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You can say the same thing about any stance in mma, yet fighters still defend takedowns. It's all in the micro-adjustments.Thats untrue. You give up the single and double since one of the arms is nearer to the face and the other is crossing the body.
Philly is dependant on the upper body moving and the lower body being still. In MMA, the headkicks, the doubles and singles, the body kick and the sweeps are some well known counters to it. Especially against the cage.
There's a reason its basically non existent in MMA.
The reason it isn't used in mma is because not many in mma know how to use the Philly shell/shoulder roll effectively. Even in boxing it isn't used by a lot of boxers. It's not a traditional/textbook style.