Why Does Everyone Think the Clinch is Just the double collar tie?
I was inspired by this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=stAFwwGRvjM
But in Muay Thai and MMA circles people mostly refer to the double collar tie when they’re talking about the clinch, yet when you actually watch pros, that position is surprisingly rare unless one fighter is way more dominant than the other a la Rich Franklin vs Anderson Silva 1 or oldschool Thai fighters vs westerners/non-thais.
A common thing I’ll see in MMA convos is that people don’t use the clinch because it’s easy to break out of/they’ll get taken down or something. it honestly seems like a lot of fighters just aren’t super skilled in the clinch, though, since it works really well for guys who know what they’re doing. I know mighty mouse for example designed his later fighting style around the clinch because he noticed that MMA fighters were really uncomfortable in that range.