Rumor: Kimbo Slice Vs. Houston Alexander Could Happen At UFC 107

**Reavant** · 11-20-2009, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Gorgeous Dale Newstead

At the end of the day though GSP is a freak athlete. Give him a year straight just to train wrestling and see what happens... just sayin?

I mean think about it, BJ Penn won the bjj championship or whatever after just three years of training and his work ethic is well documented. Mind you wrestling and bjj are 2 different beasts, but he was still beating guys who'd done it much longer and more dedicated.

Well look at it this way... In BJJ, there are literally countless ways to end a match. One simple mistake, and you could get caught in one of millions of submissions out there. On top of just scorring points from positions and takedowns and all that.

In wrestling, there is only two ways to end a match early. One is to pin the shoulders of your opponent to the mat for justa split second. Now by the time your tryingto get into the olympics, youve trained your entire life to not expose your back to the mat, so it is real hard to do. The other way is to score so many more points on your opponent (6)that the ref calls a technical fall and stops just the round, which is again hard to do because when top competition meet eachother its hard to score one point on them, let alone 6 without them scoring on you.

Now lets look at BJ Penn in terms of jujitsu. He has flexability that makes him a one in a million competitor in BJJ because he can get into positions that no other BJJ practitioner would be able to get into, thus giving him a dramatic advantage. Especially because he can end fights when he gets into those positions.

Also the structure for competition is different for BJJ and wrestling. There is no belt class in wrestling, you are clessed by achievement. In BJJ you could beat black belt after black belt all while being a brown belt and if your instructor doesnt see you fit as a blackbelt then you stay brown belt, while again the reverse is also possible.

Now dont get me wrong, Im not saying wrestling is harder than BJJ because it is not any harder or easier, but it is dramatically different given the rules of competition and the way you ascend in class.