brock lesnar won the HW title.
Brock Lesnar is a wrestler. His collegiate wrestling record:
There is enough overlap and transitions between NCAA wrestlers and football players. And between wrestlers and ufc fighters. To show that there is not any difference in athleticism between football, wrslting, and ufc.
The argument isn't that "a level athletes" can walk into MMA and just win, the argument is that if the "a level athletes" started fighting at 6 years old instead of starting football or basketball at 6 years old, than those athletes would dominate the current ones. Nobody is saying that Ray Lewis would step up against Stipe or DC and beat them now, we are saying that IF Ray Lewis chose wrestling as a kid, instead of football, than he would have been HW champ.
Imagine not only having this thought but publicising it on the internet LOL
Nick Hardwick. Once you start looking for it, there is similar athleticism in ufc and NFL. Plenty of wrestlers who play in nfl.
The talent pool in wrestling is infinitely smaller than football, there is no comparison beyond whatever anecdotes you can muster
What if you applied this argument to other occupations. Is a stock broker smarter than a professor? Do smarter people go into finance than academia? Or is it that some people enjoy research and teaching about their passion, and some people want to buy, sell, and make more money?
Brock Lesnar has a legit fighting background, he is a freak of nature and still got his ass whooped by Cain. So the Brock example doesn't show any domination.
The argument isn't that "a level athletes" can walk into MMA and just win, the argument is that if the "a level athletes" started fighting at 6 years old instead of starting football or basketball at 6 years old, than those athletes would dominate the current ones. Nobody is saying that Ray Lewis would step up against Stipe or DC and beat them now, we are saying that IF Ray Lewis chose wrestling as a kid, instead of football, than he would have been HW champ.
There might be more football players than wrestlers in total. But my own anecdotal observations led me to reading lots of articles about athletes who transitioned both ways from football to wrestling. Cliff notes: there is no advantage to the athleticism of the best in either sport. There are great wrestlers who made ok football players, and grat football players who made ok wrestlers.
