r/judo • u/KasperTheSpoonyBard • Mar 28 '24

Judo x MMA Judo & BJJ in MMA

I’m curious, why did Judo not catch on in MMA like BJJ did? There are of course, lots of judokas who have competed, but while BJJ is accepted as being a major pillar of mma, Judo isn’t. Is it because the early BJJ guys were more involved in mixed rules fights and vale tudo?

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u/Janisurai_1 rokkyu Mar 29 '24

Imo Olympic judo is not that relevant to modern mma… maybe old school judo would have fared better