Why size and strength matter in MMA 

I'm 6'5" and 230. My first ever day in jiujitsu I had dudes who were 150 soaking wet straight up ragdolling me. Size become an insurmountable obstacle when the guy with size at least kinda knows how to fight. Before that point, it means WAY less than people think.

I'm a 165lb purple belt in jiujitsu. I experience first hand the difference between big and athletic. I have rolled with 220-230lb dudes that felt not that much stronger than me. I'm sure they could bench more but on the mats...didn't really feel it. Then there are these athletic big dudes that are a whole different story. I rolled with a guy that played for the Naval Academy football team. I couldn't sweep him, couldn't take him down. The ole trusty armbar from guard is what I could get to work. Didn't stop me from thinking about how much trouble I'd be in if he was throwing bombs down at me. After a month of training, I couldn't submit him anymore with anything except sneaky heelhooks. Big, strong, AND athletic matters. The disparity in our physical abilities meant he only needed 1 month of training to nullify my 5 years lmao. I'm scared what he'll be like 5 years

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There's a difference between a bodybuilder and a strongman, which smaller mma fighters are often compared to. I think a strongman would be much more dangerous than a bodybuilder.

Honestly bro been watching mma since I realised wwe was fake , been watching the RU-vidrs for years and you are such a breath of fresh air , actual understanding of the sport is soooo missing from the mma RU-vid scene , yourself Weasle and the guru are the only ones doing it for me 👏🏻👏🏻

This "it's hard to convince people that the one on the right will defeat the one on the left." comparisons are stupid because you are comparing a fighter to someone who can't fight. But if both can fight, it doesn't work at all and strength and weight are very important. There is no way that a Khabib or a McGregor, for example, can beat Overeem, even if they have much better skills.

the martial artist vs "body builder" videos online are such a waste of time. I can only assume they are taken seriously by people who have never set foot in a cage or stepped on a matt.

As a 6'7 230lbs lean guy, the lil guys in the MMA gym DID take me in the beginning when i had absolutely no experience, but that gap closed pretty quickly and i gotta admit that's literally just because i was so much bigger and stronger than them. With absolutely no technique, yeah i couldn't do much. But pretty basic technique allowed me to get past most things the short n skinny guys could throw at me. Talking mostly ground game now cuz when it came to striking we'd never do hard sparring between heavyweights n lightweights for obvious reasons Also wanna mention that the guys i went up against of course weren't UFC calibre fighters. Just that they were waaaaay better than me. Just absolutely outclassed me technique wise and if i was their size i would never stand a chance. But the size really let me just pass that gap

0:53 Nate is wiser than people give him credit for. This was really next level when he said it bc people were so convinced Conor was the second coming

As a 150 lb guy, a bigger guy with no fighting experience and who has never played sports is pretty easy work in every rule set (street included), but if they grab me i have to be careful and if i end up on my back i can’t make a single mistake. Train them for 6 months and it’s a different story. If they played sports it’s harder. If you train them for 3 months and we get in a street fight it’s a coin toss on whether I’m screwed or not, but i can probably stay out of the hospital. I know a guy who is a flyweight that can beat huge guys but the way he does it is calf kicks, head kicks, and heel hooks. Maybe an rnc if he exhausts them. Cardio is the best friend of small guys going against untrained big guys, but it takes a big guy so much less time training to be dangerous than it does a small guy.

I know dudes who would fold the tren twins like a towel 🤣 also, no one ever talks about the guy who's 220 lb who's a black belt. We all like to talk about the small guy versus the big guy, but what about when? The big guy is a black belt and knows how to move and uses weight

I think the answer to this argument is very simple, but fighters either don’t understand it or don’t want to acknowledge it. Skill beats size until size learns skill or size is just too much.

I agree with everything u said except Izzy being a small MW. Adesanya is not a small MW whatsover. He's a medium to slightly big sized MW. In MW, only Gastelum and Whittaker are the small ones. Everyone else is good to big for MW.

