Joe Rogan & Terrance Crawford Settle MMA vs Boxing Debate

how would muay thai fair against a wrestler? im starting muay thai but wondering if i should just do mma

Terrence Crawford is REAL tough guy

Am I the only one seeing the way Bud just effortlessly pushes that dude in the first clip and the dude slams into the ground like Ray Lewis tackled him 😂 Its like he forgot he cant use his super powers in front of people for a second

He's 100percent correct

dude jake paul or logan paul is a better wrestler than you lol

People dont realise that most guys have a background in wrestling if you have ever done a highschool sport. Wrestling coaches are good at recruiting😂

It would be great to see him in MMA. I'm sure he'd be a top 5 given a few years to adapt.

He need to fight khabib or islam makachev in mma rules😂😂

I really like guys like him. You know the type of guys I mention, they are smart, analytical and cold honest about everything. Lennox was like that. Really like that ❤

Respect him a lot

People don’t understand how much harder it is to reach Crawfords level in boxing compared to reaching greatness levels in MMA. The pool of talent is just much deeper in boxing. If Crawford spent 2 years developing a ground game in his early 20s he’d of fucked up 90% of the people who walked through the UFC. Nobody is slipping this dudes jab in the octagon.

In my experience NOT TRUE that 9/10 street fights wind up on ground 5 STREET FIGHTS all but one vs 2 or more attackers, 1 (ONE) time went to ground. TWO out of 10, if extrapolate.

I ONLY prevailed because I AVOIDED the ground at all costs. The one on the ground, I reversed USING JUDO (sorry BJJ and UFC fanboy cult).

Out of prob 50ish hockey fights, went to ground more, but any time a ref involved (and rules, etc) not a street fight.

Number of times went to ground as a solo bouncer: 0
What I'm proud of - number of times someone I expelled had to go to hospital: 0


Most on here are probably fortunate enough to have never been in a street fight. I hope I never ever have to again. Even in self defense, it doesn't feel right beating another human being. Was always sleepless for days. It's not like in a sport in REAL, jumped by strangers, unavoidable life or death situations.

Anyway, yeah, can't quit with the "9/10 street fights wind up on the ground." 9 out of 10 real street fights end up one person dead or otherwise life altered from bouncing their head on concrete after a one-hit sucker punch, or getting kicked while unconscious by that guy's 3-5 accomplices.

The 9 times out of 10 for ending up on ground is a bit exaggerating, I've had at least 10 situations or so on the street (counting from elementary to high school to being a grown adult defending my mother) where i never ended on the ground wrestling. I guess its mostly cause i fought hispanics and blacks and they tend to model themselves after boxers just stand up fighting with your hands mostly. Thats how it is in the ghetto most of the time. Maybe football players and big meatheads tend to wrestle in street fights???? Or drunk people???? Idk maybe i was lucky

"There are no flukes in grappling, there is only inevitability"

Trifecta of fighting.

Mauy Thai for attacking. Mauy Thai is a modified form of boxing designed to minimize wasted movements. Punches and kicks are straight and speedy. Not much meta game. Deadly legs.

BJJ for defense against other wrestlers.
Need to be able to escape a hold or choke. As he said, most fights end up on the ground.

Boxing for meta game and strategy. Feints, parries, variations, difference stances, different gaurds.

Crawford is a mixed martial artist and doesn’t even know it 😆. Respect

Crazy

Old school boxers trained wrestling, some still do, I remember GGG used to do so. These arts ar very close historically

That’s why Jim Jitsu is so useful. Gives y you such an advantage once the fight hits the ground.

Terence Crawford is a smart man.

