Can a Ninjutsu expert participate in Mixed Martial Arts?

Question

Can a Ninjutsu expert participate in Mixed Martial Arts?

Answer 1

Hi there

This type of question comes up so many times.

Ok ask your self this why on earth would a bujutsu martial art thats over a thousand years old suddenly be turned into western sports floor wrestling?

Picture this a thousand years ago a ninja assassin putting on a triangular choke to take out a samurai lord followed by the mount!

Come on people use your brains!

If you want to learn MMA go learn that and stop trying to turn ninjutsu into western floor wrestling. Square pegs into round holes just dont go! There seems to be so many confused young people on here who seem to think martial arts are a cocktail of mix n match when it suits their ego or image?

Ninjutsu should be left at being what it is along with aikido and iaido. It wasnt created for sports fighting and should be left to be used as it was ment to be used! Everyone knows what styles work best in the UFC environment so if thats your bag then go train in those arts.

Its like trying to turn iaido into MMA by removing  the sword from the equasion?

Pointless school boy questions. Seriously I think its time to move on guys?

Best wishes

idai

Answer 2

Actually they have and still do to this very day. In the early days of the UFC they had two guys from Robert Bussey's Warrior International fight and Robert Bussey was awarded as a pioneer of reality martial arts by the Gracies. The guys from Bussey's camp are called Scott Morris and Steve Jennum. Jennum was the only decent one with being the only alternate to win a title in UFC history and losing a fight to former IFL coach Marco Ruas. The only one still doing it and openly saying his style of fighting is Ninjitsu is Hardee Merritt from Stephen Haye's To Shin Do Ninjitsu Dojo. There is an organization called SWAN that promotes and sponsors Ninjitsu fighters to fight in local MMA shows in the fighter's state as well as hosting their own MMA shows. Then if you want to promote yourself as a professional MMA fighter that uses Ninjitsu you got to do local MMA events to develop a descent fan base for the big promoters at the UFC's, WEC's, and Elite XC's level to even consider having you on their roster. The website a lot of up and coming MMA fighters use is MMA Recruiter.com because they post up and coming MMA events through out the US and have emergency fighter acceptance notifications on their website for fighters looking to make a quick name for themselves. Getting into MMA is hard only if you don't have the right sources to help get into the ring to prove your expertise and if you don't have the drive to. Especially if you're a traditional martial artist that doesn't usually train for MMA competition its going to be hard proving to them that you can really fight.

Answer 3

Yea, if they had training in mma.

They wouldn't be able to use there ninjutsu techniques although.