How come when ever people street fight?

They look like they suck a lot? Even if they are big, look at felony fights, they just SUCK. It's not like watching Randy the natural, or Chuck lidell, I never thought it'd be so hard for someone to simply Punch someone in the head, they flail around and miss like crazy.

How come when ever people street fight?
As a "trained" fighter who has competed at the highest level, I laugh when I hear people who have never trained a day in their life say they know how to fight. You cannot know how to fight by watching it on TV or by playing a video game, and you don't know how to fight just because you have been in some bar fights, schoolyard brawls, or street corner scuffles.





Why do professional fighters train so hard to prepare for a fight? Because that is what you have to do to truly be a fighter and to know what you are doing.





The reason street fighters miss so much is that they have their eyes closed. I am serious. They have their eyes closed and cannot see what they are swinging at. They also forget to breathe and that is partly why street fights seldom last longer than a minute. The other part is what was mentioned before - They don't train to fight, so they are not in shape to last very long.





Fighting is not easy. It takes a lot of hard and painful work to become a fighter. There is no short cut you can take to become a fighter like Couture or Lidell. It takes dedication, hard work, sacrifice, pain, suffering, heart, perseverance, drive, strong will, and pushing yourself to keep going when everything in you says I can't go another second.





Being a fighter is one of the toughest and least rewarding endeavors there is.





Fighting isn't for everyone, that's why God created Chess.
Reply:It is very much like hitting a baseball with a bat. It takes lots of practice.


It is a developed skill. Perfect practice makes for perfect execution.





People that have no training and feel they could easily jump in the octagon are sorely mistaken. These are the same couch athletes that watch football and say "I could do that."
Reply:The biggest thing is the pro fightes have been trained in fighting. Most people don't even know how to throw a decent punch without being trained. Street fights wind up being a lot of clutching and grabbing or some guys throwing big haymaker punches that don't connect. Your typical person doesn't know how shift his weight when throwing a punch or how to throw combination of punches rather than just one big haymaker.
Reply:Because like anything the street fights are not organized. These guys are just swinging to swing...now then you have underground street fights like Kimbo Slice that makes street fights look like a work of art....until he meets Mercer of course.
Reply:We are so used to seeing movie fights or professional fights that when we see normal people fighting it looks stupid.





Most people are not trained to fight. Even less are experienced fighters. It's one thing to throw a punch at a stationary object like a punching bag. It's another thing to punch someone who's moving around and is also trying to punch you. Even in boxing or martial arts fights where both opponents are using generally the same style, there are a lot of missed punches or kicks.





There's a lot to consider when you're fighting. You need to be in the correct range for whatever you want to do. If you're too far or close, you'll miss. You need to be balanced. If you swing a punch too hard %26amp; miss, you might fall over and look stupid. You need to aim properly, etc. If you want to know more, try to do some martial arts or boxing. You'll understand why people miss so much.
Reply:the truth of the matter is that 90% of people on the streets cant fight. plus as a martial artist we tend to avoid street fights since we feel that we dont have to prove anything to anyone. if everyone fought like Randy and Chuck then they would not be superior athletes and you wouldnt respect their game as much as you do.
Reply:Because people who train in martial arts have an outlet for their aggression - either by learning how to have enough discipline to control it, or by having an organized place where they can fight. No point in dirty street fighting (not that there really is a point anyway).
Reply:For on thing professional fighters don't get much into streetfitghts, the more you train and the better you get, the less you fight on the street, they just know better.





The idiots you see fighting don't have proper training, so they just swing, with no technique. Sometimes you see guys really kicking butt, and you can tell they know something, guys picking up their opponents and taking them down easily are wrestlters, guys with their hands up and throwing nice punches usually are boxers, guys who take the fight to the ground purposely and pull guard automatically and jiu-jitsu practicioners, I've never seen a streetfight with a muay thai practicioner, that would be very painful for his opponent. I saw a big guy taking on a smaller guy who happened to be an MMA fighter, the big guy got destroyed.





Streetfighting is a ticket to jai, fighters know this, and if you are skilled you can easily hurt, and even permanently disable a person, or kill him.
Reply:If you can't answer this one for yourself then you might have problems with 2+2.





Maybe you could hire nancy drew to figure it out.
Reply:Simple. Most people, even big tough people do not know how to fight. Even those who fight a lot don't generally pay any attention to what they are doing. That is part of why so many street fights end up on the ground, neither of the participants really know what they are doing. That does NOT mean that they can not be dangerous.
Reply:Ive been told this twice in my life when ever for instance you get into it in a bar remain calm most guys in bars smoke and drink all day so usually they scream holler and throw wildly so if the guy is not big or built unload a 2 piece in the center of his chest and he will go down most of the time when that happens to them they will stop and you really dont get hurt me and you both know when you get the wind knocked out of you you get scared
Reply:yeah, you need training for your attacks to hit and a lot more for the to hurt.





I know what you mean, I've seen total noobs with no training go at it and swing wildly, leaving lots of good openings that the other noob doesn't go for
Reply:Allow me to differentiate between UFC between street fighting.





The UFC has rules to govern what one may/may not do.


Street fighting does not.





UFC participants have trained and conditioned themselves for years.


The sum of Potatohead's "training" was back in high school when he bullied other kids.





The purpose of UFC is to win- within the established parameter of rules.


The purpose of a street fight is to win at any cost- even hurting or killing the other person.





UFC fighters train to fight in a very specific way. They don't do "streetfighting"! Yes, the UFC is more brutal than boxing matches or MA tournaments, but it's still a competition. There are still rules. And UFC fighters train to fight within thsoe rules.





Don't get me wrong- if a UFC guy got into a street fight, I would bet on him. He knows how to hurt people- badly. But most people (at least most people that are stupid enough to get into a street fight) have no such training and don't really care.





A fight is messy and unpredictable. Emotions and adrenaline run high, so it's a lot easier to miss and to mess up. And generally, anything goes.


That's why you won't see the average ****** fighting like what you see in the UFC.
Reply:I gues they thought the person didn't belong on their street. You can tell when someone not only does not have a passport or a green card, but he is an illegal.





Does he live anywhere? That is the question, and does he know he's there?