Suggestion for breakdown of Fighter/Company/Regional Styles

[SirFozzie]

Like the style of fighters/federations in TEW, you can probably do pretty good breakdown of fighter types, as well as promotion types. Fighter Styles ( a Lot from the early days of UFC) Wild Puncher (Tank Abbot, Kimo, Cabbage Correira, Bob Sapp), folks who throw nothing but bombs. If one HITS, mind you, DOOOOOOM.. Tire quickly, however) Striker (Pat Smith): someone who have trained in one of the striking disciplines (such as Boxing/Kickboxing/Muay Thai), prefers to keep the fight standing (usually to cover for lack of Ground Skills). There would be a lot of K-1 Style fighters involved Wrestler (Dan Severn/Ken Shamrock): Someone who's trained more as a wrestler then as a standup fighter. Good at getting the fight to the ground and improving position, not so much for actual finishing Ground n Pound (Mark "The Hammer" Coleman, in modern times: Matt Hughes, Tito Ortiz): Someone whose preferred method of fighting is to take the opponent down, and get position to rain down bunches of punches. Submission Fighter (The Gracie Family, etcetera), Someone who primarily takes opponents down and will do gradual damage to setup submission attempts. All-Arounder (Randy Couture): SOmeone who can finish fights standing or on the ground, by submission or stoppage or KO, basically "Whatever works" Like the Promotion Breakdown in TEW07, you can break down MMA Companies through some of the same things. Some thoughts.. "No Holds Barred" : Are you a company whose fights are like the early days of UFC? It might get you more hardcore fans among the violence seekers, but the press will be against you (kinda like the Hardcore/Garbage feds in TEW) Grappling/Striking: At one end, you have the Grappling only competitions like Abu Dabi Combat Club's Submission World Championship, and the various Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu competitions. At the other end is promotions like K-1, which either feature all striking (or severely limit the time a fight can be on the ground) Entertainment/Sport: At one extreme of this you get Bob Sapp, and his flailing punches and his killer interviews. At the other end, you get Diego Sanchez, his killer MMA (Ok at least so far), and his personality of a wet sack. How much do you play up the personalities of the fighters? Regions/Hot Beds Brazil: Vale Tudo/Brazillian Jiu Jitsu are huge here. Focuses on: Grappling Eastern Europe: Has a lot of Combat-oriented styles, Focuses on: Striking Japan: They import a lot of different MMA styles, but has a proud tradition, coming from both grappling (Judo, Jiu Jitsu), and striking (Karate (since early in the 20th century) Focuses On: Mixture (leans Grappling) US: Just like Japan, a melting pot, but has a long history of boxing and other such striking arts, Focus on: Mixture (Strong Lean: Striking)

[Adam Ryland]

We're going in a slightly different direction. I didn't like the idea of labelling a fighter as one specific type, as a lot of modern fighters excel in a number of areas. Instead, what we have done is break down the stats into a lot of depth, and that allows you to create the style yourself through what you give them. For example, you classified Matt Hughes as GnP, which he clearly is fantastic at, but he's also developed his standing game a lot, to the point where he is a very well rounded fighter. Rather than get stuck having to call him a GnP fighter, it's better to be able to give him high stats in takedowns and punches\elbows from the mount to simulate that, and also give him decent (but not great) standing strikes. As for the companies, the way you set up their rules would inform what sort of style they do.