10 unarmed martial arts have been proven to work

Karate



ITF Taekwondo



Judo



Brazilian Ju Jitu



Sambo

 

Greco Roman Wrestling



Freestyle Wrestling



Kickboxing



Muay Thai



Boxing



This means WTF, Hapkido, Kung Fu, Sumo, Wing Chun, Ninjutsu, Aikido, Japanese Ju Jitsu,Kalari, etc. don't really work because there's no resistance when you're learning.

 

You havn't defined your use of the term "proved".

Also all the arts you list as ineffective, can and are trained against resistance.

Especially sumo and WTF.

 

Sumo

Sumo in MMA? An Interesting Concept - Ultimate Fighting Championship-Mobile

 

WTF

 

WTF is unrealistic fighting and in recall sumo losing in early UFC

 

In every boxing match, boxing loses 50% of the time, if your going to make blanket statements without defined terms, you better be ready to come with the statistics.

By "proved" Do you mean as a sole art in a MMA bout?

 

Yep, so Is boxing, judo and sambo under your definations, but they will KO you if you don't do something about it ASAP.

 

Boom, case disproved!

 

WTF beat Bj Penn, so does that mean MMA/BJJ is worse them WTF?

 

like deadpool said. You have to define your parameters first before you claim something doesn't work.

 

Epic delusional post is epic....

Seriously OP, its like you are trying to het perma banned. This is simple crap posting with no basis in fact.

Even within the UFC alone I can list dozens of systems that have "proved" by garnering a victory including pro wrestling, Ninjutsu, trap fighting, boxing and sambo

Go give your head a shake and stop being polemical when you haven't earned the right to be

 

Recently, a promoter put a show on in Sheffield that allowed Wing Chun practitioners to compete against fighters from other disciplines under a modified Sanda rule set. The Wing Chun guys actually did ok.

 

@Dead_pool

While we're here, has Lau Gar actually worked in the cage? Because the only applied Lau Gar would be in kickboxing above the waist. The backfist-reverse punch doesn't cut it in full contact and/or K-1. As a matter of fact, I personally only know two people in MMA who did Lau Gar: Tom 'Kong' Watson (who also did boxing, Kyokushin and Muay Thai) and I personally know Bryony Tyrell who's won a few amateur MMA titles. I used to compete on the IMAO circuit and I just don't see Lau Gar measuring up to Muay Thai or Kyokushin. What about Lau Gar grappling because Bryony's strength is grappling.

Also Lau Gar was invented by Jeremy Yau when he came to the UK; there's nothing traditional about it.

 

I've trained in traditional ju jitsu ( people on this forum bash my school saying it's 'fake') and judo and no wrist locks or standing arm bars and figure 4 shoulder locks will ever measure up to a judoka who's used to randori. Ju jitsu and judo were from the same association and I learned a lot more useful things in judo.

I also trained kickboxing at 3 clubs and the only decent club was the one that DIDN'T do pointfighting. Funnily enough that club was part of Wutan martial arts and the kickboxing was influenced by Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Muay Thai and American kickboxing. So this either means Praying Mantis is better than Lau Gar or it means the benefits of the decent club came from the Muay Thai influence. There were no backfist-reverse punches or hopping side kicks and we didn't bother chambering kicks compared to the Lau-Gar based clubs

 

By the way ive trained at 9 clubs. I've trained in freestyle (Lau Gar) kickboxing, kickboxing based on Muay Thai and Praying Mantis, Goshin Ju Jitsu (same lineage as Vernon Bell and Kenshiro Abbe), Judo, Olympic wrestling and no-gi grappling. I've never achieved a black belt but I have gone up several belts and competed.

I don't do individual martial arts anymore- if/when I resume training (as I haven't trained in 5 months due to personal issues) I will do MMA as I enjoy MMA more than traditional