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Dirty Boxing for Mixed Martial Arts: From Wrestling to Mixed Martial Arts Paperback – September 10, 2009

by Matt Lindland (Author), Glen Cordoza (Author), Erich Krauss (Author)

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Matt "The Law" Lindland is an all-American wrestler and Olympic Silver Medalist in Greco-Roman Wrestling. In Dirty Boxing for Mixed Martial Arts, he unveils for the first time the unorthodox and highly effective system of fighting that carried him to the top of the mixed martial arts mountain.

Lindland provides the tools needed to be proficient in both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, and then demonstrates how to tailor these techniques to overwhelm your opponent in MMA competition. He covers fundamental control positions such as the two-one-one, underhook and head control, as well as numerous bone-crushing attacks from each position. Learn your opponent's most common defenses to your attacks, and then how to use these reactions to launch secondary attacks. Lindland also shows you how to strike your way into the clinch and, once there, he schools you on the art of dirty boxing, striking from close range, and a plethora of throws and takedowns.

Whether you are a wrestler looking to compete in MMA or an MMA fighter looking to sharpen your game, Dirty Boxing for Mixed Martial Arts is the book for you.

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260 pages
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English
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Victory Belt Publishing
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September 10, 2009
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9 x 0.75 x 11.5 inches
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0981504442
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978-0981504445
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Matt Lindland is a Greco-Roman Olympic Silver Medalist and one of the top-ranked mixed martial arts competitors in the world.

Erich Krauss is a professional Muay Thai fighter. He has written for the New York Times and is the author of more than twenty books.

Glen Cordoza is a professional MMA fighter. He is the author of eight books on the sport of MMA, including the best-selling title, Mixed Martial Arts.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Victory Belt Publishing (September 10, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 260 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0981504442
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0981504445
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.75 x 11.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,164,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #320 in Mixed Martial Arts
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- #6,849 in Martial Arts (Books)

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ERICH KRAUSS is a New York Times bestselling author who has written more than thirty books. Inspiration for his stories comes from more than twenty years traveling the globe, from living in the Amazon rainforest to fighting professionally in the Muay Thai rings of Thailand. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Georgina.
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Glen Cordoza is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Selling author, and a former professional mixed martial artist and Muay Thai boxer. He is one of the most published authors on the topics of MMA, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, and fitness with twenty books to his credit.
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Good book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 9, 2019

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Good book for transitioning from wrestling to MMA. A lot of useful tips and techniques.

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Judgepro

Dirty Deeds are Done Dirt Cheap!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 17, 2011

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This is by far a must have for any serious combat athlete. This is a very underrated subject and Matt Lindland and Victory Belt delivers with a very detailed manual on the subject of inside fighting. You can find striking, wrestling, jiu-jitsu and other books are plentiful. However, if you want to learn some of the tricks to pull off during entry to clinch and/or other aspects of the inside fight game not much else is out there, and I have found no better then Victory Belt for any fight topic text. Especially this title! Buy it!

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S. Parker

Good instructional

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 8, 2009

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This book shows mma from a wrestler's standpoint. It is a wonderful addition to a more traditional background. Plus, wrestler's will enjoy the familiar starting points. Overall, a very refreshing mma book even if it doesn't cover as much "dirty boxing" as the title would indicate.

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Wayne Li

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2015

Nice book.

Excellent training manual

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2009

Matt Lindland's Dirty Boxing for Mixed Martial Arts is surprisingly good.I didn't expect as much as I do from some Victory Belt manuals perhaps because I've got a bias against wrestling, perhaps because Matt Lindland comes with a lot of baggage.

Let's get that out of the way up front. Yeah, yeah, Lindland is the guy who put together a documentary about how he was being blackballed from the UFC because they fear him and then went out and got KTFO'd in under a minute in his very next fight. He got run out of the UFC in a dispute over a sponsor and he's funny looking. He got his position on the U.S. Olympic team by going to court to appeal a loss in the qualifiers.

All of that said, the guy won a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 2000 Olympics and has won more than 20 MMA bouts. In his twelve year MMA career he's beaten top fighters like Pat Miletich, Carlos Newton, Jeremy Horn, Ivan Salaverry, Travis Lutter and Mike Van Arsdale.

As one of the founders of Team Quest, along with Randy Couture and Dan Henderson, Lindland pioneered the path of elite wrestlers entering MMA. He also was among the first to prove that wrestlers could expand their game and successfully incorporate submissions and strikes into their MMA games. The even split of his wins between decisions, submissions and TKO's testifies to his well-rounded mastery of MMA.

Now let's talk about the book.

