According to my opinion, judo is one of the strongest backgrounds for any MMA fighter. Of course - there are no kicks and punches in the judo training, but for the grappling and ground fighting judo can give you a great advantage. The necessity to learn the rest is very important, but we can see in the practice, that this concept just works - let's mention Fedor Emelianenko, Hidehiko Yoshida, Karo Parisyan or Yoshihiro Akiyama - these great mixed martial art warriors have a very sound judo ba...
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