Who wins this?

Question

Three men. Same height, weight. Same amount of training, fighting experience. One Muay thai, one BJJ, one Tae Kwon do.

Who wins in a fight?

Answer 1

A three way fight? Not sure what you mean but let's look at each individual fight.

BJJ vs. TKD: This match has been put on a few dozen times, most of the time you take a grappler against a striker and the grappler is going to win. Not sure about "fighting experience" as a TKD who has had actual fights, and not just TKD point sparring competitions might have added some take down defense. However stylistically, TKD works from the outside, if you get inside and take them down, they have a hard time. BJJ likes to get in and take people down. I see a BJJ guy winning by submission.

Muay Thai vs. TKD: Again, MT is a sport martial art that allows itself to utilize every technique in competition, it is made for fighting. TKD competition is mostly no head contact point sparring, and utilizes a stance that a Thai Boxer would eat up. You side stance a MT guy and you might lose your leg heh. Take for account that a Thai boxer has better tools inside, they constantly work from the clinch using knees and elbows. In fact that is a large part of Thai fighting. I see a MT guy tying a TKD guy up, and brutalizing him with knees and elbows.
Winner: Muay Thai by blood bath or K.O.

Muay Thai vs. BJJ: This is another classic striker vs. grappler. However Thai boxers at least are used to in close fighting, which gives them a better striking advantage, they can kick on the outside, punch closer, and then knee and elbow even closer. Of the two a Muay Thai fighter has a better chance of catching the BJJ guy with a solid strike. Even when he is on the ground the Thai boxer still has some solid elbows. But however, let's look at the classic match up in a no holds barred competition for our answer. Orlando Weit vs. Remco Parduel. Though Remco outweighed Weit it is still a solid show of what a grappler would do to a Thai boxer. And Orland Weit is a helluva Muay Thai guy. He was thrown, taken down, and knocked out on the mat in about one minute. So I would have to go with the age old, striker vs. grappler, Grappler wins.
So in this one, I would say the BJJ beats the Muay Thai kickboxer, however the MT at least has a strikers chance of catching the BJJ guy, far more than the TKD guy does.

So I guess at the end of our 3 man tourney the BJJ guy would come out on top, simply because he is a grappler and his style utilizes a weakness against strikers, which is comfortability on the ground.

Answer 2

Without a doubt the man with the BJJ skills. Once he gets the other fighter to the ground, which he would unquestionably be able to do if the other fighters are only trained in their martial arts, then the fight is over in a matter of seconds. Muy Thai and TKD do not train in take-down defense. If you want proof that the BJJ fighter would win just look at who won the first 3 UFCs.

p.s. Gracie was fighting guys that were a lot bigger and stronger than him, too. No one even thought about training in BJJ until Royce came along, now every MMA fighter in the world trains in it.

Answer 3

It's not the Martial Arts Discipline that matters (i'm sounding like a cheap CD here), and it has nothing to do with the height, weight, fighting experience or training in one single discipline, because each SINGLE discipline has it's strengths and weaknesses. The frequency of their training has some factor in it, but because you only singly listed one discipline per person, it comes down to who has the better strategy to win.

if you had said that any one of the individual has trained in more than one discipline and uses the best of both disciplines he's learned, it will work more toward his favor.

But because there IS NOT ONE SINGLE martial arts discipline out there that is better than another. it is up to the individual with the best stategy

the better fighter will have a good strategy (preferably have training in more than one Martial art, one type of "Standing game" like Tae Kwon Do or Muay Thai that works well while the fighter is on his feet, and one "Ground game" like Brazilian Jujitsu, if the fight goes to the ground) and will capitalize on the other two fighters' weaknesses to win instead.

Answer 4

BJJ for sure.
Anyway if the Thai fighter use Muay Boran not Muay Thai. I can't predict the result. Muay Boran is the martial art used in war. It is similar to mixed martial art.
Muay Thai is the descendant of Muay Boran. Muay Thai was developed to be a sport, so some dangerous techniques in Muay Boran were forbidden in Muay Thai.

Answer 5

The one that walks away while the other two fight is the clear winner. He will not receive any injury. That is a victory by my standards.
Remember when two tigers clash, one will die and one will be wounded for life.

However, if they were forced to fight I would want to know more factors before placing a large bet. Where are they fighting, what are their limb measurements, what are the equal levels of training ( One week, one year, one decade??), what are their builds, where is each one from, what are they wearing, is it to the death, is a sporting event, are their any rules, are they fighting all at once or one at a time. There are just too many factors to answer this correctly. This "who would win" question will only draw out opinions and draw lines in the sand between practitioners.
But if someone could arrange this fight I would want to see it.

Answer 6

BJJ has dominated the mixed martial arts world for several decades now. Take for example the Gracie family who in the early 90's stormed into the MMA world and destroyed every type of martial arts style until fighters began to move away from ONE specialized technique.

Now everyone in the mixed martial art business has BJJ on their resume along with other fighting styles, cause if they didn't they would be taken down and submitted in a matter of minutes.

This answer refers to the question as if the 3 men where all experts in their martial arts field. If their equal "fighting experience" is that they are all beginners then I would have to go with May Thai. If you can't defend those elbows and knees...FORGET ABOUT IT!

Answer 7

under tournament rules, ie no eye gouging or groin attacks, I think the BJJ would eventually come out on top.

In a street fight, it would be who ever is the most vicious. Sure the BJJ guy will try to take it to the ground, but what's to prevent the other guys from gouging his eyes out, ripping his ball off etc.

Hard to say what would happen in the streets. I have a lot of respect for BJJ after all the MMA bouts I've watched, but I know in a life or death situation, I will grab, bite, kick, punch what ever I have that is available to me.

Answer 8

hey wait a minute why's it gotta be men? I'm a female Muay Thai kickboxer!!!O' okay how bout the one that's a the best fighter,it doesn't matter about everything being the same,it matters when faced with the circumstances that you listed who has the most stamina so they don't gas out and who has the most determination,and a lucky punch and kick never hurts(well except the one who gets it)

Answer 9

If it goes to the ground the bjj guy will submit both of them. If it remains standing up the Mauy Thai fighter will beat both of them.

Answer 10

bjj. every top mma fighter trains in bjj even if it's not their primary fighting style. the gracies dominated early mma fights only after other fighters started training in that style did they surpass the gracies.