I'm not sure if i've ever watched a fight of his but I'm glad I wasn't wrestling with him. He seems interesting with his ideas and all about anarchy, seems intellectual but honestly, he doesn't seem imbalanced like so many of the guys i've run into, he was totally cool.
ya, i saw that, impressive but you just know those guys have years of skills and experience. Wrestlers often seem to be more strength based too, my old trainer would deny that but i heard he could press 400 pounds at 160, boxers generally aren't that strong and even if they are, it doesn't play that much of a role in boxing. I heard shane mosely could press 350, it didn't make him that much more exceptional in the ring.
i'm pretty sure, i'd have to find it though, it was somewhere in europe. I'll check to see but you're right, the wrestler made a fool out of him.
Yep, Julius Long was appropriately named. He had like a 90" reach.
If you have the skills and sufficient strength you can outgrapple significantly heavier guys, especially in Folkstyle & Freestyle wrestling, but that's usually because the bigger men you're wrestling don't know how to grapple or they're no good at it. At some point you reach a limit to just how far up you can climb and I've never seen it tested against anyone nearly as heavy as 450 pounds or remotely as strong as a guy like Hafthor (a top 3 strongest man in the world for the last 8 years). It would be a terrible idea in a street fight to attempt. Even if you manage to get a takedown it could be rather meaningless since he could just power back up or power through submission attempts you apply on him (or through his own submission attempts on you). Top control would be a serious problem with a guy that ridiculously big and strong regardless of how technical your grappling may be as well as applying many submissions.
Yea I think we're talking about the same one
I remember this incident years ago... I even contacted Bas Rutten on twitter to show him that... Bas responded that he hates people like that and that he would've fucked up the big guy... But he also said that the victim in the video should have ran out... Which I agree with. The guy is looking at his phone, ignoring what is standing in front of him, absolutely not ready to fight... Which is suicidal:
it's not? but he made a fool out of him.
josh was good enough to easily beat one of the best fighters I ever knew, a guy you likely never heard of by the name of Chris charnos, he beat chris in his first fight and chris' trainer talked him into joining the gym we were at. I wrestled and worked with Chris and even though he was 0-2 as a pro, I still say he was one of the best fighters I've ever come across as far as knowledge, but.., upstairs he was weak, (sorry chris, if you're out there, don't get mad at me).
Because Mark Kerr is one of the biggest freaks in MMA history. He was known as the Smashing Machine for his brute strength and GnP. He was heavily a strength-based grappler and not that technical. Having a stronger background doesn't always mean that grappler is necessarily better than another. Barnett doesn't have that collegiate wrestling background but he was one of the best submission grapplers in the world and not just in the MMA realm (2009 No-Gi BJJ world champ, Gracie US National champ, Metamoris champ) and as a catch wrestler no less (not a traditional BJJ player).
