Originally posted by: lyssword
OK lets clear something up. Elite MMA fighter faced BEST IN TEH FUCKING world. PROVEN FUCKING EXPERIENCE performs under pressure consistently. Not theory. Proven 30 wins against BEST and consistently beating them. Fuck crav maga, real hands on experience always wins. Show me an mma match where "crav maga" guy can do shit, not to mention it's poor man's juijitsu anyways.. A boxer with 1 year experience will rape "Kata Karate" or kung fu or any other non-contact sport. You just don't learn how to fight by doing theoretical training.
I don't claim I can beat either mma or seal guy. But I place my bets on MMA elite and I've given my reasons.
you are correct a Krav Maga fighter would loose in UFC badly, that's because 95% of what they're taught isn't allowed in the octagon. UFC & the Athletic Commission frown upon what they do. Ripping off a dudes nutts, eye gouging and small joint manipulation to name a few things are against the unified MMA rules in the US. Even in something like Rio Heroes which is much more brutal when it comes to what's allowed, pure Krav Maga wouldn't be allowed. Nobody in UFC trains to inflict instant near fatal damage, as they train to fight in a cage where there are rules. Krav Maga dudes don't train to fight for fun, it's life or death.
As for you saying people who train in a disipline that's mostly non-contact wouldn't do well in MMA. Look at Machida, he's almost all Karate and still manages to whoop ass.
BJJ isn't the end all be all of fight, it works extremly well in MMA because of submission, but in an all out street brawl going for an arm bar won't mean much when the dude your fighting is trying to snap your fingers off.
In a Street Fight, 8/10 I'd put my money on a Krav maga dude, the other 2 times a BJJ practitioner would be able to sink in a RNC put the guy to sleep.