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If Brock Lesnar started training in MMA at a young age, do you think he would be one of the GOATs?

If Brock Lesnar started training in MMA at a young age, do you think he would be one of the GOATs?

  • Yes, in fact he'd be the greatest MMA fighter.

    Votes: 64 13.4%

  • Yes, he'd be considered one of the GOATs of MMA.

    Votes: 175 36.8%

  • No, but he would be better than he was, although he would not be one of the GOATs.

    Votes: 142 29.8%

  • No, it wouldn't make a difference, his results will be virtually the same.

    Votes: 34 7.1%

  • I have no idea.

    Votes: 25 5.3%

  • I literally don't care.

    Votes: 33 6.9%

  • If he trained MMA at a young age, he would have done worse.

    Votes: 3 0.6%
  • Total voters
    476
Vayn Sword said:
DC had some nasty dirty boxing. He KOd Stipe dead. Ofc, Lesners a much better wrestler than Stipe, but still...
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DCs dirty boxing is very good yes but im sure they would have a gameplan against that so he wouldnt be able to use it. I think brock would take him down and manhandle him.
 
mmacanada said:
What if he wasn't allowed to fight on juice because every time Brock fought he was roided to the gills Coleman esque they even let him fight roided up when usada came along
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Cant use thar narrative when nearly whole pride roster was on gear, all the goats of the sport have been too. Name the best clean fighter of all time
 
Lol people saying he would have been the same have no idea what a couple more years would do for a beginner/inexperienced fighter.
 
Ancient Warrior said:
Which doesn’t mean anything.
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For those who have shitty genetics like tim sylvia and barnett but guys like brock will get ripped, then of course there are different kinds of PEDs but even supplements at gym stores are performance enhancing so.
 
This is a pretty stupid question

Would someone be better if they had more experience practicing at an earlier age?

For real?
 
Nope the dude lacks heart and isn't comfortable with getting hit - you either got it or you don't.

Brock isn't a fighter and competitor as much as he is a performer.
 
Brock fights were just sheer awesome. Guy brought the crowd and intensity. The ri g shook when fought. I'll take that any day.
 
RichardHarrow said:
Nope the dude lacks heart and isn't comfortable with getting hit - you either got it or you don't.

Brock isn't a fighter and competitor as much as he is a performer.
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If he lacked heart,he'd have never got through that Carwin fight.
 
mattfin said:
Kevin Randleman had all the same gifts, except even more so, and yet he never came close to the GOAT discussion. Brock would have definitely been a better fighter if he started training for MMA earlier, but it's ridiculous to think he'd be a GOAT contender based on physical gifts alone.
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Big difference in specimens. One is 6'3 300lbs in his prime compared to 5'10, 230 Kevin Randleman?
 
HHJ said:
If he lacked heart,he'd have never got through that Carwin fight.
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True but he certainly wasn't consistent with that display. The guy isn't comfortable with getting hit and that's not a mark of a successful fighter.
 
His problem was the whole getting hit. He designed his training camp and his training partners/employees were not allowed to punch him in the face. Clearly this is a mental block that he simply refused to overcome and he had enough resources to design a training camp to avoid confronting this flaw.


Physically he could have been goat but problem is, physically there are tons of people that can be goats but never make it. You see it in regular training with some super athlete who refuses to develop proper skills or foundation. Or they may have decent technique but don't flow well and are stiff and robotic despite having the physical gifts.

Meanwhile for guys like Fedor and Penn, fighting seemed natural. Hell even old school Karo Parisyan came in bad shape but when he fought, it came off natural as oppose to stiff.


Gokor fought a super athlete and he won because when he was fighting, his moves came of smooth and natural:

 
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