Who would be a better fighter?

Question

Who would be a better fighter: a person who is athletic and goes through martial arts training but doesn't have any experience on the streets or tough situations or a person who is naturally tough and might have street experience but doesn't have martial arts training and may not be in decent shape? Serious answers please.

Answer 1

obviously the person who's going through training.. as an individual who grew up with whereTae Kwon Do was started, I knew friends who knew the martial arts but never used it unless to protect themselves because it could kill the person whoever's fighting them. They dont need to fight 15-20 min or be as violent as the street fighters because they know the spots and and hits that can pretty much kill you.

Answer 2

I think Tank Abbot proved that a street fighter can be very effective. However, he has also proven at the same time that they have recently become very ineffective. What you have to realize is that martial arts training incorporates real fighting (with limits), sparing and lots of focused training with a cause. To be dangerous. So personally, if you put someone like Mirko Filipovic up against Tank Abbot i think you'd one bloody fat guy with a Gotee.

The real question here is not 1 fight between the 2 comparisons but who would have the most success and "be the better fighter" as a whole through numerous fights. Everyone has losses so 1 fight can never determine a fighter. If someone were to say Mirko and any street fighter went up against the same 10 fighters over their career who would have the most wins of the 10? I'd say Mirko hands down or any other trained technical athletic fighter for that matter not just mirko. If street fighters were all that effective you'd see them in MMA today. You don't need a 'black belt' to fight in MMA. Just balls.

Answer 3

There are too many variables here. It'd also depend on the martial art that ther first person is taking, if they have full contact sparring (muay thai, kyokushen karate), or maybe one that enphasizes in grappling (jiu-jitsu,wrestling) then the first person might have the edge if the fight goes for a good while. The second person sounds like would have the edge overall, because of experience, and martial arts training (unless you train full contact sparring) doesn't teach you how to react when you get a broken nose or rib

edge: the street fighter, if the martial artist is used to full contact sparring, then the martial artist.

Answer 4

Most street fights last less than a couple of minutes. From my experience, a lot of fights are between someone who can fight, and between someone who THINKS they can fight.
I'm not knocking martial arts training, I have a black belt in Judo and in Goju Ryu Karate, but I also have plenty of street fighting/bar fighting experience where I have learned to apply the techniques of my martial arts training and make it effective. If a person has no street fighting experience, the first time they get hit may be a real shocker to them. The first time they hit someone and that person doesn't go down may be a real shocker to them.
Fighting is as much a mental game as it is a physical game, and if things don't go your way in the first few seconds, a lot of non experienced fighters suddenly loose all desire to scrap, and it doesn't take long after that for them to be beaten.

Answer 5

Who Ever was willing to DIE
It is hard to perfectly dfend from a person whom wishs to DIE
Some street fighters have no life, and in so are willing to go all the way in a way a martial artist has never seen
I help in many Gang areas, and well I could care less how good you are, you will die. Martial Arts and Street Survival are not the same, Gun Fu rules.

Answer 6

The street fighter with the experience would win because experience wins in the end.

Answer 7

street fighter... hands down.
unorthodox. . .dirty fighting. . .some (if not most) martial artists are trained without the versatility of a street fight. but it is getting better as concepts in fighting are getting broader and people have more open minds.

Answer 8

streetfighters have no stamina, no skill, no accuracy! any skilled counter puncher can take them out! Just look what happened to fighters like Tank Abbott once fighters developed true skill in mixed martial arts...he sucks!

Answer 9

For the first 30 seconds or so it may go either way, but after that the one in the best condition will always prevail.

Answer 10

the street fighter.

He won't follow rules, he knows what it feels like to hit and be hit, and he's not scared of confrontation.

this is why EVERY martial arts programs should include full-contact, full-speed sparring.