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going to an mma gym without a base: you will become decent. a jack of all trades since you'll be learning bits from every art. but you'll never become good at just one thing.
say you train at mma gym for 5 years. if you go into a ADCC tournament, you will get destroyed because you aren't good enough in submission grappling.
assuming both of you train equally as hard and are both about the same skill level. with your 5 years of mma, a guy with 4 years spent training at muay thai and jiujitsu who then spends 1 year at mma will most likely tool you. he will have a strong base at stand up and kickboxing. the 1 year of mma was just the glue to let the fighter be more well rounded.
if you're looking to compete. don't go into just mma. you gotta take separate arts at the same time and then use mma to be more complete. like getting use to the smaller gloves or learning to ground and pound.
almost all top level mma guys have a base in something. the best are the ones that can transition their base into mma. some guys can't transition that well even though they are the most elite in their arts. like ricardo arona
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