In the early days of MMA, it was typically style versus style, which means a boxer against a jiu-jitsu fighter, or a Taekwondo fighter against a wrestler. Well, that has gone to the wayside and you must be completely well-rounded to be a champion in the current state of affairs.
That doesn’t mean that some fighters don’t have backgrounds in their original martial arts studies some have competed in those aspects of the game before stepping into the cage.
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