The Best Representatives For Individual Martial Arts In MMA. Karate, Boxing, Judo, Wrestling & More! 

Guys I made a big mistake at 17:13 where I’m speaking about isreal Adesanya but because I edited out the part where I say his name, it makes it seem like I’m talking about pereira. I was saying that “the reason I don’t have isreal Adesanya as my kickboxing representative is because… etc” I hate that there was a bad edit on my part my bad

Ignoring Machida when discussing Karate is criminal man.

You missed out on Anthonty Smith..he is master of all individual skill sets,its just that it wasnt his night..he just didnt show up.

We can’t forget CM Punk. He nearly mastered all of MMA, second only to those in this video

While Khabib Judo was probably one of the best we've ever seen, it's often a mix of wrestling, borrowed skillsets from other discipline. I personally think Ronda Rousey's Judo was lot more in line with pure Judo that one would. Kayla Harrison probably has a better argument as well.

A lot of people dont realize McGregor, GSP, Machida and many other greats are karate based fighters and have had so much success it's so under rated due to traditional karate but new school karate such as what machida teaches is very great to learn

GSP’s single leg and double leg are just so satisfying to watch. So simple, yet effective and beautiful

Brunson for boxing and wrestling imo. GOAT of underwater MMA

Alexander Volkanovski was also a semi-professional rugby player before he went into MMA at 22. The physical conditioning for rugby is fucking insane.

In karate, there’s a distinction between traditional karate and the karate that is portrayed in america, which is a lot about breaking boards. Not disregarding your choice, but if we go with traditional karate (I’ll use the shotokan style as guideline) I’d suggest Lioto Machida

I’d say Ronda for Judo and Khabib for Sambo

Petr Yan is one of the most amazing strikers to watch, his well roundedness, incredible ring IQ and adjustments. A true killer. It sucks seeing him be robbed like that

Khabib did Sambo which is really similar to judo but also his style was mostly just wrestling too.

Wonder boys sidestep punch against masvidal was a thing of beauty. Such an incredible fighter.

I was expecting you to say Alex Pereira, but I agree with picking Volk 100%. His style honestly looks like a sharper, more efficient version of Izzy's.

Most people forget about Karo Parisiyan, dude only had judo and it was flawless and marvellous to watch

Oliveira's jiu-jitsu is amazing but I think his offense heavily outweighs his defense. From a defensive grappling perspective he often puts himself in bad positions that get him finished whereas other guys like Burns don't do that as much.

I personally think Ronda is the best representative of pure judo in MMA. To the point that the moment she turned away from it she got beaten up.

Taekwondo - Yair Ushu Sanda - Zabit Kungfu - Salikhov

I absolutely love all the fighters talked about in this video for all of the reasons given. They are all technical masters of their respective arts and are beautiful to watch in action. What each and every one of them has achieved is not only impressive, but will go down in history. It’s so refreshing to see videos talking about technique and styles and analyzing what the fighters are actually doing in the ring opposed to all of the constant drama, hype, bashing and negativity that I see everywhere in the fan base of MMA these days.

Why not Machida for karate? He uses a more traditional karate style, wonderboy has that kinda american taekwondo/karate fusion style with the more bladed stance and fancy kicks.

Good point about Khabib's judo. I just realized that. I remember Poirier talking about Khabib not being as "strong" as he expected, but that he's so slick. To my layman eyes, this made him different to other sambo wrestlers like Islam.

Gsp is the greatest mixed martial artist ever you can tell his wrestling is so good, so inspirational just the goat

For judo I would honestly say Fedor is the best representation because he developed a striking strategy that would perfectly set up his opponents for a sweep or takedown by causing them to close up and then he would just dominate the whole damn promotion

These larger topic videos is where you really shine. Excellent video my man

Interesting fact: GSP himself said he thinks khabib's pure wrestling is superior to his own and it's his ability to mix the martial arts and set up shots with strikes that lead to his success over pure technical ability in wrestling. He truly personifies what it means to be a mixed martial artist and use all the tools in his arsenal.

love the content! thanks for helping grow my favorite sport!

Love this video. Very important to understand that how to implement a martial art for MMA.

why is homeboy burns catching strays man? let the man alone, hes phenomenal.

