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Originally Posted by Kewpie Dan
interesting thought, can you explain a bit more?
are you talking about restarting when they fall out of the ring?
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The restart is a major factor, but I'm talkig more so in the sense that in a ring there are four places you can be pushed into and you can use the ropes to help roll you out of the corner where your back is to a rigid post. In the cage, you can be pushed into and held anywhere and grabbing it is forbidden, not to mention it gives a bit and traps you in even more. You need to learn how to push off of the cage and use wrestling to do it (judo and Sambo would suffice as well, but ot so much bjj). It's for that reason that if you put Randy Couture and Matt Hughes in a Pride ring they will be considered disappointments as well. That is also the reaons Rampage is so dominant in the UFC and was a perennial mid-carder in Pride. Shogun showed no cage work or wrestling at all, with a bigger stronger opponent like Forrrest Griffin, who is trained by the cage master Randy Couture, you realy need it.