There have been some complaints that the book is misnamed. The critics are saying that it's a wrestling manual for MMA, not a text book on how to use Dirty Boxing in MMA. To some extent that is a fair criticism. The book's original title was "From Wrestling to MMA" and that might have been a more apt title. But at the same time, this is easily the best book how to apply Dirty Boxing in MMA, bar none.

Sure, only somewhat less than a third of the book specifically discusses striking. But the key thing is the context in which that discussion of striking takes place.

Matt Lindland's Dirty Boxing for Mixed Martial Arts details a complete MMA system for the standup game. Where Randy Couture's Wrestling for Fighting is a primer that outlines the basic techniques of getting and defending takedowns, Lindland's book provides a complete system. The closest comparison I've read would be Eddie Bravo's two books.

Like Bravo's books, this one provides the diligent student with a series of options from every key position. Lindland outlines the key standing control positions and shows how to transition back and forth between them so you can take advantage of your opponent's mistakes and avoid his strengths. The structure of the book is also logical and builds a strong foundation at the beginning that allows him to build a complex but sold system by the end.

Reading this book really reinforced by respect for wrestling as a martial art. It's as much built on skill, science and strategy as jiu jitsu, Muay Thai, Judo or boxing. Lindland's moves are fundamentally predicated on misdirection and deception. He shows how to bait your opponent into moving and then how to use that energy against him. In that, Lindland's approach to takedowns reminds me of nothing so much as Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira's approach to the sweep.

It's only once he's established the foundation and shown the reader how to use the techniques of Greco-Roman wrestling to thoroughly control your opponent's body that he elaborates on how to take advantage of that control with strikes, throws and submissions.

The book is the usual great Victory Belt production. The sections are color coded for easy reference in the gym. Each move is described step-by-step and each step is illustrated by color photos. I did notice that many of the action shots are a bit blurry, this is an unfortunate distraction but doesn't impact the educational value of the book as the shots that show how to set up the grips and positioning are crystal clear, it's only the mid-air shots of the throws that tend to be blurry. In trying to do my due diligence as a book reviewer, I did conclude that the lack of an index is regrettable, although the organization, color-coding and detailed table of contents go a long way towards eliminating the need for one.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 12, 2009

MATT LINDLAND
DIRTY BOXING for Mixed Martial Arts
with Glen Cordoza & Erich Krauss
(Victory Belt)
© Marc Wickert October 11, 2009
[...]

An All-American and silver medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Matt Lindland debuted in MMA in 1997, along with US World Greco Roman Wrestling Team buddies Randy Couture and Dan Henderson. In 1999, this elite trio founded Team Quest Fight Club in Portland, Oregon - one of the most successful training camps in mixed martial arts history.

This same trio also formulated the devastating "no frills" style of stand-up combat adapted for cage fighting known as "dirty boxing".

Rather than spreading his wealth of cage knowledge too thinly, in "Dirty Boxing for Mixed Martial Arts", Matt Lindland addresses the first aspect of fighting: the stand-up game, and he covers standing control positions, striking, off-balancing techniques, takedowns, throws, takedown defense, and the dirty boxing clinch. "With all MMA fights starting in the stand-up position, it is important to master this realm of combat before tackling the ground game, which will be the focus of my next book," says Lindland.

Part One: Basic Skills
Includes stance, positioning, controls, control setups, underhook setups, and transitioning to control positions.

Part Two: Takedown Setups
Deals with two-on-one techniques, where you latch onto one of your opponent's arms with both of your hands as a form of control or for executing an arm drag. This section also covers underhook control and head control.

Part Three: Finishing the Takedown
Illustrates double-leg finishes, single-leg finishes, and back control finishes.

Part Four: Takedown Defense
Demonstrates takedown defense 101, double-leg defense, and single-leg defense.

Part Five: Striking
Includes striking into the clinch and reestablishing the clinch.
Part Six: Clinching Techniques
Here Matt takes the reader through off-balancing techniques, dirty boxing techniques, takedowns, throws, and double collar tie defense.

This book is a real gem for anyone wishing to improve their game dramatically under the tutorage of one of the game's best. As Matt Lindland states, "The techniques that you'll find over the coming pages are the ones that I have used to defeat top MMA fighters in competitions around the world, including the Ultimate Fighting Championship."

What a cracker!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 21, 2009

Let's start with the obvious: the title is very misleading. This book is NOT about dirty boxing. It is a wrestling manual, with only a few pages dedicated to striking. The material presented is decent: control positions, set ups, and takedowns (most of them being single and double legs). No ground game and little striking. In many ways, it is similar to Randy Couture's book, but not quite as good. The photo and writing quality is on par with other Victory Belt books. One difference is that unlike other titles, this one does not open with a biographical section--perhaps because Lindland has few fans and popular curiosity about his life is next to none. Overall, it's ok, but not nearly as original or as informative as other Victory Belt books.