I've practiced combat sports and martial arts (taekwondo-Bjj-sambo-muay thai) since 20 years, I am now 32yo and currently 154 lb . That said I have spent 15 of those 20 years between 116lb and 132lb. I remember rolling in sambo (at 116lb) with guys a lot taller and heavier , I could handle them when they lacked technique but when it came to guys above 165lb with knowledge and athletics, I couldn't finish them most of the time, sometimes I got wrecked. That said you can have "happy" accidents. Rear naked choke worked better on big guys and I knocked out a 198lb with a kick while I was 116lb (my achilles heel was hurting from hitting his thick skull so hard). Two years ago in muay thaï, I played with a 264 lb athletic guy, but he didn't really knew how to box. So my conclusion would be that size matters most when it's coupled with technique. I'd say that in a street fight if you're a lightweight , the worst thing is to be in a closed environment with someone who knows wrestling. Gotta be very sneaky if that happens.

To put it simple in one paragraph. Size and strength don’t matter up until the point where skill and experience come into play. Small skillful experienced fighter can beat a bigger opponent when the big guy doesn’t know how to fight and lacks experience. Small experienced fighter has very slim chances at beating a bigger opponent with the same experience and skill he does. Size and weight are super important factors when the bigger guys has experience and practice. Even if he’s not insanely good, and his skills are just amateur or rookie at best it’s still enough to make him a huge threat to a smaller and lighter fighter, and even more so if the bigger guy is not just big and strong but extremely athletic.

When I signed up for a charity MMA event, the room was split in half in terms of weight. I can say with confidence that the lighter side of the room was much easier to deal with for the most part. Some of the bigger guys were easy to catch off guard but that was based off a lack of knowledge as well as the rules being against them. In reality they could slam or strike. Rolling with a bodybuilder was a really interesting experience though. This guy was huge, he's about 6'4, 250lb against my 5'9, 170lb so quite the difference. I basically survived until a lucky opportunity allowed me to get top position, then I kept control until he eventually tapped from exhaustion. It was basically a battle of cardio and he had next to zero and didn't know any submissions! If a guy that size has cardio and skills, with no rules.... you're pretty fucked! Having said that, I can see DJ being able to at least survive against that dude long enough to gas him out 🤞

Lets put it this way.....gsp or khabib who are lighter than bodybuilders....can destroy any bodybuilder on this planet

Kinda loses some credibility when you said Conor beat the Mountain. The Mountain would have totally destroyed Conor if they both went all out there.

Yeah it all matters size, strength, height, width, length of one’s limbs all that. In my experience grappling with inexperienced guys my size it’s easy cause they lack the wisdom of technique & just simply grip tightly plus get all stiff with their muscle. In their minds that’s strength. With bigger guys it’s little of the same but the biggest factor with them is cardio. They waist a lot of energy by just doing none meaningful things like squeezing tightly. Point is a bigger person that knows a little is dangerous

I’m not worried for DJ. Bro truth be told, most people do not understand positioning or how gravity effects their weight, bad balance, don’t know how to fall. No shot this guy has any idea how to defend a blast double.

There is a difference between big dudes and big strong athletic dudes who can fight. The latter will fold most smaller guys. This is the irony in boxing and MMA, they generaly don't lift weights because they don't wanna be "muscle bound" but their regimens produces muscular dudes and they want their heavyweights big.

A 165 division would be dope, and 175 for welterweight

I think there’s a difference between strength and athleticism, I’m a very athletic guy when I started mma it gave me a head start on most guys but if your just lifting weights and don’t have any athletic technique whatsoever then the size doesn’t really matter at times

Honestly I think Bradley wouldn’t do shit against a roided DJ in a street fight with a ground of concrete

Alex pereira sparring on a hoverboard is my favorite mma clip of all time

There is a big difference between a muscular bodybuilder like bradley and a muscular fighter francis🗿

3:00 the joy on the dudes face as he watches his buddy tryin to remove the tape frkm his back never gets old 🤣👌

you r right. I'm pro boxer. and i sparring with people double size of me in boxing class. i tell them go 100%. they laughing in the beginning and after 2 minutes i can knock them out if i want. size doesn't matter only if with big skill difference

If you put me in a street fight against somebody smaller than me with no training, I think I find a route to victory regardless, whether I need to grapple or throw hands or both. But a smaller professionally trained fighter would absolutely beat my ass. And I think most of us can understand we lose to a MMA fighter. Bradley is a big dude who has connections, and has more “training” than I do just by playing with a belted BJJ grappler. And that’s true for at a decent % of fans, so I am hoping this sparring session happens so I can be humbled even farther.

