Not sure where you heard that, but as an old guy with a lot of old friends I'd say its wrong for most of us. Think about it. We're financially well off (a lifetime of earning), free of the responsibilities of parenthood (being a grandparent is far easier) and career, still have fairly good...
GSP was almost 39 with one fight in seven years. As great as GSP was when he was young and active, by the time they were talking about GSP - Khaib, GSP was old and inactive -- it wouldn't have been a good fight at all. It was long past time to build up a new generation of fighters instead of...
The key word in your sentence is average, and its likely true that the average Caucasus wrestler is better. However that's irrelevant, as in professional sport (like MMA) or elite amateur sport (like Olympics or World Championships) only the best from each country compete -- there simply are no...
Irrelevant, given that comparing the best is what's important, irrespective of what percentage of the population they represent. Because only the best get to the Olympics, and what counts is how good the best are, not how good the top 1000 are.
In terms of the ROC vs the United States, ROC got...
GSP said that everyone on the national team was much better than him, but with four or five years training he thought he might be able to make the team. Its why he didn't pursue the Olympics.
The United States ended up with 9 medals in the last Olympics, and by normal rankings came in 3rd behind ROC and Japan. By any rankings they came ahead of any of the Caucus nations. So why do you think American wrestling is inferior?
Other than that, the transition between pure wrestling and...
If you're talking about the AA fight, even Fedor's boxing coach said that Fedor was slowing down because of age -- and coaches never admit that unless they think its so obvious that there's no point in denying it. His coach did say though that he was making up for it because of increased skill...
It was 2008. Interestingly enough though, a couple of the fighters were already saying that Fedor hadn't been fighting much in recent years (ie recent in terms of 2008) and so was no longer what he once was.
Of course, on Sherdog there'll be people saying he was already out of his prime in...
Hm, thousands of MMA clubs around the world by 2009, probably 10,000 HW. Do I think Fedor was average, say ranked about 5000 in the world? I'd put him a bit higher than that.
Fedor was clearly no longer in his prime by 2009. However there's no way he was just an average fighter by then. Go...
The double leg is definitely a quick win.
Leg kicks though aren't nearly as easy to use effectively against boxers as people seem to think -- when kickboxing started in America in the 70's they had to introduce a rule requiring at least three kicks per round because boxers would just ignore leg...
Would you accept a boss who repeatedly insulted you in public and wouldn't allow you to do your favorite pastime (in his case sambo) in your off time? Seriously, don't Sherdoggers have any self-respect? Most people I know would tell any potential boss who insulted you in private or in public...
Actually I've worn both. Have you ever worn 8oz or 10 oz competition boxing gloves rather than 16 oz sparring gloves. Not only are they considerably lighter, the padding is much stiffer. And much of the weight of padding is spread out over areas not involved in the impact (ie over the thumb...
They were all rated as extended champs in the dominant organization of their day. They were all extended champs in the dominant organization of their day. No over-rating possible.
The four ounce gloves makes almost no difference, the extra glove weight is padding around the fingers etc to protect the hands, not to make the boxing punches softer. The main punching difference between MMA gloves and boxing gloves is that the MMA gloves are too small to be used in blocking...
Ngannou hasn't fought the level of boxers that Fury has, so you're comparing his KO record against lesser punchers vs Fury's record against the best punchers in the world. You seem to at least partially agree its about being able to land power rather than power against a stationary target. So...
Actually we're arguing that the important number is who can deliver the most damage on target in a match rather than who can hit a non-defending stationary target harder.
In terms of actual power transmitted to a punch my bet would be on an Olympic level shotputter, just based on sports science...
That's probably the most important number -- its why if Ngannou boxed Fury most people would bet on Fury. He very likely would land more actual damage, and actual damage is much more important than theoretical damage. There are shot putters out there who can punch harder than Ngannou...
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