Front side check kick

The way he made that guy tap with slides and jeans on was crazy lol 💪🏽

I beg to differ if that wrestler takes down a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu that wrestler is going to die... And I think Royce Gracie prove that against the much bigger stronger wrestler Dan Severn and a bunch of other guys. The truth and the reality of the matter is if you're a wrestler and you don't know jiu jitsu and you take the jujitsu guy down the wrestler is the one thats screwed.. Demetrious Johnson just tapped out a dude who's like twice his weight. I respect wrestling and I respect boxing but I love when I hear nonsense like this.. Personally I've tapped out bigger dudes and I don't have a lick of wrestling experience but I know jiu jitsu... I will say this if the wrestler knows jiu jitsu and the jujitsu guy doesn't know wrestling then the Jiu-Jitsu guys in trouble... But if it's just a guy that knows just wrestling and the other guy knows jiu jitsu put your money on the jiu jitsu guy..

Lomachenko is an elite boxer that can wrestle too

if mma had no gloves, walls, or rounds, wrestler always wins

whooping feet

Nine times out of ten fights do not end up on the ground, thats one of those stupid lies that flew around the internet.

The vast majority of fights end up as one punch.

Much respect for Crawford after watching this interview.

Just plain FACTS. If you don't know it you WILL find it out.

Crawford is the best boxer on the planet in my opinion, he seems like a genuinely good dude too.

Pay this man some english lessons.

"Who you is"

Really ?

Well i dont care what he says i lived it a jiu-jitsu guy is always gonna beat a wrestler i know cause i done it so many times to so many different wreslters

In 10 different ways, he said the same point.

Middle school gyms are filled with wrestlers that would fuck up Floyd mayweather in an actual fight. That’s a reality.

40-0 Terence Crawford

Wasn't it Maurice Smith in one of the first ever UFC events that said "If you cant fight on the ground, you cant fight."?

MMA is the Insecure little brother of combat sports.

Dudes claim wrestling works until they shoot and catch a knee to the nose 💀

terrence crawford has gotta be the only boxer that could probably hold his own in mma

What study was done to demonstrate that 9/10 of all street fights end on the ground? I think that this lie was originally spread by the Gracies.

You can't outbox a boxer if you don't know how to box. If the opponent chooses to wrestle now you're here, you're wrestling. You can't out wrestle a wrestler if you don't know how to wrestle. Pretty basic logic it seems.

Whenever a wrestler changes levels after a feint. You take his head with a knee. UFC needs to get rid of the three point contact rule and let knees on downed opponents be legal. AJ Sterling is a good example of a wrestler cheating his way to be safe when he puts his hands and knees down to avoid a perfectly open knee. This is a reason why One Championship is better. Demetrius Johnson was flatlined by a knee, and he learned that this was a real fight compared to UFC. After that loss, he reclaimed the title by launching his own knee against the one who beat him. If knees on downed opponents were legal. Maybe Khabib would've taken a loss. In multiple fights, there were lots openings to fire off a knee when he shoots for a takedown.

For all of you saying that MMA would destroy boxers... One, first you have to grab him, if you don't, it's a rap... If the wrestler gets ahold of you and you don't basic techniques, you're done... But if you're a wrestler that can't defense a boxer, you are done... Try to go for a takedown and catch an uppercut... Night night

Bud is a bad man

Guys, make friends with the wrestlers.

ROLLY GOTTA BLACK BELT IN JUDO SO BUD AINT THE ONLY ONE

The start of all this cross over shit! Embarrassing

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There is no one realer than crawford

We had a guy in our gym who wrestled in college at a small weight class like 130 pounds or something and he would come to the MMA gym and he would be grappling with UFC guys who are 220 pounds and he was throwing them around like childrenand I remember his first few fights. We taught him some good basic fundamental striking but more to set up his takedowns and I mean, he would throw some shots in a way that would get people to cover up top and then he would take them down and control them elbow them in the face.

We had a guy in our gym who wrestled in college at a small weight class like 130 pounds or something and he would come to the MMA gym and he would be grappling with UFC guys who are 220 pounds and he was throwing them around like childrenand I remember his first few fights. We taught him some good basic fundamental striking but more to set up his takedowns and I mean, he would throw some shots in a way that would get people to cover up top and then he would take them down and control them elbow them in the face.