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Critics always say that a giant 270lb+ person would beat a guy like MM. Let me break it down. Imagine P4P being measured in X where X is all the skill and ability that a fighter has. Both a 155lb and a 265lb fighter have the same amount of X - let's just say 100 Xs. 155/100 = 1.55lbs per X where 265/100 = 2.65lbs per X. The heavyweight fighter has a the same skill as the lightweight but has a worse weight to skill ratio. Therefore, POUND FOR POUND the lightweight is better skilled.
To take it further, if you keep the same ratios, the lightweight fighter that had a 1.55lb/X ratio would have 170.97lbs/X ratio if his whole fighting package were inflated to the size of a heavyweight. which would leave the natural heavyweight at almost a 71lb/X disadvantage. Assuming my math is right, which it may not be, but the concept is the same. If you have the same amount of X in two different container sizes then one is more dense, or P4P in sports terms.
It's a pretty simple concept and most people who argue it don't understand what it's supposed to mean. All you people argue is that "Oh of course he would beat him! He's so much bigger than that little midget! He could pick him up by the shirt collar and toss him around like nothing! Put them in a fight tomorrow and the midget would lose." but you fail to realize that the P4P idea was created to image what would happen if two fighters were the same size with the same skills they had at their original weights. What if the bigger guy were MM's size and vice versa? THAT'S WHAT THE THOUGHT EXPERIMENT IS!!!!
What don't you understand about this? Ya goofs.
To take it further, if you keep the same ratios, the lightweight fighter that had a 1.55lb/X ratio would have 170.97lbs/X ratio if his whole fighting package were inflated to the size of a heavyweight. which would leave the natural heavyweight at almost a 71lb/X disadvantage. Assuming my math is right, which it may not be, but the concept is the same. If you have the same amount of X in two different container sizes then one is more dense, or P4P in sports terms.
It's a pretty simple concept and most people who argue it don't understand what it's supposed to mean. All you people argue is that "Oh of course he would beat him! He's so much bigger than that little midget! He could pick him up by the shirt collar and toss him around like nothing! Put them in a fight tomorrow and the midget would lose." but you fail to realize that the P4P idea was created to image what would happen if two fighters were the same size with the same skills they had at their original weights. What if the bigger guy were MM's size and vice versa? THAT'S WHAT THE THOUGHT EXPERIMENT IS!!!!
What don't you understand about this? Ya goofs.