If I were in a real fight, I'd want to know all the mma I could. I mean come on, only to your advantage.
Of course. The more physical attributes and skills you possess, the greater your advantage. Never suggested different.
I'm perplexed by how everything I've said has been so twisted.
Training for combat sports with rules and weight divisions and paced rounds make athletes smaller and less strong. But the technique quotient becomes greater. In real-life combat, the attribute of technical skill comes in super handy.
However, the physical attributes of superior size and functional strength also advantage one in a real-life, no weapons, combat situation.
That most real fights happen on-the-fly and last for mere seconds, I think my points thus far are quite obvious.
Combat success is as much about being able to absorb punishment as it is about being able to dish it out. Street fights are a blitzkrieg, not a campaign of pacing, jab-jab and any notion of advisable take-down methodology.