R.I.P. Danny Hodge

[Kforcer]

Fine, but in all my years around combat sports all I've really seen is a lot of I and Me. I was the first to open this I started that. I understand that this gentleman is not saying that but I'm kinda tired of hearing such ego in the sport. What they all really want to say is I'm the only one and no one else is shit, which just isn't true.

You kind of picked a funny time to express this, in a thread talking about the death of a legend who literally accomplished things nobody else has.

What you're talking about doesn't really apply to Danny Hodge anyways, I don't think. He is just a really, really, really accomplished combat athlete who legitimately did things nobody else has ever done.

 

[mozfonky]

You kind of picked a funny time to express this, in a thread talking about the death of a legend who literally accomplished things nobody else has.

What you're talking about doesn't really apply to Danny Hodge anyways, I don't think. He is just a really, really, really accomplished combat athlete who legitimately did things nobody else has ever done.

Well sorry. I never heard of him and gene labelle, joe lewis etc. All say the same thing. It loses the novelty after years of hearing it. Be nice if people could just share some credit with the rest of humanity for a change. I wont say anymore because you guys are hurt and I'll respect that.

 

[Kforcer]

Well sorry. I never heard of him and gene labelle, joe lewis etc. All say the same thing. It loses the novelty after years of hearing it. Be nice if people could just share some credit with the rest of humanity for a change. I wont say anymore because you guys are hurt and I'll respect that.

I've talked to you enough on here to see you are a reasonable guy. It doesn't matter what Joe Lewis, Gene LeBelle, etc., say as far as Danny Hodge's accomplishments. They speak for themselves. I think you are getting hung up on a few people saying he was "cross-training when nobody else was" or things of that nature. Of course people were cross-training since time immemorial.

But Danny Hodge is one of the most accomplishment athletes to step on the mat and the only person to be an NCAA champion and a national amateur boxing champion, as well as the only person to go unbeaten in amateur boxing and scholastic wrestling. He's the only guy to do a lot of things. Those aren't claims. Those are accomplishments. There's a big difference.

You're putting something on Hodge that just doesn't apply to him.

 

[Kforcer]

I wont say anymore because you guys are hurt and I'll respect that.

I do appreciate that, but you've really got him twisted. You're taking him as a martial artist who is claiming to be a pioneer of this or that, versus a guy who accomplished feats which have yet to be matched and will still stand out even if they are.

 

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[Deleted member 278323]

I don't think i have either, a million people claim to be the first this or that...

For the record; nobody in this thread is claiming that Hodge was the first anything at all. Just that he was extremely accomplished. I think you are attacking a position that nobody has taken.