does the average MMA fan know more about hand to hand combat than anyone at any point in history?

[skullmaskkid]

in terms of what works and what doesn't and history refers to pre-MMA era.

if we transport a Demetrius Johnson back into antiquity would he be able to beat the most fiercesome of gladiators in a hand to hand fight? Pankraton rules?

 

[TITS]

if we transport a Demetrius Johnson back into antiquity would he be able to beat the most fiercesome of gladiators in a hand to hand fight? Pankraton rules?

No, because he is a midget.

 

[LiveFreeorDie]

No, because he is a midget.

3,000 years ago he would have been juggling to entertain a court.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

If there's one thing mma has proven, it's that lots of people can watch the same fight and then argue endlessly about what happened.

 

[TITS]

3,000 years ago he would have been juggling to entertain a court.

He pretty much does that now.

 

[Megatronlee]

No. Knowing OF it and being actually knowledgeable of the applicability of the subject matter aren't mutually exclusive to one another (Luke Thomas voice )

 

[superpunch]

Probably, but only because modern athletes have enhancements that ancient MMA fighters did not.

Assuming that everyone was all natural though, well the Greeks practiced MMA for 1000 years. We've done it for 25 years. There had to be some freak talents that we haven't seen the likes of yet.

We think KOs are brutal. There was one guy that won a fight in the Olympics by open hand punching a hole into his opponents abdomen and ripping out an organ.

 

[skullmaskkid]

He pretty much does that now.

 

[SaintSoldier]

No, because he is a midget.

The average male at the time was around the same size as DJ.

 

[guard_passer]

the average mma fan is an armchair expert. we'd be destroyed by cavemen in hand to hand combat

 

[skullmaskkid]

the average mma fan is an armchair expert. we'd be destroyed by cavemen in hand to hand combat

caveman gonna be tapping to dat RNC quick

 

[dickcheney]

Your title and first sentence seem to be about one topic...and then your DJ example/second questions seem to be related to a totally different topic

 

[faustian]

You do realize that the "average MMA fan" includes casuals and Shertards

I'd wager that the average fan in the early-mid 2000s knew way more about actual fighting

 

[campbecc]

No, because he is a midget.

BJJ fucks up people way bigger if they don't know it (or something similar). Carlos Gracie proved that.

 

[skullmaskkid]

given the techniques an average MMA fighter knows, if you put him in Homeric times, he would literlaly be regarded as Achilles

 

[TITS]

BJJ fucks up people way bigger if they don't know it (or something similar). Carlos Gracie proved that.

He would just get speared or get a rock smashed over his head.

 

[campbecc]

He would just get speared or get a rock smashed over his head.

it was hand to hand obviously which the original poster stated, if he had a gun he'd rule the world.

 

[BROWNPRIDE]

Of course, plus I had to register my hands!

 

[TITS]

it was hand to hand obviously which the original poster stated, if he had a gun he'd rule the world.

Cavemen don't fight fair, holmes.

 

[Oedad]

MM gets tossed to the lions with the rest of the Christians.

He doesn't last turteen seconds.

Or maybe that's where we get the story of daniel and lion's den.

DC gets sent back in time to ancient judea, and the ancient lions were unprepared for his high crotch and lay and pray