I mean - consider for a second that we currently have the most comprehensive martial arts practice in all of history, with the largest humans, best sports science, and all that.

Any top UFC fighter from the past decade could probably beat the fuck out of anyone ever before the year 1980. Isn’t that wild? Dudes who have (probably) watched Rick and Morty could beat the piss out of Alexander The Great or whoever the fuck. And it wouldn’t even be close.

Biting and eye gouging is banned of course, but even if it wasn’t, Brock Lesnar isn’t letting you even get close to that. I mean, speaking of Brock, even big pro wrestlers - medieval blokes would shit their pants on sight if they saw Scott Steiner going freakmode off the roids. Perc Angle. Big Show - like what - he’s a literal giant.

But what about Mark Zuckerberg? He’s a big guy. He does his MMA. I think give him a month to train and send him back in time. Hate to hand it to him, but he would crush.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    27 days ago

    I don’t get why any of that matters. You’re stepping into a cage fighting ring. All that matters is winning using your hands. Past warriors survived ACTUAL combat. They have far less experience in a cage fight setting.

    The amount of fights means nothing. Muay Thai guys are tough, but put them in the cage with cage rules and they lose - if that wasn’t the case then the game would be FULL of muay Thai guys because UFC money is comparatively so much better.

    A UFC fighter isn’t going to be intimidated by some warrior. It’s just another muscly guy in small pants. And they will take them down with a thesaurus of takedowns, and finish them off with the most efficient chokes the world has ever seen. It’s like arguing our modern athletes wouldn’t win in long distance, or swimming, or literally any sport - they would dominate it.

    • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      27 days ago

      if that wasn’t the case then the game would be FULL of muay Thai guys because UFC money is comparatively so much better.

      Liberal brained. Muay Thai fighters have way too much pride in their sport and culture to do this. Same reason why Cuban baseball players don’t defect enmasse to the MLB

      Warriors are trained to kill, idk what the ruling would be if they punched Khabibs temple and he instantly dies but that’s the only way they lose is if that’s illegal

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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        27 days ago

        Material analysis brained. Follow the money. If Muay Thai bred a shit load of elite all rounders they’d go to the UFC. That’s what’s happened with every other martial art that’s fed into UFC. That’s why there’s so many foreign fighters populating the leagues - a 30k USD contract to get concussed isn’t worth much in America, but it buys you a home in many places in the world.

        Blokes in the army are trained to kill… It doesn’t matter. How are they even reliably punching Khabib in the temple, when he has shown himself to clearly be very hard to even take down or knock out, let alone one-punch. Go for the punch, Khabib double legs takedowns and then starts mauling you with his utterly impeccable wrestling skills. Have you ever sparred? It’s fucking impossible when someone has a large skill gap over you.