Statistically Speaking,which Discipline Wins The Most Ultimate Fighter Championship?

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1. Frank the tank on October 31st, 2009 9:56 pm

   Well, let’s check the facts:
   UFC heavyweight champion: Randy Couture, his main style is wrestling.
   UFC light-heavyweight champion: Rampage Jackson, his main sytle is wrestling.
   UFC middle-weight champion: Anderson Silva, his main styles are muay thai and brazilian ju-jitsu.
   UFC welterweight champion: we have two currently (one actual, one interim) Georges St. Pierre, his main style is kyokushin karate, although he is VERY proficient in brazilian jiujitsu and wrestling as well; Matt Serra, his main style is brazilian jiujitsu.
   UFC light-weight champion: Sean Sherk, his main style is wrestling. He was stripped for steroid use, so the title is pending between BJ Penn (his main style is brazilian jiujitsu)and Joe Stevenson (his main sytle is wrestling)
   which do you see as the most dominant style? the clear answer is actually wrestling.
   However , the discipline that wins the most MMA fights (including the ultimate fighting championship or UFC for short), is mixed martial arts.
   MMA fighters no longer train in only one style, the basic ones most of them learn are boxing, muay thai, wrestling, and brazilian jiujitsu, other fighters are known to use Judo, Karate, Sanda, Sambo and there are others.
   Fighters like Fedor Emelianenko (the best MMA fighters in the world) uses mainly combat sambo and judo, disproving your “judo sucks” theory.
   There are other styles that have proven to be effective, like catch wrestling. Kasushi Sakuraba is a catch wrestler who humilliated the Gracie family, and earned the nickname “Gracie Hunter”, proving that wrestlers with submission knowlege can neutralize and dominate brazilian jiujitsu practitioners.
   Fighters have to be well-rounded in both striking in grappling, or else they don’t go far in the UFC (or any other MMA organization)

2. Ray H on October 31st, 2009 9:56 pm

   No one style has won in a long time. They are all using multiple styles now, hence the term mixed martial arts.

3. LeMat on October 31st, 2009 9:56 pm

   If the question is strictly which discipline wins *the most*, Frank’s got it right: wrestling. Specifically freestyle wrestling. The way judging is set up in the UFC, takedowns and octagon control dominate the scores in a ten-point ‘must’ system.
   (Translation: nothing helps you lay on top of a dude for 15 minutes quite like it, and since it denies your opponent the ability to showcase any of his skills, judges grudgingly give you the nod for takedowns and lay ‘n’ pray.)
   If you’re asking which discipline is the best, though, the unanimous results are in: all of them. There is no line between the arts anymore. Watch GSP’s last win over Matt Hughes — specifically the last combination.
   Right cross: boxing
   Plum and knee: muay thai
   Hip toss: judo
   Side control pin: freestyle wrestling
   Distal kimura threat to superior armbar: Brazilian jiu-jitsu
   —> All this in the space of ten seconds won him the interim Welterweight title.
   The best fighters don’t switch between one art and another. They integrate them all into a complete fight game.

4. Adam S on October 31st, 2009 9:56 pm

   In the begining of the UFC, BJJ won a lot of the titles. Now most of the fighters are cross training in many different styles that it is hard to tell what style each fighter has studied.

5. ? on October 31st, 2009 9:56 pm

   Goshin Jujutsu that my answer we combine striking,kicks,submissions,ground fighting,joint locks,We do it’s what I think on the U F C that all I see GJJ Is the only Martial Art that used all these tech……

6. RDF on October 31st, 2009 9:56 pm

   Another one of these questions? Look, It is not the discipline that fights, it’s the martial artist. So there is no such thing as BJJ winning this or Muay Thai winning that.
   A martial art only sucks as bad as the artist performing it.

7. Moo on October 31st, 2009 9:56 pm

   The most popular disciplines used are
   BJJ
   Muay Thai
   Boxing
   Wrestling (Even though there are many types of wrestling)

8. endo on October 31st, 2009 9:56 pm

   Don’t now for sure but it seems like there is a lot of combinations with BJJ or wrestling mixed with Muay Thai or kick boxing. Royce Gracie (BJJ) dominated in the beginning and changed the way most people looked at martial arts. After that champion wrestlers did well (like Mark Coleman many others). Now it has evolved into a mix of grappling combined with striking styles. It seems like everyone at the top is excellent at one discipline(either grappling or striking) and really, really, good at the other.

9. wompasto on October 31st, 2009 9:56 pm

   There really is no clear disciplines in martial arts anymore, everyone has a ground game, wrestling/judo, and a style of stand-up, no one trains one style anymore. If you think judo sucks go take a class with Dave Camarillo, you’ll be flying 6′ through the air in seconds and landing straight in an armbar.

10. That Guy on October 31st, 2009 9:56 pm

    you cant pick out a style because fighters use a variety of styles not just one
    judo only sucks if the person performing it sux at it look at a Karo Parisyan fight he is an excelent judoka who uses judo in MMA

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