Muay thai or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu?

If you're doing boxing and wrestling that in and of itself is a good start. As far as the choice between MT and BJJ than that depends on what you want to be better at: ground fighting or standup fighting. Muay Thai would be an excellent addition to your boxing , as MT is renown for its vicious elbow strikes, destructive knees, the famous Thai clinch (which can paralyze even the most well-seasoned wrestler), and lastly, its brutal shin kicks.

On the flipside, BJJ is an awesome ground-style that is effective both in and out of the cage, as a startling number of street fights end up going to the ground. BJJ would be another good choice as the majority of untrained fighters will be helpless when you put them in your guard, and from the guard there literally dozens of armbars, triangles, shoulder-cranks, chokes, and spine-cranks that aren't to nice to be caught in.

Ultimately both are awesome arts by themselves, but if I were you in your situation, I'd probably go with Muay Thai simply because you can end a fight with a jab-cross in two seconds, while BJJ requires a little extra time to submit someone.

Best of Luck

The choice is more up to your personal preferences and situations. MT striking is weighed with the boxing and the BJJ with the wrestling. BJJ black belt can take a decade or longer if you are looking to master the art.

In my opinion though

If you have wrestling training at the moment then i would recommend MT. it teaches valuable striking and defense skills and the conditioning would be an infallible asset to any aspiring MMA fighter.

The BJJ can be picked up along the way and in a lot of cases a wrestler can hold his own with a bjj fighter anyways. You would need to learn the basic self defense against BJJ techniques but that is relatively easy. Learning BJJ wouldn't hurt but if you had to choose one now, before you seriously train for mma, i would recommend the Muay Thai over BJJ.

BOTH. it's crucial to be able to fight where ever the fight may go if your a muay thai guy that is great if the fight stays standing, but say your fighting a wrestler who will take you down, in muay thai there isn't any training from your back or any ground fighting. same with BJJ if your a grappler and your fighting a muay thai guy with good takedown defense he's going to force you into striking with him, because you won't be able to take him down to use your Brazilian jiu jitsu (BJJ). so it's very important to combine training in both of these martial arts to have an effective fighting style.

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u have to be very serious on both or all martial arts u do to be good at it. If i were u since u are young and have all the time in the world i would go for muay thai first and learn that few years and get the basic stuff and then go for Bjj. Muay thai will learn u more have to fight with kicks and hands and u get ur body stronger vs incoming hits, and when u have learned it well u can go for Bjj which will learn u different techniques which Muay thai dont have. So u can compare both and u will know the system both for example if u will fight vs Muay thai in the ring u know what to do cause u know Muay thai. Bjj u will learn ground fighting more. Muay thai will help u good in the street at the beginning cause in the street u dont want to go to the ground. But all needs to be learned cause u dont know what is going to happend.

Also in the rings u can see that all martial arts are doing the same and somethimes u dont know who is what. They all take like 3 or 4 things they are good at and they do it on the ring.

I wish u good luck

MT striking is weighed with the boxing and the BJJ with the wrestling. BJJ black belt can take a decade or longer if you are looking to master the art

Either one would be awesome to try. It depends all on what you would like to learn. Do you want to learn how to submit someone or knock a guy out? Muay Thai would probably be a little harder when it comes to conditioning due to the aggressive nature of it, but Jiu-Jitsu would work on your dexterity and flexibility. But like a said earlier either one is great.

bjj is better if you are trying to become a mma fighter. you have to take some kind of ground game to be good at it. Atleast at stand up you could just have good hands, and/or kicks. But once you get on the ground you'll be done if you dont have any bjj.

90% of Muay Thai fighters in Thailand suffer bone loss and arthritis in their 40s study showed. They can no longer perform the normal day to day activities because of hard training, so avoid Muay Thai, take BJJ

It depends do you prefer striking or grappling. I prefer striking so I would go with Muay Thai but if you prefer grappling go with BJJ. Scott said it.

IMHO go MT, you'll get good striking and conditioning and if your planning on wrestling you'll learn good takedowns and sprawling.

If I had the same opportunity I'd go with the MT.