It pays worse than MMA.
It pays worse than MMA.
Hmm disagree, mma has a higher top but lower average.
Gane would die. Ubereem would walk him down. You can’t compare a bush level mauy thai champ to a k1 conqueror, that’s just wrong manGane might not be more accomplished than Overeem, but he's a legit undefeated Muay Thai fighter. Those tin belts don't mean as much as people think. I'd put Gane up against a prime Overeem in a kickboxing match any day of the week.
Cro Cop sleeps all these fools
Gane would die. Ubereem would walk him down. You can’t compare a bush level mauy thai champ to a k1 conqueror, that’s just wrong man
No. Because you’re forgetting one thing :Yes, the sport generally evolves, and the talent overall improves in time. But from this people conclude that every division now is necessarily composed of superior talent than before. That is not always the case.
HW is the paradigm example of that. Lots of people went ahead to claim that guys like Gane, Volkov, Tuivasa, Blaydes, Almeida and Lewis are "next generation talent". In truth, the HW division is in a pretty dismal shape, worse than I can remember it being since the Tim Sylvia days, and certainly a lot worse than after the Strikeforce and Pride acquisitions.
Nothing Volkov does Semmy Schilt did not do better; nothing Tuivasa does did Mark Hunt not do better. Almeida does nothing we haven't seen from guys like Arona, Filho, or Werdum.
Guys like Cyril Gane, who is not even a particularly accomplished kickboxer, is seen to be somehow superior to people like Overeem, Schilt, or Mirko, who were far more accomplished.
This is a factor too. A young Fedor, Mirko, Randy (and he was for a while) Big Nog, Arvloski would all be LHW today. Late career I can see them moving up to HW. But 2000-2008 them all would cut to LHW today. OWGP Mirko weighed in less than Poatans fight weight apparently is.Weight cutting is a big reason for that. Some fighters like Poatan can fight at MW while 20 years ago they would have been HW fighters.
Imagine Jones, Alex, Jiri, younger Glover, Reyes, prime Gus… fighting at HW.
Reem knocked out 5 time world muay thai champion Peter Aerts. Congrats to Gane for going undefeated in the local french muay thai circuit... the hell is wrong with you people lolGane might not be more accomplished than Overeem, but he's a legit undefeated Muay Thai fighter. Those tin belts don't mean as much as people think. I'd put Gane up against a prime Overeem in a kickboxing match any day of the week.
Reem only lost to big foot after blowing his own wand trying to finish him. Gane ain’t overcoming that punishment in the first place.HW muay thai is a joke but K1 was pretty shallow even then to be fair. Plus Reem was getting KTFO by slow as fuck Bigfoot not all that long after he won that K1 GP. It’s not like he was untouchable. He'd have the power edge but Gane is quicker and much more technically skilled.