In a croatian podcast Mirko crocop said that he doesnt like the smaller weights cause flyweight guy is pfp number 1 but he would still get his ass kicked from 30 out of 30 bouncers

I call cap on Bradley dunking on a 11 foot goal 😂. He don’t seem as tall as he says and he’d have to jump well over 40 inches for that. Not impossible but unlikely. Especially for a guy who doesn’t train explosive movements

I've been training bjj for abt a year. When i first went into my gym i was already friends with abt 5 people there from a previous friend group we were all in, and they were the ones who got me into it. One of these guys was a 14 year old kid who weighed 120 pounds max, and i was 220 and a couple years older. And he absolutely destroyed me in mma sparring that day. pinned me down and controlled me without exerting any effort at all. and because of that, seeing how easily someone so much smaller could dominate me made me want to learn bjj so badly cus i saw how effective it was.

Honestly I agree we push 70 to 75 and there’s your new division 65 and 75

Size and strength matters. Size as both your weight and bone density, and how tall you are and how long your arms and legs are But, I'd say, for MMA, there's this hierarchy: actual martial art skill, endurance, speed, size, strength. In grappling and wrestling strength matter more, in strikibg strength pretty much doesn't matter.

Technique is an effective use of strength it can literally multiply your strength however if the strength difference is great and the bodybuilder knows the basics he have a good chance Just let them learn the basics of fighting and it's a different story

Doing BJJ taught me that the best route is strength and technique. Both matter and both will only get you so far.

I would generally bet on the massive (6'+, 220lb+) athlete over a smaller flyweight or bantamweight opponent IF....and I seriously mean IF... they had at least 1-2 years of solid striking/grappling training with a genuinely good coach... Because if a large athlete has acquired the basics & fundamentals of fighting then the smaller guy (even a black belt) could potentially be in for a rude awakening. You know how hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard? Thats often true! But sometimes talent only has to work half as hard to beat a genetically disadvantaged opponent.

Well it depends. We all know how big dudes are being destroyed by way smaller dudes. Example: Fedor destroying big guys, Brock Lesnar who lost to submission etc. It all comes to experience, fightings style, mood, and of course chemistry. In general I do agree with you that mass has value, but mass itself(even if it is clean one) is not enough. It is exactly like car engine. You may have big V8, but if you do not have proper traction, handling, transmission - you will lose the race. I am not MMA dude, but I spend a lot of time training different arts, from BJJ to Muai Thai, and what I can say, you should find optimum correlation. I know dudes those can punch concrete wall with full force. No matter how big you are, your face will suffer. To be fast, to be strong, and to be elastic. Keep in mind, big mass requires more oxygen, and If you keep for 1-2 minutes, big guys will lost. Example: Tank Abbott. Plus also consider bones - it is not enough to have big muscles, you should also focus on your core. If I break your leg by kick, or submission, cut your face by elbow, you are as good as dead, because your mass will be an issue for you, and opening for opponent. Try not size, but functionality. Cat of the same size, will always beat a dog.

Good point separating striking and grappling. Striking size does matter that is why boxing has weight classes. But at around the 200lb mark any man can KO any other man regardless of size. The body's ability to take a punch doesn't' grow proportional to size. My father was a old school fighter who boxed back when it was still a college sport. He called HW two eggs fighting with hammers because of the difference between the bodies ability to punch relative to the nervous systems ability to take a punch. Now grappling is a whole different animal. There is no limit. The example I always give is Brock Lesner. Watch his NCAA film. It's not some example of skill. It like watching a dad wrestling his kid in the living room. It takes a Kurt Angle v. Brock Lesner skill disparity to overcome that strength disparity. And even then Angle is a legit 210.

Have so many thoughts on this. Have fought bigger fighters and found them weak. Have had novice big guys punch me and it was hilarious. That said, watch videos of bodybuilders roll with black belt BJJ guys and the BJJ guy always wins, but it's never that easy. Huge skill, years learning and it's still work to beat a novice when the novice is made of steel. In terms of the street there is definitely a part of self defence which is just looking like someone people wouldn't see as an easy target and in that case bodybuilders have an obvious advantage.

