MMA is the only sport, where unathletic fat dudes can be "athletes"

[Power!]

shaq can't punch for shit.

has better technique that most MMA fighters

 

[mikesparrow]

discuss

What about baseball and Nascar racing?

 

[FlyingDeathKick]

Anybody say golf yet?

Not too many fat pro golfers besides Patrick Reed and some of the guys on the seniors tour. None of them are like Roy Nelson fat though.

 

[Mo8_98]

I doubt that. You have to reach Shaq first. People complain about Jon Jones reach. Size matters.

good luck teaching a 7 foot 320 pound man how to sprawl.

 

[Power!]

What about baseball and Nascar racing?

not sports

 

[FlyingDeathKick]

Plenty of fat dudes at HW in boxing and kickboxing.

 

[Mo8_98]

has better technique that most MMA fighters

 

[cevo]

Do you even American Football, bro ??

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A-level obesity

 

[dembones22]

@Power!

Nascar is def not a sport but baseball is the king of sports aside from combat sports.


Why are you always wrong ??

 

[blkdynamite]

Not too many fat pro golfers besides Patrick Reed and some of the guys on the seniors tour. None of them are like Roy Nelson fat though.

John Daly was a championship golfer weighing 300 lbs.

 

[Thug Rose]

there are other "sports" where physical shape isnt a big factor however mma is the only one where being in shape does matter yet the competition is so low that it doesnt take much to compete at high level.

 

[KootenayKid]

Fighting isn't a regular sport.

 

[Darbo]

prime shaq would be HW goat without training

His shaq-fu is strong.

 

[FlyingDeathKick]

John Daly was a championship golfer weighing 300 lbs.

Yeah he only won 5 times in 30 years though, I think TS is speaking generally. There's the odd fat dude in every sport, more in some sports than others.

 

[markys00]

true

and false

but it is true

How is it true, when it's not the ONLY sport...

 

[dembones22]

Fighting isn't a regular sport.

Actually fighting is among the original sports, so your misinformed post is invalid.


https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org...aily-life-and-practice/ancient-combat-sports/




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[ticho123]

MMA has a shallow talent pool - if we compare it to something like football or tennis those are sports that require skill and athleticism to even try to compete at a decent level, but in certain weight classes in MMA you can have some dude with a good chin and mentality, average technical skills and below average athleticism and have him be a moderately successful main card fighter. This is going to change sooner or later though. BM to MW is already in a position where every top fighter is formidable and with Flw and LHW it's more of a talent vaccum right now than a general trend of mediocre fighters near the top. HW is the main issue, it's more shit today than ten years ago. And let's not even being to talk about FMMA.

 

[n...not crazy]

Fat, but in NO WAY unathletic. That guy was fucking amazing.

There are fat idiots in the NFL, but you picked a bad example. Vince was a freak of nature.

 

[DS66]

 

[dragonclaw]