Is Kayla Harrison pound for pound as strong as men in UFC?

[PaulieVegas27]

Just stop it already, Jesus.

What's next, Ronda Rousey knocks out male boxers?

 

[haj02]

A 170 pound man with a black belt in Judo taking on Kayla who's also 170 pounds and has two gold medals in Judo?
I'd bet on Kayla.
I'd bet a lot on Kayla.

You'd lose, amateur men are better than world champion women at combat sports. It's pretty much true across most sports but nowhere is it truer than combat sports.

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

No. Put her in against some of the top dudes at her weight class, and she would get hurt, bad.

Kris Moutinho would knock her out in the 1st

 

[koa pomaikai]

Any type of labor work is going to produce freak strength. It explains why someone like Ngannou has crazy strength.

Ngannou is a poor example though. His muscles are frigging huge. He doesn’t exactly have a farm boy body.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Here we go, I was worried this would happen. Lets turn the clock back to Ronda would beat Cain Velasquez

Give it at least 1 title defense against the scrubs and it will be "Kayla could beat DDP" I can see it all coming a mile off

 

[GearSolidMetal]

You'd lose, amateur men are better than world champion women at combat sports. It's pretty much true across most sports but nowhere is it truer than combat sports.

'You'd lose.'
Arrogantly dismissive.
Just like with BJJ black belts in Judo have a sketchy record of quality.
18 years old tells me he's had minimal experience probably against regional fighters.
He'd have a strength advantage, and that's it.

 

[woloo]

Yes, she is certainly stronger than the lighter guys.

You are one of the few people that makes sense. I think Kayla is at least stronger than the UFC guys who weigh 125 pounds or less.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

OP asked if she's stronger than other professional male UFC athletes. The answer is no. Go grapple with a female in your local mcdojo. You'll probably laugh

 

[Söze Aldo]

You are one of the few people that makes sense. I think Kayla is at least stronger than the UFC guys who weigh 125 pounds or less.

If she grappled one of the lower ranked 125 guys I do think she'd have decent odds.

She's heavily muscled and has like 20+ years of high level grappling competition, which builds its own type of strength.

Her issue would be dealing with their striking and possibly getting clipped and KOd.

Men, have big advantages in taking strikes (less concussion prone than women) and also in the force they can put into a punch.

 

[BigMuffler]

Pound for Pound? Did you have 1 biology class or ever watched sports?
No amount of Costa's secret juice gets her even close to a man P4PT

Let's say she rehydrates to somewhere 155.
I'd say a male UFC fighter from 125 rehydrating to 140 is way stronger.


Weight lifting
135 pound men: Total 318kg
141 pound women: Total 264kg

That gap is actually smaller than people act like, but in terms of upper body strength there would be a bigger difference.

 

[Sticko]

'You'd lose.'
Arrogantly dismissive.
Just like with BJJ black belts in Judo have a sketchy record of quality.
18 years old tells me he's had minimal experience probably against regional fighters.
He'd have a strength advantage, and that's it.

Random boys' high school soccer teams have played exhibitions against the women's senior national team and won.

The athleticism difference is massive. A random 170-lb male judo black belt who trains and competes in regional tournaments would most likely beat Kayla.

 

[CorninginChristianburg]

Nevermind the ragebait gender angle.

I hate when people ask "would X fighter beat X fighter in a pound for pound fight." There's no such thing as a pound for pound fight in real life. In real life, you are what you weigh and you fight against people who weigh what they weigh.

Merab would get destroyed by basically every MW on the UFC roster, and I say that as a big Merab fan, because there's no such thing as a "pound for pound" fight.

Would Kayla beat men of the same weight is a different question. And, well, not one that we have to speculate much on.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Random boys' high school soccer teams have played exhibitions against the women's senior national team and won.

Yup, very aware of that.
Combat sports is completely different than soccer.

The athleticism difference is massive. A random 170-lb male judo black belt who trains and competes in regional tournaments would most likely beat Kayla.

And theoretically this should be impossible.

 

[NoSmilez]

She can probably beat up an influencer that isn't much bigger than her. She isn't beating male fighters in a fight. She kills out of shape dads who been in over 100 street fights. Those dudes can't even make it past the warm up.

 

[TITS]

You are one of the few people that makes sense. I think Kayla is at least stronger than the UFC guys who weigh 125 pounds or less.

There are no UFC guys who weigh 125 pounds or less. You've been schooled already on this subject in your Diamond Adams thread, where you exhaustively tried to make the same arguments about Kayla, Amanda, ect. vs male flyweights. You got told, and your thread got wastelanded.

 

[BigMuffler]

She can probably beat up an influencer that isn't much bigger than her. She isn't beating male fighters in a fight. She kills out of shape dads who been in over 100 street fights. Those dudes can't even make it past the warm up.

If the dads have actually been in a lot of street fights, they would probably beat up the average influencer.

 

[HuskySamoan]

No. Put her in against some of the top dudes at her weight class, and she would get hurt, bad.

Put her in vs random IMMAF guys in her weight class and she gets fragged

 

[jko1355]

If you are trying to compare men and women on steroids just look up what trans women have done in power lifting

 

[jko1355]

Kris Moutinho would knock her out in the 1st

I’d go further Cody McKenzie would tap her in a minute.

I’ll go further she could not cut weight come in at any weight and Cody McKenzie could have to weigh in at 145 and he’d tap her in a minute

 

[jko1355]

First, Kayla trains for 5 rounds. The vast majority of men would gas out in the first round against her.

Second, she's stronger than the vast majority of men, especially when compared to men around her weight.

Thirds, she trains twice a day. Most men who do exercise do so a few times a week.
She's not only a UFC champion she's a two-time gold medalist.

As for if she's comparable to men in UFC's lower weight classes.... Probably not. There may be a few no-namers outside the Top15 she'd be a challenge for but there's a reason why men fight men and women fight women.

I haven’t trained since I was 23 I’m 36.. 183 lbs 5 ft 10-11 . Work out a couple times a week.. it would be humiliating how bad I’d beat her… stop white knighting… you don’t know what you are talking about. I tapped black belt pro females as a white belt… you really don’t get it 6 months training on a male that is athletic beats every pro female of all time