What are the key personal traits of a successful fighter?

Answer 1

Motivation, Aggression and Determination. Those are the Key Ingredients to any Success.

Answer 2

depends on what type of fighter you are talking about.

For a REAL fighter (soldier or someone in the armed forces or involved in a life-or death military type of conflict), then I would say a survival instict and ability to follow orders and achieve the goal no matter what that is. These must also be in the proper order and also add on others for different ranks or types. In a unit, it is to protect your other unit members. for a tactician or high ranking commander it is the ability to have a grasp of military tactics, use them and understand the enemy and decieve them. Also it is to properly allocate and learn to rely on intelligence reports- there are way too many other things to put here, someone can write a book on it.

For a prize-fighter it is the ability to not only win but to be marketable and take in good fights where the money is. In all honesty, while silvia might be able to hand roy jones jr. (in his prime) his ***, silvia is still a less successfull fighter because he makes less money. the ultimate goal is not to win in the ring, but to pay the bills. Winning in the ring is a side benefit and a means to an ends. What it takes to win in the ring is of course, skill, power, determination and desire (hunger for wins, the title, etc.). Case in point riddick bowe- how did he become the pastry puff after winning the title, he lacked discipline. Also depending on ability to do so the ability to read people and not get "star eyes" as look at what happened to tyson.

as far as the "street" or a random altercation it would be much the same as what it takes to win as a prize fighter, but the goal is to survive as relatively unhurt as possible not to "beat the other guy" although that is obviously one way to do it. Also to make sure you are on the "right" side that is not going to have any legal trouble. While use of the proper force to meet the proper situation is important, it is still secondary to the moment and simply getting out of whatever altercation you are in. This requires mostly intelligence and creativity as well as technique and power. speed is secondary to economy of movement. If a person is faster than the other guy, but the other guy has less distance to travel to "re-attack" or get back into position, then who is really quicker, the first guy may not be as fast, but doesn't have to waste so much speed and energy on getting to the position of the second guy in order to strike, thus making the second guy effectively "faster" than the first.

Answer 3

Very difficult question to answer. However I'll answer for general international fighters.

Lot of them are a loner. You can clearly see they doesn't really socialize or talk about go out and socialize expect for right before or after fight.

Most of them are at least somewhat above average intelligent (believe it or not many of them like to read and learn about stuff such as science, history, etc...). Also they're fast thinker. They have very good observant skill as well. Many of the top fighter also have college education (Chuck Liddell, Fedor, Kozo at his peak, Penn, Rampage, Mark Coleman, Dewey Cooper, Kosholvick etc...)

Lot of fighters are also very humble and easy going personality (Aerts, Fedor, Dewey Cooper, Kaoklai, Randy Couture, John Wayne Parr, Chuck Liddell, buakaw, etc...)

Pretty much all of them have great sense of humor and laugh easily.

Keep in mind this is only in huge great general, not all fighters are like that. This is the most common thing people notice in a successful fighter. There has been couple who doesn't fit in those category at all.

Answer 4

Heart or mental toughness is the most important characterisitic of any fighter. If you look as Ali who is so highly regarded it was his heart that made him so great. Obviously he had athleticism but heart kept him fighting when so many would have quit. He fought 3 brutal fights with Frazier that were amazing that he could generate the will to keep fighting. Imagine taking a ferocious punding, bigging physically drained beyonf imagination and still continuing mentally to fight. Every legendary fighter will reach a mental block, where it is so difficult to continue but somehow they force on reaching inside themselves to produce even greater will to continue.

It is the same with MMA fighters as boxers. Different style but when two great athletes with equal skills meet it is all about heart.

Answer 5

There are many details that make a fighter good.
But the most detrimental is heart. If a fighter does not have heart then they will not train hard. Hard training is the key to being a good fighter.

Answer 6

They believe in there abilities they never give up on there goal of becoming a successful fighter (or any other goal), are focused, have self confidence and they learn from there mistakes. They also surround themselves with winners. As they say "A winner never quits and a quitter never wins".

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Bullheadedness and a total disregard for the enemie's well being. you have to know how call out rage almost instantly and stay in control of it. take pleasure in the sound of someones nose crumbling on your knuckles... get sick and twisted! laugh at them and provoke- try to get your opponent to freak out on you. you have to learn to mirror agression, so i hope you can act. learn to project fear...

Answer 9

Street or Ring ?
Compassion

Answer 10

Quick, cool, explosive, determined, and SMART.