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Originally Posted by alnorth
I've seen a ton of fights between elite top-5 contender level strikers vs terrible overmatched grapplers who will never land the takedown they need. In every one of those fights, unless its a 30-second KO, the bad grappler AT LEAST gets a couple clinches each round from his efforts.
Of course, an MMA striker knows how to defend the takedown in a clinch so its no big deal, and he can get back to punching his opponent to death, but if Floyd is completely untrained in grappling, he's going down, and his jab is not going to KO Rousey before they clinch.
It really is not difficult to clinch. It just isn't.
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I don't need MMA striker vs. MMA grappler match ups explained to me. I've watched a shit ton of MMA for years, likely far more than you.
But we're not talking about an elite male MMA grappler against an elite male MMA striker.
We're talking about Ronda Rousey vs. Floyd Mayweather. She's going to be much slower, much weaker, and totally unprepared to defend herself from his level of elite striking while she magically reaches for this clinch you're claiming she'll find.
One punch may not knock her out, but it certainly is going to send her reeling.
You want to go on and on about how he's never had to defend a takedown, but want to totally dismiss the fact that the strikers she's faced likely have 5% (and that's likely being generous) of the technical ability and accuracy in striking that a world class boxer like Mayweather has. He's going to hit her on the way in, and she won't be prepared to handle it.