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Originally Posted by sharmpitz
I am not a wrestler or Judo practitioner. To me both look preety effective at bringing down your opponent. To me this is what the BJJ guys are missing. I canīt stand when in a fight a guy jumps guard on a guy while standing, or sits there asking the guy to come into his guard. Nowadays almost everybody has a good sprawl, so more often then not you gotta figure another way to get your opponent down. The throws are really pretty when executed by a true pro, but what I seem to notice that wotks the best (Fedor, Yoshida) are the sweeps from in close. They are really hard to defend against guys with good balance. Where Judo is better than wrestling I think is in the subs. But to me wrestlers seem to have better ground control and work better on the ground. Like I said I am not a practitioner so I just might be full of shit. Thought I would save some of you the time by saying it myself
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Coming from someone who has a strong background in both (wrestling scholarship, Judo Brown Belt) I would say you pretty much hit the nail on the head. Wrestling is all about control. The whole point of 'pinning' your opponent is to demonstrate that you have complete control of them. That is the objective of the sport. So wrestling is important in MMA because control is important. Obviously wrestlers are also good at takedowns, because you have to take your opponent down to control them. Judo is more about submitting your opponent, and Judo focuses more than any other sport at throwing your opponent to the ground. Like I said, you pretty much hit the nail on the head.
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