Well the one with the gun would have won in a 'real' combat situation (what does that mean, anyway?) How is he going to score an icepick to the eye vs a baseball bat swing to the shoulder? While the latter is painful, it's a lot less debilitating than the former.
While I think there are many legitimate uses for an armor like this, and I'd love one to integrate into our training, building a spectator sport out of this isn't going to be one of them. What people like about the UFC is the same thing some people like about cycling over car races - it's not about getting from point A to B, but doing so purely using unleveraged physical abilities.
Still, cool tech.
But hey I didn't buy BTC 3 years ago either so what do I know.
Fuck off and go live in the united states of "i'm alright so who cares".
In a real combat situation, the people being struck would experience shock and degradation of fighting ability, which would have affected the points they'd go on to score. I would say this is more about who would have scored the most points in exactly this setting.
Without any details I'm going to assume this is all nonsense, but fun idea.
Well I guess you still have to resort to "real" violence when one party refuse to accept the results and start to bring guns to a tonfa fight.
I also don't really see what this has to do with MMA, which is AFAIK a mix of Muay Thai and Brazilian Jijitsu. On the other, you have plenty of traditional MA which either use weapons as part of training (eg, some kung fu schools) or are completely weapon-based (eg, kendo).
Currently the Muay Thai / BJJ combo is the most common and generally successful, but some winning MMA fighters have incorporated elements of styles as diverse as Tae Kwon Do, Western boxing, and even Capoeira.
I'm not sure MMA would be where it would come out but maybe.
The one thing is I think you can concentrate an lot more force by stabbing directly forward with a stick, putting your weight behind the blow, rather than the sideways swing the demonstrator did. I'd like to see what the armor would do against a blow strong enough to knock someone over.
"“UWM’s vision is to create a large-scale sport and entertainment experience where martial artists can compete against each other with real weapons, with an objective measure of who would have won in a real combat situation” UWM CEO David Pysden said."
