While the MMA fighter is going for side control, what's he planning to do about his attacker's 5 mates?
This is how a pub fight does down: you go to the gents, and a bunch of guys pile in after you. None of them can fight on a martial arts sense but it doesn't matter, there's no room anyway for fancy high kicks. They drag you to the floor and stomp on you 'til you stop moving. Then they go back into the bar, calmly finish their drinks, and quietly leave.
The true martial artist sense trouble brewing, phones a taxi to come right to the front door of the pub, and gets straight into it.
I have never seen gang street bar fights in my life. I've seen guys jump another to rob/intimidate one person, but they'd do that to anyone just randomly walking through their hood. That's not a street fight, that's criminal scum. Where are you that dudes are ganging up on one guy?
And, why is it always in hypotheticals that the trained guy is going to sit there doing katas and flowery BS belt presentation moves? I can't think of a martial art that doesn't practice (at one level or another) dirty, close-quarters, and stick-n-move fighting. You can always tell a skilled fighter vs drunken haymakers, which looks alot like this:
This is how a pub fight does down: you go to the gents, and a bunch of guys pile in after you. None of them can fight on a martial arts sense but it doesn't matter, there's no room anyway for fancy high kicks. They drag you to the floor and stomp on you 'til you stop moving. Then they go back into the bar, calmly finish their drinks, and quietly leave.
The true martial artist sense trouble brewing, phones a taxi to come right to the front door of the pub, and gets straight into it.