GSP was an incredible athlete, all around martial artist. Randy Couture is best example of someone using wrestling to achieve success in UFC. He beat juiced up Belfort twice using wrestling.

For someone who's been out of mma for a few years, this video is a gold mine.

Hype to watch this🔥

GSP was so good at wrestling, that he angered a majority of the UFC fanbase at the time. I remember hearing SO MANY people hating on GSP for just “laying on people” for 5 rounds 😂

Great Video Man

Great breakdown, sound analysis 💯

Now we need a video of the best and most well-rounded MMA fighters

Yoooo 10/10 vid Good Mma ytbers are hard to find but you my friend put out a perfect mix of content that is well thought out and entertaining. You and Mexican martial arts do it right even though he stopped uploading 😭

It blows my mind how Islam Makhachev was able to make Charles Oliviera tap to an arm triangle in the second round

Interesting video. I'm on board with most picks. Keep it up!

Love the music you picked

Such a great video. I’ve been a subscriber for a couple months now, and the quality of your videos have been going way up recently. Great work man

Karo Parisiyan deserves to be the Judo rep, his Judo ability was so elite that he was the only reason Judo was an individual fighting style in UFC Undisputed.

Great stuff want more of those

Excellent picks.

Lyoto Machida is the best representation of Karate

Need a part 2 with taekwondo, wing chun, muay thai, greco-roman, capoeira, jeet kune do, sambo and aikido

Fantastic video, man. Well written with excellent production value. Really enjoyed it.

Great video ! I was into it right up until the end. Subscribed

Please make more of these I'm all for the long form mma videos even career breakdowns and stuff like that I could listen to a fellow mma guy talk about the sport for hours

writing this before watching the video : Karate : Lyoto Machida, Stephen Thompson Taekwondo : Anthony Pettis, Benson Henderson Boxing : Conor McGregor, Dustin Poirier, Diaz Brothers, Masvidal Boxing but more of Brawling / Brute Power : Ngannou, Derrick Lewis BJJ : Charles Oliveira, Ortega, Jacare Souza, Gracies Judo : Ronda Rousey Wrestling : Daniel Cormier, Couture Sambo : Khabib, Fedor Kickboxing : Mirko Cro Cop, Overeem, Mark Hunt, Adesanya, Alex Pereira Muay Thai : Jose Aldo, Donald Cerrone, Shogun Rua MMA (Complete) : Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, GSP, Tony Ferguson, Demetrious Johnson

Phenomenal video

been waiting for this vid

GSP is the goat that doesn't think much of himself and his achievements that much. He just proved himself, won his fights and was a phenomenal person and athlete all around. Even Khabib's father explicitly stated that GSP was his all time favorite fighter to watch.

8:40 Charles still the best grappler in UFC folks. Islam had to hurt Charles to sub him.

Dude, your content is the bomb!

awesome video...your passion shows and it's GREAT! subbed.

Would love to see it for Sambo, Taekwondo, Muay Thai and maybe even some style of Kung Fu (Wing Chun..)?

Bro the disrespect of adesanya is insane. The nutt riding of ap is crazy. Izzys title run was flawless.

Awesome video dude!

Why people tend to ignore Demian Maia when they talk about the best jiu-jitsu artist in MMA? Even Oliveira himself said that Maia is the best at Jiu-jitsu in MMA.

I also think kyokushin Karate in terms of a singular style of Karate that is MMA ready with minimal tweakage is a complete striking discipline. The punching is strictly body shots, and they are masterful body punches because of it. But, they also are phenomenal at straight punches as well as alternatives to traditional "circular" punching from boxing (hooks/uppercuts) with more arching longer range variations of said punches. That being said, the application of straight punches and long arch punches to the face and head is seamless. They also have Leg kicks. It's a style of fighting that's like fighting in a phone booth, but they also have in and out tactics as well. Known for having a squared stance, but also uses a bladed stance at times. Known for a high guard for kicking defense and using elbows to block body shots. The most hard and diverse striking discipline. MMA Kyokushin Black Belts: Georges Rush St Pierre Bas Rutten Uriah Hall Just to name a few. I've always wanted to see someone with a black belt in both Kyokushin and Judo in MMA, as both styles originate from Japan and would create a well rounded fighter.

documentary level production and editing, good shit bro

I love these types of videos lucas

Volkanovski does have pre MMA wrestling experience. And he was apparently pretty good at it like everything else lol

I think of Rhonda when it comes to Judo. I mean her whole game was Judo based and she was in the Olympics for it. Judo made up for her horrible striking

Great video. Keep it up!!

