Ya, what a joke! Where did I say Jones trained in Tai Chi, or that it was responsible for his success? I never even thought he studied it, and I doubt he ever did. That's you saying that, not me. I was simply showing a example of somebody who could avoid his opponents' punches and deliver his own without using a conventional boxer's cover up defense techniques. Jones was FAST and he had near perfect timing, so he was able to get away with it. Most boxers would get their head tore off doing that. BTW Jones would have creamed just about anybody in his weight class in his prime, in any discipline. That's just a fact.
And that old fart in the first video wasn't a Tai Chi guy anyway, he was (supposed to be) an Aikido guy. Didn't look like any Aikido I ever saw. He deluded himself (and his students) into believing that he could project his power through the air to knock them down or out. At no time did I ever fall for any of that magic chi BS that some proponents claim to use. If you ain't got your hands on the guy, he ain't going nowhere.
But thanks for the link to that UFC1 debacle. Way funnier than I remembered it. I could spend all day picking those tapes apart to show blows that never even came close to the mark, or landed on an arm, or an elbow, and yet the fight was stopped. These days, with the increasing use of boxing techniques, MMA is a much more serious sport, but back then it just looked like WWF to me. If you can seriously look at that garbage and tell me this was legitimate no-holds-barred fighting, well, what can I say? As our good friend Danny Diliberto says, "If you knew what you don't know, you wouldn't not know it." Lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na20FnxONQE
Anyway, have fun with your BJJ. Hope you never need to use it on the street against a real boxer.:grin:
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