I agree with rogan! HW division is lucky that Lebron James never tried MMA.

[tdluxon]

Zion would be a beast

 

[PD4838]

That's the thing people don't take into consideration. Sure, he's more athletic than anyone in the UFC by a large margin. However have you ever seen him get nudged by a guy 50 pounds lighter? He falls over and starts crying like he just got hit with a bat or something.

There were/are some NBA guys who would make good UFC fighters due to their athleticism and ability and willingness to fight.
Daryl Dawkins
Charles Oakley
Charles Barkley
Rick Mahorn

bill laimbeer liked to get socked up lol

 

[jeff7b9]

Jesus Christ

Combat sports and team sports are not even remotely similar.

You have no idea if Lebron can take a punch, throw a punch, if he has "fight" in him, if he could handle the fear, if he has aggression, if he would quit or wilt when hurt.

These shit threads belong in wasteland and anyone who makes one should get a flaming gay pink belt.

 

[jeff7b9]

6-12 months exp. and he almost killed the second greatest HW of all time and beat Hoost twice.

Steroids

 

[jeff7b9]

This is one of the worst uppercuts ive ever seen ... almost WMMA level:

MMAs striking/boxing level is still shit, so who cares.

You are right. MMA uppercuts have nothing on elite boxers

He should take lessons from a proven elite undefeated HW boxing world champion

 

[cheesus]

He could have a glass jaw for all we know.

 

[RampageFaction]

88”reach? Where’d you get that from?
Basketball players like making tens of millions of dollars getting into fake fights and scuffles. Nothing leads me to believe LBJ would be a great fighter.

 

[Magnum1978]

Guys like Cormier and Fedor would cave a dude like that's face in

 

[Bend NvR Break]

This is one of the worst uppercuts ive ever seen ... almost WMMA level:

MMAs striking/boxing level is still shit, so who cares.

Favorite uppercut KO of all time

 

[I am your real dad]

LeBron is a pansie. If he got punched he would quit.

Wilder got beat by a retired and out of shape and out of prime Fury. He is a can crusher and very chinny. The only big win he has is Ortiz.

 

[Mike K.O]

Lebron doesn't have the frame for MMA

 

[Madmick]

LOL, I see our TS got bored with the SB because everyone there knew he was a troll from Day 1.

 

[ermac88]

Guys like Cormier and Fedor would cave a dude like that's face in

Come on, an NFL washout that started mma in his 30s put Fedor to sleep.

 

[iwillbebackin3weeks]

Lol Tyson threw set up body shots into decapitating uppercuts harder than anything Wilder will throw in his life

Julian Jackson was 60 pounds lighter and hit every bit as hard with better technique

Ya ever heard of Earnie Shavers?

wilder is 100% one of the hardest hitter in the history of combat sports.

Wiler KOd Stiverne ded with 1 punch through his guard

Jesus Christ

Combat sports and team sports are not even remotely similar.

You have no idea if Lebron can take a punch, throw a punch, if he has "fight" in him, if he could handle the fear, if he has aggression, if he would quit or wilt when hurt.

These shit threads belong in wasteland and anyone who makes one should get a flaming gay pink belt.

Hilarious.

You are making MMA or combat sports in general more complicated than it really is.

Combat sports are literally for guys who couldnt make it into real sports or were bad at school. Hell ... even Pauli agrees with me.

Theres a reason why HW (just an example) isnt as deep as back then.

give Struve a jab and he becomes Semmy Schilt, a guy who might be a GOAT in kickboxing, but was nothing more than another guy in MMA.

people act like MMA is kickboxing, it's not, being that huge and tall isn't necessarily an advantage.

you ever see Kharitonov basically sit on Schilt's arm while he beat the fuck out of him? Schilt could do nothing but make noises like a dying moose because he was so huge that he couldn't get the correct leverage to get Kharitonov off of him. a guy who was much smaller than Schilt would be impossible to put into that position.

Semmy only lost vs elite guys at the end of his career and still: These guys are not on the level of Lebron ... not even close. Oh and we both know that theres still a lot of bro science in MMA camps ... MC Dojos from the 90s for the win.

We have never seen a guy like lebron before.

Lets see. He has 3 years of just MMA before the Werdum fight. 2006,07,08. How is that two years? Was already boxing before MMA. Had his first pro boxing debut 1 year before he entered MMA. Thats 4 years right there. Then how long did he train boxing before his pro debut?

He literally knocked Werdum out after three years of MMA.

You could actually ignor his background, cuz hes from a 3. world country.

 

[Based and White Pilled]

He sits out because of cramps. I don't see him responding well to getting hit

 

[Magnum1978]

Come on, an NFL washout that started mma in his 30s put Fedor to sleep.

Yeah when Fedor was older than Hades

 

[ermac88]

Yeah when Fedor was older than Hades

And the same age as mitrione

 

[jeremyemilio]

Fuck Joe Rogan. And fuck anyone that buys into his idiotic bullshit.

I think a lot of people don't realize that it was Bob Arum who said this first, not Rogan.

Also, I don't think that people understand what Arum was actually talking about. He's referring the fact that in 1974 Ali and Foreman made over $5 million each for their Rumble in the Jungle, and at the time the best NBA and NFL players were making less than 5% of that.

That's a MASSIVE carrot, drawing many of the very best athletes in the world at the time to Boxing. Arum isn't just making some random hypothetical assertion about Lebron's potential as a fighter. He's drawing attention to the fact that there was a time when a guy like Lebron would have almost certainly at least considered becoming a fighter.

That option doesn't even cross the mind of most of today's top athletes. Why would it?

(On a side note, fight fans should also think about this dynamic when they talk shit about how today's fighters are superior to the fighters of the 60s and 70s. Athletically, none of these guys can hold a candle to guys like Ali and Foreman. Considering the reward differential between boxing and other sports at the time, Ali and Foreman were very likely the two best athletes on the planet when they fought. A modern HW prize fighting Champion, whether a boxer or an MMA fighter, likely doesn't even break the top 50-100.)

 

[Magnum1978]

And the same age as mitrione

Fedor is a couple of years old than Mitrione and had well over twice the amount of fights and had been fighting for over a decade longer when they fought. Fedor was out of his prime by the time Mitrione had even started fighting professionally

Worth considering

 

[AngryPorto]

It would depend how he psychologically held up to being hit. Brock Lesnar is an A-level athlete but crumbled every time he got touched. Assuming Lebron had the mentality for it, yeah he would've been something special.