it is me and a poster on here who i met and sparred with me and said im over six foot and over 200 pounds on here after we sparred
it means it can be a problem if they land on top of you in say the mount however size is no gaurantee of strength therefore its no the most useful thing
take morio hihaonna for example hes a touch short of being a leprechaun and look how powerful he is im a foot taller than him and more than a hundred pounds heavier and i wouldnt like to fight him anytime soon
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LOL !
Ah, I see, too funny.
I have met Master Higaonna and have had the chance to train with him back in the 90's.
Very cool dude and very nice man, hits like a mule too, of course he said the same thing about me, or at least that is what the interpreter said, LOL !
Maybe he was calling me a mule, or saw me naked...anyway, that is another story.
yup freakishly strong man he is
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Ueshiba was another guy that, supposedly, in his prime was like 5-1 and 160lbs !
He was reknown for his strength.
Yep, the creator of Aikido, O-Sensei.
um he was? knid of funny being that he invented an art based soley on miinimal force
but of course your being a sarcastic arse because you cant argue your point clearly
your delusioned enough to think size some how ads up to being useful in a fight
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oh beleive me the feeling is more than mutual
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well ruiz was a title holder
as ugly as his style is he's not really "run of the mill"
he can actually fight when he wants to
he got starched by Tua, but went 1-1-1 with a circa 2000 holyfield, took out rahman, golota, and lost 2 close fights with 7 foot Nikolay Valuev
Dempsey and Marciano were better examples
In the old boxing days anything above 175 really didn't matter
what they did to larger men (230+) while weighing in the 180s should be illegal.
Dempsey's build was comparable to Silva's actually
In Muay Thai you got Kaoklai and Saenchai routinely giving up ridiculous weight to fight - yeah Kaoklai's record isn't spotless, but he scored that KO over mighty mo so anything's possible.
In pure BJJ you've got guys like Marcello Garcia.
I'm sure every sport has examples of guys that fight at higher weights.
I would've liked to have seen Silva go for Rashad Evans before trying heavyweight.
Rashad's another guy who used to fight at heavyweight and that would've been an interesting fight. Silva vs Couture at heavy would also be something I'd like to see.
As touted as Brock Lesnar's size & strength are, Randy Couture did pretty well for being so old & undersized until catching that big right hand.
Watching Fedor fighting at 230 against guys in the 300s and dominating makes me wonder if the old boxing weight class idea wasn't completely crazy. I mean, at a certain point there's a limit to human potential. We're not ants, we don't lift weights proportional to our size. The weights guys under 200 put up in powerlifting aren't so much lower than the guys over 200.
Silva's long time training partner is Nogueira a prior UFC heavyweight champion, so I think he'd be a good measuring stick.
-Jack Dempsey ch1 pg1 Championship FightingWhat would happen if a year-old baby fell from a fourth-floor window onto the head of a burly truck driver, standing on the sidewalk?
It's practically certain that the truckman would be knocked unconscious. He might die of brain concussion or a broken neck.
Even an innocent little baby can become a dangerous missile WHEN ITS BODY-WEIGHT IS SET INTO FAST MOTION.
Anderson Silva ducking top competition at light heavyweight.
This is nothing new.
Too bad those heavyweights would wreck him as well.
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its not so much the strength difference as the sheer size and weight you are being forced to try to move. and the added weight behind the punches yu are taking.
Fedor beat guys no where near his skill level, when skills are closely matched size matters.
Guys like lesnar are too big and too athletic. can you imagine BJ Penn fighting Rampage? that would be weight alomst the same difference as we are talking about here.
but as i said SIZE DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE STRONG
and any time a smaller person beats a bigger person theres allways an excuse its rediculous
speed power technique are all things that are important size does not guarantee any of this therefore it is not a needed thing
look for example when brock was still in pro wrestling kurt angle beat him at a actual wrestling match back stage and look at the size difference between the two
but of course its an exception to right lol
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