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Kai Kara handling a much bigger opponent with ease!
I remember expert analyst @LouisBolanos saying how Hong Man Choi had "never done wrestling in his life" and could easily throw around heavyweights because size is unstoppable after a certain point.
But Sherdog said this was impossible? I remember expert analyst @LouisBolanos saying how Hong Man Choi had "never done wrestling in his life" and could easily throw around heavyweights because size is unstoppable after a certain point. (Guys Hong Man Choi was a multiple time Ssireum national finalist and champion in Korea, which is folk wrestling, that was his background...wrestling, wrestled most of his life).
Remember people who think trained MMA fighters can't beat untrained muscle heads have no idea what they're talking about and have most likely never trained. There's definitely cases where some Bantamweight might not beat up LeBron James, but in general flyweights and bantamweights can probably still beat up most giants and there's plenty of Lightweights who'd make mince meat out of your favorite NBA and NFL players zero diff.
Funny how you hardcore dodged my response last time, so here it is again:
Did you actually watch his championship match or did you just use Google? Choi became champion by beating another equally gigantic, equally unskilled dude. To use this as "proof" to Choi's wrestling skills is about as stupid as using Bob Sapp's two wins against K-1 HW champion Ernesto Hoost as "proof" to his kickboxing skills.
Also, how convenient of you to miss the part where it says after a certain point. You know that's the most important part, right? If you can't overcome someone's skill with strength and size, that doesn't mean skill > strength and size, it means you don't have enough strength and size. Volkanovski, a FW, benches 275lbs. A HW who can bench 400lbs is not even 50% stronger. Try going against someone literally 3x as strong, or an animal literally 10+x as strong, and your skill would mean jack shit. Ever seen a human outwrestle or submit an elephant?
Have you ever watched BJJ tournaments? Why do guys like Kron Gracie, Marcelo Garcia and Andy Murasaki medal in the absolutes vs other black belts who outweigh them by often 50+lbs?
Your secondary point wasn't what I was arguing, Choi has a lot of wrestling experience and actually trained MMA.