Is Daniel Cormier an A level athlete?

how much does he bench?
 
Anyone who disqualifies an A-Level athlete based on how round they are just needs to take a look at Warren Sapp and Sir Charles Barkley in their primes.
 
@frye666 you really think DC is more athetic than Brock Lesnar? lol Technique has nothing to do with athleticism and thats why Brock never made it to the olympics, cuz his technique was/is trash. He achieved everything in wrestling through pure athleticism.
 
Yes with a capitol Y, are you f....ng serious TS.????
 
I think some of those guys at AKA are a testament to true hard work and pushing yourself to the brink of exhaustion and repeatedly putting yourself through the grinder to be the best on a persistant basis.

I would say so, even if he wasn't an Olympian. I think Cormier has one of the best work ethics in the game and even though people laughed at him for crying it's that type of competitiveness and standard of excellence that he holds himself to that makes him one of the GOATs.
 
Char Jawz said:
Anyone who disqualifies an A-Level athlete based on how round they are just needs to take a look at Warren Sapp and Sir Charles Barkley in their primes.
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and Reggie White, a level above the A - level athletes he competed against.
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They are very mediocre. They gas out easy, they are out of shape and the onese who are in shape are on the juice.

Lewis admitted recently thay only trained 30 mins a day but uped that to 3 hours for the DC fight.

A lot of the fighters finish due to raw power than actual skill.

There are few good fighters though but it is very weak compared to LW,MW,WW
 
rjmbrd said:
DC is an A level athlete that is now over the hill. The skill level and overall athleticism in the heavyweight division is so atrociously low, that he can still run roughshod over them.

If DC had an equal skill set at 30 years old - training MMA throughout his 20's - he would absolutely smash the guy he is today.

Jon Jones has two brothers, and both of them are multi-year starters in the NFL. That is without any room for argument, elite genetics. He is an elite athlete. Since he's still in his physical prime, cheating aside, he beat Cormier to sleep.

When someone with elite athletic ability trips and falls into MMA, we call them the greatest of all time. In other sports, guys with that level of athleticism fill the entire ranks.

If the base pay went up in MMA, we would attract heavyweights of an appropriate age, background and athletic ability. We crown 8 new Division I All American heavyweights every single year - where are they?

Teaching high school gym for 45k/year plus benefits, because that is a more reasonable risk -vs- reward than getting 10k show money to get your head punched in.

If the base pay went up, the pool would get deeper literally overnight.
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This is a very common fallacy among career choices in sports and it's absolutely false.

Just because you can jump high and run fast it doesn't mean you will be a good MMA fighter. There is no evidence in sports history that suggests traditional sports and combat sports has correlation.

You can say Muhammad Ali was the best boxer of all time this doesn't mean he would have been the best baseball or tennis player has he chosen those career paths.

Wrestling and BJJ has proven to be the most successful crossover sports to MMA and both arts are respectfully under the category of "combat sports"
 
He's one of the most dominant MMA fighters of all time and his entire career has been after his physical prime, most of it under heavy drug testing

Yeah, he's a special athlete. A level for sure
 
Since when are olympians not A level? Its not like he was a member of the Jamaican bobsled team. He was collecting medals since 1995. Or do A level athletes only play NBA or NFL?
 
ILoveALLsports said:
Romero is an A-B level athlete and DC is not even close to his level when it comes to athleticism lol

Greg Hardy/Brock Lesnar/Romero > rest
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except all those guys get tired after 1-2 rounds and DC can be 30 pounds overweight and fight five rounds and still keep going. This ain't bodybuilding lol
 
Sad Dad said:
except all those guys get tired after 1-2 rounds and DC can be 30 pounds overweight and fight five rounds and still keep going. This ain't bodybuilding lol
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Against guys naturally (and unnaturally) bigger than him.
 
@Sad Dad lol

No shit sherlock. Greg Hardy has only been fighting for a short time and that's why his "cardio" isnt so good yet.

&

Brock Lesnar never gassed.
 
bad_k said:
This is a very common fallacy among career choices in sports and it's absolutely false.

Just because you can jump high and run fast it doesn't mean you will be a good MMA fighter. There is no evidence in sports history that suggests traditional sports and combat sports has correlation.
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Are you kidding? There is more to MMA than athleticism, but yes, how high you jump and how fast you can run and what it says about your underlying speed, strength, and explosiveness ABSOLUTELY has a correlation to fighting.

If it was purely technique, then Roxanne Modafferi would be one of the best female fighters in the world. But she's not, and gets beaten by fighters with worse technique who are younger, stronger, and faster.

There have been a number of former football players who have completely failed in MMA. But many others have achieved at least some measure of success despite not being at the level of solid NFL mainstays and starting MMA fairly late. (Eryk Anders, Matt Mitrione, even Brendan Schaub)

Even Pat Miletich has noted how quickly the NFL players he showed how to throw punches and kicks can throw powerful strikes, partly due to them being athletes who have to reproduce movements they're shown, and partly due to their innate physical gifts.
 
ILoveALLsports said:
@frye666 you really think DC is more athetic than Brock Lesnar? lol Technique has nothing to do with athleticism and thats why Brock never made it to the olympics, cuz his technique was/is trash. He achieved everything in wrestling through pure athleticism.
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Yes without a doubt. Before MMA, DC was in the Olympics. Brock could not make it into the NFL. Now in MMA, Brock is 5 and 3 and DC is the heavyweight and light heavyweight champ. I mean, it isn't even close.
 
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