Im so happy to see people are waking up size and strength are the defined traits for victory. Especially if they have that functional strength on lock

I’d put a skilled fighter against a bodybuilder any day. Every skilled fighter I’ve ever known defeats the non martial artist. Occasionally, you might get an anomaly come out of nowhere, but even they stumble against martial artists.

There’s a priority of what is important in a fighter Skill>Speed>Strength>Size Skill is the most important attribute. It can be overcome, but you need a massive disparity in Speed or Strength to do that.

I'll never forget when me, as a 200 lb striker, rolled for the first time with my 135 lb BJJ black belt instructor. Let's just say his knee on belly made me tap 😂 There's definitely a crossover tho where my strength really mattered - mostly low-mid tier dudes in the 180 or less weight range.

It’s funny to me because most of the time the comparison is a large fit guy who hasn’t trained a fight in a day of his life vs a small guy who has been professionally training his entire life. There’s never a comparison on a guy who trains as a side hobby 2 or 3 times a week while juggling other real life responsibilities, you know, the average guy who dabbles a bit in martial arts. That speaks volumes of how dumb the argument is because it should be pretty obvious that a larger, stronger, and more athletic guy will whoop the other any day of the week.

The key is to have the best of both worlds, like Alexander Karelin: athletic & muscular, yet very skilled in martial arts (greco roman wrestling in his case).

Not a single person with a brain cell doesn't think strength and size matter, especially when two similar skilled opponents fight. DJ and the RU-vidr is a lot different lol

I think us in the MMA community is understating how many bodybuilder are athletic, most body builders are former athletes from wrestling , football or rugby that’s how they got into lifting it’s only a select few that’s only about lifting and aesthetics

Lotta small guys here very insecure. No matter how good you are a 400lb strongman will beat a 150lb man in a street fight. Ju-jitsu is not a real fight. And even most top Bjj guys will admit there is a limit where size doe take its toll. Bradley on the other hand is not strong or explosive nor athletic like a strongman athlete. So he’s still delusional

I got best up in a kickboxing match while out weighing the guy by 20 kgs which is kirk 50 pounds? I was a big powerlifter 90 killos and had started kickboxing for 3 months at the time and this small 155er comes and just dominated me for 3 rounds lmao speed and technique are more important than anything Since then I switched to mma and I can beat guys who are bigger than me but have less skill Size absolutely matters but its less than people think skill is always always more important

It's simple. If Bradley manages to slam DJ in the octagon, but still loses, then we can conclude he would've cracked DJ's skull in a proper streetfight.

Ok, why do you people extend the size and strength argument only to striking? Submissions wont work either cause Bradley can just rip Demetrious Johnson's grip or pick him up and slam him.

To be clear, McGregor didn't spar with the Mountain "in the street" or even in a scenario anywhere close to it. A gym that size with an even, level mat is not a typical setting.

If a skilled Heavyweight MMA fighter beats a lightweight skilled MMA fighter, The heavyweight didn't win because he was a better fighter, he won because he was just bigger. That's why they have weight classes in MMA and boxing etc. Size matters. It's not impossible for a smaller guy to beat a bigger guy in a fight, It does happen. and a skilled little guy will have no problem taking down a big guy if the big guy has no fighting skills. but generally speaking, a skilled big guy will always beat a skilled little guy.

You must not been in a fight. DJ would lose to a much heavier and taller opponent. No matter how skill DJ is. You're not factoring in the heavier opponents ability to adsorb the strikes of the smaller opponent. I didn't understand this until i was booked to fight a much heaver opponent who walk through my spinning kicks like it wasn't nothing. no opponent has done that before him.. I betted Conor would lose to Diaz with that knowledge and won. that guy was only 20 pounds heavier. The scenario you proposed was an extreme differences in height, weight, and, strength. DJ strike will feel like cotton balls to a man that size and Dj could block a strike from that guy and still be knocked across the ring. Remember when Francis would go around letting professional fighters/boxers hit him in the stomach while he stands there. That what I'm talking about. If you punch an elephant full power 100x that elephant will think an ant bite him.

