{"id":705,"date":"2019-07-12T23:10:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T04:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rollingaroundbjj.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2023-02-25T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:43:29","slug":"fights-end-up-on-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rollingaroundbjj.com\/fights-end-up-on-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"What Percent Of Fights End Up On The Ground?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fight<\/p>\n

We analyzed 383 street fights to better understand the claim that most fights end up on the ground.<\/p>\n

Specifically, we looked at:<\/p>\n

What percent of street flights end up on the ground?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do fights end up on the ground?<\/strong><\/p>\n

And:<\/p>\n

How good is BJJ for street fighting?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We uncovered some very interesting findings.<\/p>\n

And now it\u2019s time to share what we discovered.<\/p>\n

What percent of street fights end up on the ground?<\/h2>\n

First let\u2019s get on the same page. When talking about flights that end up on the ground this means:<\/p>\n

A fight where one or both people end up on the ground so that grappling would be useful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[It\u2019s important to clarify this definition… otherwise you could count people who\u2019ve been knocked out in a street fight that only involved punches]<\/p>\n

\"Berimbolo<\/p>\n

But it does include:<\/p>\n

One person on the ground in a position where grappling could be used on their standing opponent<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To analyse these fights we tried to avoid bias by simply using the term \u201cstreet fights\u201d or \u201cstreet fighting\u201d in YouTube. And let auto-play do its thing.<\/p>\n

\"YouTube<\/p>\n

[This way we didn\u2019t selectively choose videos like \u201cBJJ street fights<\/em>\u201d or \u201cstreet fight knockouts<\/em>\u201d]<\/p>\n

Based on this definition, 69 percent of the street fights we analyzed finished without ending up on the ground.<\/p>\n

That is:<\/p>\n

31 percent of street fights end up on the ground in a way that grappling would be useful<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"What<\/p>\n

And to be honest…<\/p>\n

The real number is even less:<\/p>\n

We still counted it when it was a group fight and just one of the fights ended up on the ground!<\/p>\n

\"Group<\/p>\n

Even in situations where people end up in a clinch-type situation, many flights still don\u2019t go to the ground.<\/p>\n

This is because either the fighters:<\/p>\n