Natural born fighters ?

[trident]

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[kumitechamp]

Anybody that stands up for themselves. The business owners the people that go to work with a purpose of more than a week to week check. A parent that doesnt abandon their kid. Anybody that doesnt quit and doesnt give up for me thats a natural born fighter. A crippled kid with low self esteem can be a hell of a natural born fighter in my opinion if they wake up every day with a purpose living life on their own terms.

 

[UkraineFreightTrain]

and Germaine is stiffer competition than the tomato can she's matched up with for her next fight. Do you see the pattern? Cris isn't interested in fighting anybody legit since Baars clowned her back on March 28, 2014.

She showed the heart of a champion in that fight, and she also showed that she's not afraid to take on the scariest female muay thai practitioner in the world. With Rousey say she can beat the best BJJ players at their own sport and Conor saying he'd beat Floyd boxing.. atleast Cyborg is actually showing up

BTW Leslie Smith is just as formidable an opponent as De Randamie and she lasted all of 90 seconds

 

[War Pig]

She showed the heart of a champion in that fight, and she also showed that she's not afraid to take on the scariest female muay thai practitioner in the world. With Rousey say she can beat the best BJJ players at their own sport and Conor saying he'd beat Floyd boxing.. atleast Cyborg is actually showing up

BTW Leslie Smith is just as formidable an opponent as De Randamie and she lasted all of 90 seconds

1. She risked nothing by taking a fight with Baars. If she had won she would have been all over social media proclaiming how she's the best Muay Thai fighter of all time. She lost though and hasn't uttered a word about the fight since and hasn't taken another Muay Thai fight either. Most people don't even know she fought Baars and that's the way Cyborg wants it.

2. A true champion would drop 3 lbs instead of trying to shame fighters she outweighs by 30 lbs into moving up to accommodate her size advantage. More importantly, a true champion doesn't hide in a weak division by choice and beat up cans while juiced to the gills.

3. Leslie Smith is a blown up 125 can. Cyborg outweighed her by 25 lbs on fight night. That's not challenging herself. It's embarrassing herself. There was no reason to take that fight. Leslie Smith wasn't a contender or on a winning streak. It wasn't a grudge match. It was just 165 lb Cyborg crushing a 139 lb can.

4. Watch a Cyborg fight. When her name is announced she lists herself as a Muay Thai fighter. That's what she identifies herself as so fighting Baars is not some amazing thing. It wasn't Cyborg's first Muay Thai fight. Cyborg has been training Muay Thai her entire fighting career. The equivalent would be Ronda having a judo match, since she identifies herself as a judoka. I would bet money Ronda would fare better against a world class judoka than Cyborg did against Baars in the shallow, niche sport of female Muay Thai. Cyborg is seriously delusional about her skill level because people have been kissing her ass for so long and telling her how great she is based on can crushing. The truth is her striking is horrible, she has no balance and she's not fluid in her movements and that's why despite all her size and bulk she's never knocked someone out clean with a punch. She has no technique. It's all barroom brawling and throwing everything with max power. If she takes up Braekus's challenge to box her you'll see what I'm talking about. I suspect she'll dodge the fight though because Baars mentally broke her back in 2014 and since then she's been very selective in who she fights.

5. Ronda has competed in 2 weight classes in judo and mma and excelled in both without using steroids. Cyborg started off as a 135er in mma and lost, got on steroids and has been avoiding the division ever since. Ronda challenged herself against bigger opponents in 2 sports. Cyborg won't even lose 3 lbs for fear those 3 lbs will hurt her performance.

 

[MCS]

Someone posted a while back that certain fighters love training and hate fighting, while those blood & guts warriors love fighting more than training. Thought that viewpoint was pretty good. Of course there are exceptions like Nick Diaz who's consistently said year after year that he hates fighting, but it doesn't show.

Those natural fighters often don't gameplan but go in there and improvise. Penn & Saku used to do that. Chuck past some early fights, too. The athlete fighter tends to need to have a gameplan.

 

[Sleepdancer]

Diaz brothers, Lawler, Tim Means, Matt Brown, Jeremy Stephens. They just have that edge that makes me think they were born to fight.