You know what, Bears don't know Jui-Jitzu, but i guarantee you any guy who tries to grapple an angry one would get destroyed

Honestly as I'm also quite a big guy compared to most people, when I hear people who are 1.60m or 1.70m tall and weigh 50kg wet say they can beat me with their experience in fighting i always laugh, the only thing i need to do is throw a punch or kick and the challenge is over, and i have only been doing boxing for only like 2 Months

This question is already answered in - Sumo wrestling! In sumo, there is no weight limit, and no downside to being as big as possible. You have 250lb people considered “small” going up against 600 lb people. While the bigger guys win more, the small guys win a good share, and the biggest sumos of all time are not the best all time. So while all things begging equal size is important - things are not equal, and skill is not equal.

Probably the best video on why Leon Edwards has the most aesthetic physique.

Size means way less when the smaller guy has far more skill than the larger person. Yes, size matters but ONLY if both individuals are close or equal in skill. Plus I don’t think that being in a street fight would change anything for Mighty Mouse against Bradley. Because even if he could just pick up and slam him, Mighty Mouse isn’t going to get KO’d that easily. He is very well-conditioned and he wouldn’t allow that to happen anyway. Because all he has to do is tackle Bradley and then get him in a ground game. It’s over. Street fight or not, it doesn’t affect the skill level of a fighter. All it does is add more benefits to the more skilled fighter because that means he can play dirty too. Skill will always be the dominant factor in fighting and nothing will change that. And yes, even in striking, being just heavier, doesn’t make you more durable. Eddie Hall was asked to take a kick from a 9-year-old kid who did Muay Thai. And the kid landed a solid kick on his leg, and Eddie screamed curse words and hopped on one foot in pain. No joke. Look it up. To end this comment off, when it comes to close or equally skilled fighters, size is king. BUT when it comes to fighting in general, skill is the TRUE king. And it always will be.

It isnt exactly strength that matters. You need the right kind of strength. Punching power obviously. Wrestling move strength too

It's like between military forces: a big powerful but untrained and inexperienced military will probably lose against a much smaller and weaker but well trained and experienced military force but if the big and powerful military force is well trained and experienced too, then the smaller military will be probably pulverized.

DJ will smoke Bradley 😂 Brad will tire out then get choked out

Khabib taught him about strength

Imagine how terrifying Lebron would be if he actually decided to learn how to fight

DJ vs Bradley on concrete: Bradley presses forward trying to grab DJ, then DJ lands an inside leg kick to throw off Bradley's balance, or make him reach for the leg. Then DJ would throw a feint up high then go for a single leg. (single leg so he doesn't get Batista bombed) Then Bradley won't know what to do on the ground, he'd try to muscle DJ off him or just stand up, either of which would open him up for a submission.

Technically not all street fights are on concrete admittedly I live out in the country and perhaps their not technically street fights but I’ve seen plenty of fights on the grass and on dirt roads just my two cents.

Thank you again, MMA Che, I love your unique content style on MMA, and keep it up dude.

When the skills are the same, size does matter. Jones, Miocic, Emelianenko or Ngannou would murder Khabib, McGregor or GSP. I mean why do weight classes exist?

good video as always. For part 1 When it comes to being a complete fighter. It's all about deciding a good training routine that fits you. Now i feel 50 percent of how to be a great fighter is solved, and will be near identical to everyone else, than like 30 - 40 percent will be more focused on what your speciality is, are you a boxer? a kicker? a grappler? then that final 10 percent is what I call "the acessory". Meaning something that is useful, but mainly something only you do. And I feel that final 10 percent is what really defines and makes your style complete. For Connor that final 10 percent was his movement training, and you really did see it's principles fully come to show highlight in his glory days. As for the fall of COnor that's a whole subject on it's own. For part 2 Size vs technique, technique vs size. A big issue here is being 260 IS A huge fucking advantage, that would dwarf many hobby fighters who are in the 140 range. If you are a 140 hobbyiest boxer who trains like twice a weak. No you are not beating someone who is 260. Even if they never train. HOWEVER here is where context really matters. Bradley is a BODY BUILDER. his sport is completely about bulking his muscles as much as humanly possible, while remaining as low body fat as possible. They also put all their training into building muscle, which means they are not working on their flexibility, their cardio is going to be on the low side, and the muscles they do have, they don't even know how to use properly in a combat context. Most body builders are pretty smart, because you have to be to reach that level of size, so I am pretty sure Brad knows this and is doing this whole campaign purely for clout. Unless he's just that fucking stupid, I see no way a body buildng veteran like him isn't aware of the countless health problems a body builder has. And would just die in the cardio match against a mma fighter alone. However if bradley lets say, took a break from body building, put on some healthy fat to around the 15 percent range. Then spent lets say a year no longer body building and putting a lot of focus on boxing or wrestling. Even after only a year, I don't believe anyone in the lighter weight divisions would be able to take him on. Despite him only achieving mediocore technique. So context really matters here when we talk about weight. Bradley will die, especially if he's prepping for a competition or a photoshoot for hes going to be on a diet, low body fat, and at his most vulnerable. But lets re write the script to. "260 body builder who ALSO did wrestling in highschool for all four years, is now getting back in shape and at 15 percent body fat while going on daily jogs". Completely different beast.

