Chapter 397 - 364: The Captain’s Responsibility
"Wu Li’s fighting style had always been fierce and domineering!
In those UFC fights, his victories were always achieved with his overwhelming explosive power, smashing his opponents to the ground with punch after punch.
Therefore, if Wu Li had started the match by pressuring Wen Tai in a familiar fashion, eventually knocking Wen Tai out, KO, it wouldn’t have surprised anyone, nor would it have made much of an impact on the Thailand Team who had mentally prepared for it, because Wu Li simply had the ability; this was an accepted fact.
Yet, Wu Li didn’t fight like that upon entering the ring. Instead, he used Tai Chi’s ’Borrowing Force to Strike’ skill to slowly grind against Wen Tai in an incomparably suave manner, leaving people feeling surprised but also acknowledging that Wu Li’s fighting style was truly stylish.
It was just as Wang Ruojun exclaimed: It felt like watching a movie.
In reality, many martial arts moves are not aesthetically pleasing, and can even be ugly and ungraceful; for instance, the chaotic style of Monkey Fist involves scratching and quickly grabbing the opponent’s face, poking eyes. This resembles a catfight with no sense of beauty.
Another example is the Tuo Form Fist, which Wu Li taught the students of Bo Yuan Martial Arts Hall to use at the edge of the ring to turn defeat into victory. The technique involves crouching with a hunched body and lunging forward. Sometimes, to guard against attacks from above, they even need to hug their heads, aptly described by the phrase ’scuttling like a rat.’
After that, the usage of leaning, relying, and striking with the back is slightly better, but if striking with the hips or buttocks is involved, then the image becomes unsightly: imagine someone hunched over, clutching their head, and using their rear end to hit others...
Modern combat sports are not much different, with two people often ending up with bruised faces and even blood-smeared faces being a common sight. In Mixed Martial Arts, two large men wearing shorts embracing and writhing on the ground together is also not a particularly pretty sight...
Combat sports are like this; they display speed, power, gore, and the will to fight, presenting a brutal beauty, but are definitely not associated with words like ’stylish’ or ’cool.’
Really stylish and cool fighting scenes can only be seen in movies: A person dodges an attack with a turn, effortlessly blocks the opponent’s punches and kicks with one hand and then casually knocks the opponent all over the place... These fight scenes are choreographed in advance, and both sides are not using their full strength, which is the only way to achieve such an effect. It’s very difficult to produce this effect in a real fight.