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TheManFromACRONYM

The best training manual of its kind.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 15, 2012

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Cutting straight to the heart of the matter, 'Dirty Boxing' is without a doubt the best wrestling for MMA training manual on the market today.

Anyone with wrestling experience will tell you that whilst its one of the most fundamentally necessary skills for the mixed martial artist there are masses of techniques that are not appropriate for full contact fighting. What Lindland does is provide you with a vast volume of the very best wrestling techniques for MMA, with a primary focus on the Greco-Roman style clinch and takedown techniques of which perhaps nobody currently fighting in MMA is better qualified to instruct you than Olympic silver medalist Lindland.

Be advised that the book concentrates almost entirely on takedowns - there are no strikes or submissions in this volume.

As a person who has practiced both wrestling and MMA for more than ten years I have found this book invaluable in increasing my range of takedowns and skills and the techniques that this book concentrates on have become a regular part of my arsenal.

I cant recommend this book enough as a wrestling-to-MMA instructional manual - it is certainly superior, much more diverse and detailed than Randy Coutures 'Wrestling for Fighting' (which I think has been overrated by amazon reviewers). I would go as far as to say that it is the definitive guide of its sort.

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Arturo Gonzalo del Álamo

Mucha lucha y poco golpeo

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on March 23, 2012

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Con ese título pensaríamos que nos encontramos ante un libro que trata de boxeo con triquiñuelas, boxeo sucio.

No obstante, si entendemos que es un boxeo sucio porque incluye técnicas o tácticas antirreglamentarias en el contexto del boxeo convencional, aquí tenemos todo tipo de ilegalidades, ya que parece más bien un manual introductorio a las luchas olímpicas, tanto libre como grecorromana, con especial incidencia en double leg, single leg, arm drags, body locks, snap down, proyecciones de cadera desde el clinch over-under... todo orientado al combate de MMA.

El golpeo expuesto no es nada del otro mundo. Quien haya visto a Lindland pelear sabe que no está hecho un experto en K-1 precisamente... Su estrategia se basa más en llegar al clinch, castigar desde ahí, llevar la pelea al suelo, dominar abajo y finalizar con golpeo. Es decir, en la línea de los que proceden de las luchas olímpicas y concretamente de la greco, como su antiguo compañero de equipo en Team Quest Randy Couture.

En este libro se enseña a todo lo anterior menos lo último. Dice que habrá un 2º libro sobre finalizaciones y espero que así sea porque este libro me ha sido muy útil para mis entrenamientos de MMA.

El autor es muy feo, desgarbado y todo lo que queráis, pero el libro está en línea con los demás libros de la editorial. Muy bueno!

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MR GLYN POWDITCH

A masterclass in wrestling fundamentals. The BJJ of positional wrestling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 5, 2014

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A fantastic, masterpiece of a book let down by a misleading title. This is fundamentally a wrestling book. Lindland even starts off by saying, for example, the two-on-one doesn't work as well in MMA but you are still going to learn it. Lindland provides a roadmap of wrestling much like many BJJ practioners will understand in terms of positional hierarchy. I also own Randy Couture's book which I like but it doesn't have Lindland's positional overview. Lindland shows how the two-on-one is the foundational position of wrestling from which pretty much everyone else flows. So for example, he shows the two-on-one position to back take and then all the reactions the opponents will make to prevent the back take. From there, he goes to undercooks and head ties. There is lots on fundamental posture such as the importance of head positioning when taking an under hook. This is a great book for anyone interested in wrestling, MMA, or indeed BJJ and Judo practioners looking for a more fundamental and basic understanding of their own sports than the vast majority of books out there. Buy it!

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余計な前置き一切なし

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on October 18, 2009

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この手の技術本はだいたい前半は著者の今までの人生などが長ったらしく書いてあるが、
この本はそういう余計な前置きが一切無い。
270ページみっちりフルカラーで総合格闘技用のレスリングとダーティボクシングを紹介している。
そして重要な部分は太字で文字が書いてある。
無駄がなく、本当に素晴らしい。

載ってるムーブも右から見た写真と左側から見た写真が載っていたりして実用第一の内容。
日本人に圧倒的に足りないレスリング力を補強するにはもってこい。
これは総合をやってる人間にとってはマストバイな本。
唯一の欠点は大きすぎて持ち運びに向かないこと。
同じ会社のノゲイラやアンデウソンさんシリーズみたいに教則DVDをぜひ出してほしい。