MMA Brawl

Muay Thai is the most complete stand up martial art involved in MMA. The Muay Thai is known as “The Art of the Eight Limbs”, it uses the hands, shins, elbows, and knees to execute extremely accurate and devastating strikes.

Muay Thai fighters use eight points of contact to demolish their opponents, in contrast to two points in boxing and four points in Kickboxing. The deadly clinch is a really effective technique for close range fighting and to avoid the short stance boxing problem against submission tries.

The clinch allows fighters to maximize on knee strikes to the body and elbow strikes to the head. Muay Thai is the less one dimensional martial art in contrast to boxing. All the aspects of the stand up game are covered and mastered with extreme power.

The Muay Thai was a war fighting style like the Ninja in Japan, the Wing Chun in China or the Military Close Combat in any army of the world.

Check out this really rough traditional Muay Thai demo were they fight with a sword and bare knuckle.

The competition aspect of it started later and carries a really strong spiritual and religious surrending in Thailand.

Fighters with strong base in Muay Thai only need to learn BJJ for ground fighting and wrestling to develop strength in order to be all around fighters in Mixed Martial Arts.

The hands technique are the same as Boxing, but they have the elbow strike for close distance fighting as an extra tool. Elbows are not as powerful as hooks or uppercuts, but they are responsible 90% of the time of the blood bath involved in MMA.

That’s why Pride Championship fights were less bloodier than UFC fights. Elbows being prohibited in the Japanese production.

Chute Boxe is a famous Brazilian MMA team that uses massively Muay Thai and BJJ to form their fighters. They produced an outstanding list of champions to compete in Pride Championship. When that organisation collapsed most of the fighters left Chute Boxe to go to US teams or to create their own team in order to compete in the US.

Some Chute Boxe Fighters:

Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, Jose “Pele” Landi, Murilo “Ninja” Rua, Nino “Elvis” Schembri, Daniel Acacio, Assuerio Silva, Thiago Silva, Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos, Fabricio Werdum…

… and best known fighters like the UFC champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva, and superstar Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva. They all started their MMA career in the famous Chute Boxe Academy.

The meanest fighter in a MMA ring! Talk about aggression!!!!

Possible Damages: They are many.

• Open skull with elbow strike in the clinch or ground and pound fighting
• Broken ribs from middle kick
• Broken legs from law kick
• inability to walk from leg kick to the inside of the leg
• and of course, knock out.