When the style of BJJ narrowly defeated Savate in UFC1 it set off a chain reaction around the Martial arts world.
Suddenly, people were saying that striking skills were useless, BJJ schools started opening up on every street corner, and the masses all flocked like sheep.
The myth of BJJ's superiority was further supported when BJJ pulled out a narrow win over kickboxing in UFC2,
Parents were suddenly pulling their children out of strip mall Karate dojos, and paying twice as much to enroll them in strip mall BJJ schools. Many good and hard working Karate men went broke during this period and ended their lives with honor by committing Seppuku. All because of the BJJ myth.
Come UFC3 and we see the BJJ stylist beaten down and almost taken out of the tournament by an untrained brawler in Kimo, but the BJJ man somehow made it into the finals. The other man who made it to the finals was a man-monster in Harold Howard, a Karate and Ju-Jitsu world champion and a living mountain. When the BJJ fighter saw Howard standing in the cage, his corner quickly threw in the towel.
One man stepped up to fight the Mountain, that man was a Ninja, that man was Steve Jennum.
Jennum quickly took control of the fight, taking his much larger opponent down and submitting him with brutal strikes. Ninjitsu was the second style to win a UFC tournament, and in far more devastating fashion than any of the BJJ fighters victories.
When Jennum returned in UFC4 he was put against the toughest fighter in the hope that he'd be taken out of the tournament. A Mike Tyson clone named Melton Bowen, a boxing champion. Jennum made quick work of Bowen using text book Ancient Ninjitsu techniques to get the win.
So why now I ask you, do we not see Ninjitsu dojos on every corner, and every UFC fighther cross-training in Ninjitsu?
It is probably due to racism, but I prefer to believe that it is simply because most people are ignorant fools.
Suddenly, people were saying that striking skills were useless, BJJ schools started opening up on every street corner, and the masses all flocked like sheep.
The myth of BJJ's superiority was further supported when BJJ pulled out a narrow win over kickboxing in UFC2,
Parents were suddenly pulling their children out of strip mall Karate dojos, and paying twice as much to enroll them in strip mall BJJ schools. Many good and hard working Karate men went broke during this period and ended their lives with honor by committing Seppuku. All because of the BJJ myth.
Come UFC3 and we see the BJJ stylist beaten down and almost taken out of the tournament by an untrained brawler in Kimo, but the BJJ man somehow made it into the finals. The other man who made it to the finals was a man-monster in Harold Howard, a Karate and Ju-Jitsu world champion and a living mountain. When the BJJ fighter saw Howard standing in the cage, his corner quickly threw in the towel.
One man stepped up to fight the Mountain, that man was a Ninja, that man was Steve Jennum.
Jennum quickly took control of the fight, taking his much larger opponent down and submitting him with brutal strikes. Ninjitsu was the second style to win a UFC tournament, and in far more devastating fashion than any of the BJJ fighters victories.
When Jennum returned in UFC4 he was put against the toughest fighter in the hope that he'd be taken out of the tournament. A Mike Tyson clone named Melton Bowen, a boxing champion. Jennum made quick work of Bowen using text book Ancient Ninjitsu techniques to get the win.
So why now I ask you, do we not see Ninjitsu dojos on every corner, and every UFC fighther cross-training in Ninjitsu?
It is probably due to racism, but I prefer to believe that it is simply because most people are ignorant fools.
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