Very good video wonder boy is such a joy to watch his kicks are a beauty to watch

Yeah but if you take away all their skill sets and look at them individually, Anthony Smith is the best

I'd argue that Jose Aldo is a better representative of kickboxing in MMA. His striking style is more reminiscent of traditional Dutch Kickboxing techniques and that combined with his legendary anti-wrestling represented a better display of kickboxing in an MMA context skill-for-skill. I think this is further illustrated by the fact that Islam Mackachev's takedown threat gave him more success on the feet versus an exceptionally better striker in Alexander Volkanovski whereas Aldo's striking didn't lose its efficacy against wrestleboxers.

You should do another one of these videos but with other fighters :) this was amazing

Great content my guy keep it up !

I think the most complete has to be Demetrious Johnson

Wow the kick boxing section aged poorly 😂

Great video man👏🏽

Great analysis. Neat video

i thought Tompson was 57-0 in kickboxing

Muay Thai and Kickboxing are very different. In Muay thai, you have the threat of sweeps and throw. Rafael Fiziev would be the best Muay Thai representative IMO

Great video!

Excellent video

I honestly think you should’ve put Rafael Fiziev in the kickboxing/Muay Thai category, or at least an honorable mention. The dude has some of the cleanest and most vicious striking in mma history, but I understand putting volk as #1.

17:14 Ahh you one of those Izzy haters...clueless

Awesome vid man

Combat Sambo - Fedor

You missed Wushu Sanda to which I'd say would be Zabit Magomedshapirov or Zhang Wei Li

Amazing video

Alex was actually a boxer before he became a kickboxer. When he transitioned from boxing to kickboxing professionally he was called out by all his competition saying that he was just a boxer, and proceeded to knock all of them out.

Love the Judo 🥋 respect

This vid is 🔥🔥🔥

Nice video i love it.

ken shamrock for wrestling and lyoto machida for karate for sure. ken shamrock reached the heights of mma with wrestling, something no other wrestler has done.

So izzy isn't the best kick boxer because he slipped for a second against periera, but volk is even though Islam was really competitive on the feet with him. And Charly olives is the best bjj even though he get got choked out by Islam. You got my head spinning

Great vid

With judo: We actually see a ton of techniques used effectively in mma, people just don't have an eye for it. all these foot sweeps, tai o toshi, harai goshi or I even saw ippon seio nage are all techniques that are very common in mma (except for ippon seio nage) and are techniques typically seen in judo. Besides these throws. Where do you think do these bjj practicioners got their techniques from? Like hadaka jime (rear naked choke), sankaku jime (triangle choke but in Judo usually not used in the same position as we usually see in mma competitions), ude garami/gyaku ude garami (kimura) etc. When these fighters pull out a technique like that, did they do bjj or rather judo? Or maybe neither, maybe it was Japanese Jiu Jitsu all along or Luta Livre etc.... I mean, no one had a gi on so it was probably luta livre or maybe CCAC....right?? My point is there are many judo techniques used in a mma setting but people usually classify them as something else...usually bjj technique.

I disagree with many of these but good video. George wasn't better than DC and volk isn't better skilled than izzy

Great video

amazing video, i subbed.

Man, you're definitely gonna hit at least 100k subs this year But man, you didn't read everything I said in the livestream 😭 I was trynna say that the MMA greats of our time and their flaws remind me of boxers like Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, Muhammad Ali, and even Sam Langford (even if barely anyone knows him) Because their legacies are similar in the way that they were very ahead of their time despite not being perfect, they still revolutionized their sport to where it is today. Anyway peace, don't want any problems, just a lil ramble 😂

great vid

Lyoto Machida for Karate imho... achieved more than Wonderbread

Volkanovski definitely didn't *dominate* Islam on the feet