Let’s say you have a nerd sub wizard. He is a leg lock specialist and is a black belt level grappler who competes. Grappler is 135 and has never sparred or been punched in the face.
The street fighter has done some BJJ. He is a low level blue belt but got kicked out of class for being too agro, he picked up nerd grappler and slammed his way out of a triangle. He is a solid 155 and does CrossFit. He has had two dozen street fights and has won all of them.
The go to a bar and nerd grappler makes fun of street fighter for getting kicked out. Street fighter calls nerd out.
Street fighter is dirty, he has no regard for others or his own body, if you get an arm you have to break it because he will be rampage slamming.
Depends obviously and anything can happen in a fight but I favor the nerdy kid. Competition in bjj is at least understanding of how to manage stress in a dynamic situation with someone trying to win. If you compete as a bb you have done it for a long time against good athletes trying to win and had some level of success. A typical black belt is high level most tough guys can’t deal with. By then you should be able to execute takedowns effectively and force positions. Being a shitty blue belt may actually be a disadvantage here because the bb would know what the trained response likely would be. A bb should be wise enough to understand that positional control and a basic, strategic game is the key to victory.
Street fighter easily wins. He’s 24-0 in street fights lol? Versus a guy that’s never been hit in the face. Anyone that picked the bjj guy has also never been hit in the face.
I’ve been hit in the face plenty and boxed as an amateur for several years. Boxing is awesome but we aren’t even talking about a boxer, we’re talking about a street fighter. Bro beating up dorks in the street isn’t the same as beating a competition level bjj black belt. Are you serious? The first time I ever experienced rolling with a real bjj black belt was at a club we put together at a local university mat room. I was a very in-shape, successful local -regional level amateur boxer with more than a handful of fights. I had seen plenty of martial artists to think most of them were a joke. But I did like the ufc and I wanted to cross train. Back then we watched UFCs and copied the more or used print outs from grappling magazine or the fighters notebook. This was so early on, a kid in our group had a sheet of paper with every North American black belt list on it. One of them happened to own a bjj academy and taught a class at the college. One of the kids was in his class and invited the professor to join us. He came and asked me if I wanted to roll. I had a been fairly successful using my size and strength and the little bit of judo I learned as a kid against most people in our our open mat sessions. I was a lot bigger and stronger than this guy and he basically handled me like I was a child. He tapped me about 5-6 times easily and I knew then I had to learn bjj. A legitimate black belt is another level of understanding.
