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First of all, 'Kung Fu' (literal translation : skill achieved through hard effort) isn't a martial art. What they mean is 'traditional Chinese martial arts'.
Secondly, while MMA stands for Mixed Martial Arts, it's more precisely the application of multiple martial arts for the specific purpose of defeating your opponent (either by KO or submission) under organizational (eg. One Championship, Ultimate Fighting Championship, etc) rules as a sport, not a life-or-death military or street combat.
Thirdly, the last couple of self-proclaimed traditional Chinese martial art grandmasters that were pummeled by Chinese MMA fighter Xu XiaoDong, are mere incompetent charlatans (also see https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fake+BJJ+exposed ) and are not actually competent Chinese martial art genuine masters, which do exist.
So such videos (popularized by Xu XiaoDong, who is really doing this for self-publicity), more to the point, are unmasking the martial art charlatans for their incompetence, rather than proving MMA > Traditional Martrial Arts, per se.
Nonetheless, it's bloody common sense that multiple martial arts > single martial art, duh! All MMA fighters need to be competent in multiple martial arts, at the very least a grappling martial art (usually Brazilian JuJitsu) and a striking martial art (usually Muay Thai).
Ceteris paribus, ie. with both the MMA guy and the traditional martial arts guy being equally competent, it's a no brainer the MMA guy has the advantage, ie. multiple martial arts > single martial art, duh!
In addition, the fact that professional MMA fighters have extensive experience in the ring against other fighters specializing in different martial arts (in contrast to most self-proclaimed traditional martial art grandmasters who mainly teach theory rather than actually fight), it's common sense that the vast majority of MMA fighters would beat the crap out of the vast majority of traditional martial art self-proclaimed grandmasters.
Alright, enjoy the video :
Secondly, while MMA stands for Mixed Martial Arts, it's more precisely the application of multiple martial arts for the specific purpose of defeating your opponent (either by KO or submission) under organizational (eg. One Championship, Ultimate Fighting Championship, etc) rules as a sport, not a life-or-death military or street combat.
Thirdly, the last couple of self-proclaimed traditional Chinese martial art grandmasters that were pummeled by Chinese MMA fighter Xu XiaoDong, are mere incompetent charlatans (also see https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fake+BJJ+exposed ) and are not actually competent Chinese martial art genuine masters, which do exist.
So such videos (popularized by Xu XiaoDong, who is really doing this for self-publicity), more to the point, are unmasking the martial art charlatans for their incompetence, rather than proving MMA > Traditional Martrial Arts, per se.
Nonetheless, it's bloody common sense that multiple martial arts > single martial art, duh! All MMA fighters need to be competent in multiple martial arts, at the very least a grappling martial art (usually Brazilian JuJitsu) and a striking martial art (usually Muay Thai).
Ceteris paribus, ie. with both the MMA guy and the traditional martial arts guy being equally competent, it's a no brainer the MMA guy has the advantage, ie. multiple martial arts > single martial art, duh!
In addition, the fact that professional MMA fighters have extensive experience in the ring against other fighters specializing in different martial arts (in contrast to most self-proclaimed traditional martial art grandmasters who mainly teach theory rather than actually fight), it's common sense that the vast majority of MMA fighters would beat the crap out of the vast majority of traditional martial art self-proclaimed grandmasters.
Alright, enjoy the video :