TKD in MMA

[Tez3]

I know there's been criticism of TKD recently saying, unfairly I think, that TKD is "only" a sport so I thought I'd post up a bit about a friend of mine who fights MMA in Bodog. Her striking art, and very effective it is too, is TKD, she is a feared striker! I know not everyone likes MMA but thought you'd still appreciate a fellow TKDer! That's her son Louis who is adorable! this is from the Bodog fighters site.

Rosi Sexton
Bodog Fight's top-ranked 125-pound fighter, Rosi Sexton has an impressive list of credentials.

Rosi Sexton is a fighter, a Ph. D. and a proud mom. (Bodog Nation File Photo)
In addition to her black belt in taekwondo, she also has a Ph. D. in theoretical computer science and is currently studying medicine at Oxford. As if that wasn’t enough, she still finds time to train twice a day for a career as a professional mixed martial arts fighter. Rosi's last win was in Costa Rica, where her opponent, Windy Tomomi, suffered a horrifying broken ankle and had to be emergency heli-lifted from the ring for surgery.

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

I know there's been criticism of TKD recently saying, unfairly I think, that TKD is "only" a sport so I thought I'd post up a bit about a friend of mine who fights MMA in Bodog. Her striking art, and very effective it is too, is TKD, she is a feared striker! I know not everyone likes MMA but thought you'd still appreciate a fellow TKDer! That's her son Louis who is adorable! this is from the Bodog fighters site.

Rosi Sexton
Bodog Fight's top-ranked 125-pound fighter, Rosi Sexton has an impressive list of credentials.

Rosi Sexton is a fighter, a Ph. D. and a proud mom. (Bodog Nation File Photo)
In addition to her black belt in taekwondo, she also has a Ph. D. in theoretical computer science and is currently studying medicine at Oxford. As if that wasn’t enough, she still finds time to train twice a day for a career as a professional mixed martial arts fighter. Rosi's last win was in Costa Rica, where her opponent, Windy Tomomi, suffered a horrifying broken ankle and had to be emergency heli-lifted from the ring for surgery.

Good for her and TKD has always been a powerful striking art! That was one nasty broken ankle and something that has nearly happened to me a couple of times when the foot get's trapped underneath on a takedown.

 

[terryl965]

Thank Tez like I have always said it is how you train in the art of TKD.

 

[Tez3]

Just found out that another Brit Mark Weir is fighting in the Bodog series, he has ( I think it still stands) the record for the fastest KO, that was in the first UFC in the UK and yes he's TKD too, He has amazing kicks, powerful and fast.
As I said MMA isn't everyone's cup of tea but it just goes to show doubters perhaps, how powerful TKD can be especially in a different arena..... (no I don't do TKD but I just love all MAs!)

 

[zDom]

I gotta say, Tez, that your attitude is refreshing.

I wish there were more MMA enthusiasts with an open mind like yours here in the U.S.

 

[Bumblebee]

Thanks for that. I know that in my MMA group there are maybe five of us that practice Taekwondo. I knocked someone out 13 seconds into the first round, so I don't listen to people talking about Taekwondo being just a sport.

 

[FieldDiscipline]

Thanks for posting that. Good to see.

I think the majority of people who have ever had cause to utilise Taekwondo will testify to its effectiveness. Again, as has been said a hundred times before its how you train.

Train hard, fight easy. Train easy, fight hard - and die.

 

[Tez3]

We have Ghurkhas here who train TKD as part of their military training, no one would ever tell them they do it as a sport!

In the UK most of us in MMA are from a TMA background, either karate,MT or TKD and have taken up BJJ to go with it in MMA. Wrestling isn't the big thing it is in the States so we don't tend to have such a hard and fast attitude towards traditional styles. There is of course still arguments between the two but then there's often arguments between karate styles.

 

[FieldDiscipline]

We have Ghurkhas here who train TKD as part of their military training, no one would ever tell them they do it as a sport!.

Funny, I've just said that in the karate forum!

 

[009abz]

tkd kicks are faster than any kicks in da world and they got a lot of power to so we have da best strongest tool on our body which is our most effective tool so the question should be how would other mma fighters go against tkd???????????????????



just putting this out their its also about how hard they train and how much they wanna win

 

[Traditionalist]

Problem with MMA and TKD is there isn't hardly any legit TKD martial artist in MMA. Heck there isn't hardly one person in MMA that I consider a real martial artist. They're all a hosh posh of this training camp or that 6 months of training with that BJJ club. If you put a true TKD practitioner in the ring with a MMA person I would bet on the TKD guy every time. It's hard to shoot it on someone who has superior kicks and can keep you at bay. Two example off hand are GSP knocking out Matt Hughes in their second fight and the second is Cung Lee. Right now his kicking is so superior that no one has been able to get past them to take him down, and he's not even TKD. Real martial artist don't go into MMA and that may explain why we see a lack of great TKD performances in the cage.

 

[foot2face]

...Cung Lee. Right now his kicking is so superior that no one has been able to get past them to take him down, and he's not even TKD.

Actually, Cung Le has a BB in TKD. They mentioned it in the MMA episode of Human Weapon.

 

[Dave Leverich]

Traditionalist, seriously, wow.

Anyway, yes I'd love to see more TKDers out there in the field but it's just one aspect of a multifaceted game that is MMA.

 

[Blindside]

Problem with MMA and TKD is there isn't hardly any legit TKD martial artist in MMA. Heck there isn't hardly one person in MMA that I consider a real martial artist. They're all a hosh posh of this training camp or that 6 months of training with that BJJ club. If you put a true TKD practitioner in the ring with a MMA person I would bet on the TKD guy every time. It's hard to shoot it on someone who has superior kicks and can keep you at bay.

Traditionalist, 1993 called, and it wants it's post back.

 

[TheOriginalName]

I just had to add a bit of my opinion in here:
I've been learning a MMA for the better past of the last year. One of my senior instructors has in the past done TKD. His kicks are the most lethal in our school. They are fast and powerful.
Combine this with the BBJ and Maui Thai (sorry if i got the spelling wrong there) and he is an amazing fighter.
So i think you'll see a lot more of the TKD style being applied to MMA as it is such an effective striking style.

But this is what i think is the great thing about MMA. It is it's own style and it's evolving at a rapid rate. This i think makes it really exciting to study.