if you take a modern MMA fighter and drop him into antiquity, Greek or Roman, what would happen?

[maxi diablo]

Hand to hand? Ufc fighters with bjj alone.

 

[hymn]

physically inferior? I think you mean average height of 4'5 with zero knowledge of nutrition. But what do I know.

that's not really true though, even the minimum height for legionnaires was 5'5" and they knew things about nutrition from experience. but we are still bigger on average.

there are some interesting feats of strength from antiquity that haven't been matched in modernity:

By comparing these findings to classical texts that record details of their endurance, he realised that the rowers of ancient Athens - around 500BC - would had to have been highly elite athletes, even by modern day standards.


Says Dr Rossiter: "Ancient Athens had up to 200 triremes at any one time, and with 170 rowers in each ship, the rowers were clearly not a small elite. Yet this large group, it seems, would match up well with the best of modern athletes. Either ancient Athenians had a more efficient way of rowing the trireme or they would have to be an extremely fit group. Our data raise the interesting notion that these ancient athletes were genetically better adapted to endurance exercise than we are today."

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/581/fitness_has_fallen_since_the_days_of_ancient_greece

 

[Watcha gunna doo]

Conor would stiffen them

 

[Air Lats]

Conor would stiffen them

The Greeks?

Absolutely

 

[Watcha gunna doo]

The Greeks?

Absolutely

Greeks, Romans, lions, bears, tigers, snakes. Conor KOes all these bums

 

[Air Lats]

Greeks, Romans, lions, bears, tigers, snakes. Conor KOes all these bums

The statement was that he'd 'stiffen' them.

Phrasing.