Quote from bjjtrader:
You are mostly describing clinch fighting, which is very effective, but you dont want to do it with multiple opponents. It only takes one guy to clinch with you to ensure all his buddies can clinch too, drag you to the ground and stomp your head into the ground.
You gotta run, and throw punches only when necessary to make the attacker pause so you can run more. Kicks.... probably not a good idea because only one guy has to sacrifice and take one kick, trap it, and you are going down.
A boxer can pull off what was shown in the video once in a blue moon, *IF* his attackers are totally clueless and run straight into him with their chins sticking out like in the video and assuming they are out in the open and there is room to run. Lots of IF's there. But 9/10 times even a boxer will be tackled and stomped. Taking a boxer down is pretty trivial.
If they are stupid enough to stand with him, he has a bit of a chance but do you really want to rely on luck and a perfect set of variables?
A Judo/BJJ guys has a lot of clinch, grip breaking knowledge and take down defense. (Wrestlers dont know how to deal with people grabbing their clothes. ) They will be the toughest to take down and most likely to break grips, trip, throw people, and run like hell.
A BJJ guy is the most likely to get back to his feet if taken down simply because they are the best on the ground and escaping ground positions.
But discussing multiple opponents is quite silly because 99% of fights are one on one, and if you cant even defend against a SINGLE attacker, you have no chance against multiple anyway.
Many traditional martial arts cannot even defend against one attacker so you gotta laugh when they start talking about multiple attackers.
Im a BJJ/Muay Thai guy, but in a multiple attacker scenario, id have to go with BJJ/Boxing since using kicks is just too risky in that scenario.
Sprinting skills are the best against multiple attackers.