Formosa Neijia wrote:... the fight itself is a joke. In a straight boxing match the guy with a 30 lb weight advantage, what like 6 inch height advantage, and probably 3-4 inch reach advantage is going to dominate. It's not even a question.
The problem is size isn't supposed to matter, physical strength isn't supposed to matter, age isn't supposed to matter, speed isn't supposed to matter -- all that matters is qi, "internal strength," the "one inch punch," etc. And then when the qi hugger loses, it's all "well the other guy was bigger, stronger" blah, blah, blah. The hypocrisy is off the chart but I'm talking in general, not simply at the person who made this comment. Yoo talked a big game and didn't deliver the goods.
Looking around at the reactions to this, I notice how low the bar is set for TMA guys: "he didn't get killed so congrats to him." Yoo is typical of many TMAists in that he has zero combinations, didn't even try to fit his style to boxing gloves despite knowing those were the rules (backhands), and didn't adequately prepare likely because he doesn't respect modern training and he thinks his TMA is so deadly he doesn't need to. Poor showing by Yoo in every respect.
Sure in a no holds barred type event where there are more options to move the game into areas more likely to neutralize the size and age difference I can buy a more skilled but smaller fighter winning. Ufc 1 for a perfect example. In the straight boxing format there's just nowhere to go. It's just a question of who can box better.
So I guess what I'm saying is that this fight proves the bigger guy was a better boxer, full stop. Yoo's delusions notwithstanding.
Personally I believe there are two kinds of people, those that can admit their hypocrisy and those that are in denial of their hypocrisy. I'm training taijiquan so I can spend more time with my daughters (live longer and stronger), maybe fall back on the self defense if shit gets hairy, and have some fun with push hands, not to become a peerless boxer taking down MMA athletes with my hobby level fitness.
However good taijiquan or other traditional arts once were, they haven't evolved in the heat of combat for quite some time, and nothing is so good it's superior forever without adapting to a changing reality. Look to any given modern ufc for a perfect example.
Combat evolves, history is one long example of advances and responses to neutralize them. Weapons, armor, and even hand to hand. Without that finding out (testing), you're just fucking around (hypothesizing).