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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bishmon" data-source="post: 4091773" data-attributes="member: 56176">I'd very much disagree with this. The idea behind mixed martial arts is to take away the particular limitations of most martial arts. For example, judokas don't strike, wrestlers don't strike, boxers don't kick or grapple. All of these were limitations hardwired into that martial art's rules. Mixed martial arts is to take away most of those limitations, and just let guys fight with what skills they have.Early on, the problems people had is they mostly fought in styles tailored to fights with particular rules. That's why we saw Gracie submit everyone, because if a guy trained in a style other than jiu-jitsu, he didn't have any submission defense.As guys realized how to fight without the particular restrictions of certain martial arts, they realized that to be a mixed martial artist, they had to expand their repetoire of skills. That's why more modern mixed martial artists are true mixed martial artists. They don't artificially confine their available skills to a particular style that wasn't designed for such an open fight.That's why I think modern guys would be more comparable to actual fighters that would have used their fighting for life and death. Those sorts of fighters wouldn't have had the luxury of confining their skills to particular styles that didn't encompass every possibility of an open fight. They would have needed to be extremely well-rounded in order to deal with whatever came their way in an open fight, the same way modern mixed martial artists have learned they need to be extremely well-rounded in order to deal with whatever comes at them in an open fight.</blockquote>

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