rener gracie vs taekwondo black belt challenge

Even though the year is 2006 and the UFC was created over 13 years ago, to show the world that brazilian jiu-jitsu is the best martial art for self defense, there are still some non-believers. On friday, september 8, 2006 a taekwondo black belt came in to see if brazilian jiu-jitsu is good enough for his wife to learn. He stated that he wanted to fight a Gracie to find out whether or not the art was any good. Rener stepped up to the plate and helped the taekwondo practitioner realize why brazilian jiu-jitsu is here to stay.

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• brazilian
• jiu
• jitsu
• gracie
• rener
• black
• belt
• taekwondo
• vs
• tae
• kwon
• do

[jscarpa2002]

Ok I have had about 5 responses to my comment now and I'm starting to get annoyed. I have seen good strikers first hand. Any one hear of Rick Roufus? Look him up I trained with the guy. I like the Gracies but this guy they had Renner with is a tomato can. A real fighter would at least try to hit him if he is a good striker.

[lsloewen2]

@sunshineEWD no, those attacks DO NOT happen often, and when they do they contain too many variables to really prepare for. Biting and "attacking the balls" are easy to say you can do, but with good Jiu Jitsu technique there is no one alive who can think in that type of pain. Trying dirty fighting tactics on a GJJ practicioner's is just increasing the likelihood that they DON'T LET YOU tap

[R3dTigerM40A3]

ofcourse in a grappling match the bjj win against any striking arts lol...

[tywainwright1]

@Sevv9220 Don't apollogize, you have clarified enough. I agree, there is trial and error,, older martial arts, such as TKD were the trial and the error, so we evolved in our martial arts and improved upon them. These newer systems are the result of this "trial and error" process. The future will most likely hold even more improvments, thus making TODAYS styles obsolete.

[Sevv9220]

@tywainwright1 There are only so many ways the human body can move and only so fast and powerful it can become. It's not the same case with guns where you can develop them to the point where they can destroy anything. All Martial Art styles, ALL OF THEM, have a science behind it. There's a trial and error. If they don't work now or didn't work then, they'd fade into history.

Maybe my first comment wasn't clear enough to relate to the topic. Looking back I should have added more. Sorry bout that

[DemonofAir]

I didn´t see a single kick...

[tywainwright1]

@Sevv9220 How so?

[tywainwright1]

@CruzinHardlyBrusin Jeet Kune Do isn't really an art rather than a combination of arts built on the philosophy of adding more arts to creaste your own personal mix. Therefore "Jeet Kune Do" + BJJ = Jeet Kune Do.

[tywainwright1]

@hondaciviccoupe10 Well in the first couple of UFC's when people would hit Royce he wouldn't hit them back and he would STILL win, Rener, unlike Royce, has some strinking background, so odds are it wouldn't have been very good for the TKD fighter.

[Sevv9220]

@tywainwright1 The human body has to change first in order for something like WIng Chun, Taekwondo, or Karate to become "obsolete"

[fiscusd]

I have all the respect in the world for BJJ, but the Gracie is a giant compared to this TKD black belt. Also I hear a lot of people saying that there is no "striking" in TKD, but we practice hand strikes, arm bars, wrist locks and many other techniques. I think a lot depends on the Master doing the teaching. My Master is a 7th degree black belt from Korea, cat quick, and extreme power. As with most Korean masters, he spent time in the military learning no rules fight to the death techniques.

[Debbers98]

@jscarpa2002 Tae-kwon-do isn't an art that focuses on striking it is true that we have a fair amount of striking moves but we mainly focus on kicking and I have to say that is what made me almost ill watching this because more or less the entire thing was fought on the ground.

To be fair I have only sparred with other Tae-Kwon-Do practitioners but this guy didn't apply any of his knowledge of the art to this particular match.