Bob Sapp at his peak beat the fuck out of the most decorated K-1 champion in history Ernesto Hoost with just volume of ugly swinging punches. Twice. Sure he suffered a loooot of pain, and not just by Ernesto, but by his own strikes. I believe he broke his hands and got various wear and tear after. But yeah size absolutely matters depending of who we're talking about. That being said, Bradley Martin is not Bob Sapp. If he beats the migty mouse I will stop watching social media all together.

If a guy can flick you around like his child then strength matters. If he can take damage without problem then strength matters.

Reality, that the mma guys avoid, is that professional bodybuilders may not be good fighters, but most, like 99% of big athletic guys who go to gym all yhe time, usually know quite a lot more about sports, boxing etc. Almost noone just does lifting. So imho on average - bigger athletic muscled guy beats smaller mma guy at street fight. Period. Just because you do sports that require learning a lot of punches doesnt mean a guy you oppose cant throw a punch at you. Lol, look at "supermega best striker" Mcgregor eating the most onvious windmill punch from Khabib and losing the match eventually. Khabib cant punch for sh**t, yet the megaboxer mcgregor still ate a match-changing punch. Same goes for mma. You can train your whole life, but underestimate some big guy and he will break your jaw.

It's not a smart move to square up with a dude much bigger than you on the street unless you absolutely had to, and only then do what you got to do to get away. But best option, trained or not, is to find a peaceful way to resolve it. On the street, anything goes if it's a self defense situation.

Bradley got taken down by some wrestler who is 160

i love how some mma fans claim size means nothing. i respond with "yeah, fighters like khabib nearly killed himself cutting 50 pounds every fight because it makes no difference at all. he could have just cut 30-35 pounds to 170 and been just as successful, he just wanted to cut that excessive weight for the hell of it."

With the same technical level, the stronger and bigger one would win

Strength makes anything you learn exponentially more dangerous. Just imagine a guy who is 3x strong as your regular man(not even that big, avg bench rm is 60 kg i can lift 200kg, avg ohp is 30kg i can do 120kg) and then he learns techniques to deal with larger opponents, lighter opponents will have little to do unless theyre pro fighters and the other guy is not.

Funny how size is such an important factor yet heavy weight is 205-265. Meanwhile every other division is 10-15 difference.

Yea but what happens when the 6’4 250lbs dude learns how to wrestle? What say you? Little man.

MMA Che is the greatest UFC fighter of all time… if you take Chael Sonnen out of the equation

I'm always in the side of the fighter but DJ vs Bradly Martin actually has me perplexed. Because however, at the end of the day, I think Bradly is just gonna lay on top of DJ for the whole duration

bodybuilders are unathletic. Do the comparison with Olympic weightlifters, strong men, and powerlifters whose size is far more functional than just aesthetic. They still prolly lose but it's much closer.

Kinda like with Nate Diaz and Jake Paul. Nate Diaz came up, what 20lbs to fight Jake when in retirement in a sport he didn’t do.

What if Bradley just decided to sprint and tackle Devin Haney

They need 135 145 155 165 175 185 & then you can probably do 205 & perhaps heavy weight? Or even split heavy weight between 225 & make the rest over 225

people who say size doesn’t matter that much are absolutely fooling themselves. Of course if you are 150lb college athlete vs a skinny fat 200lb office worker you’re gonna smoke them. But gotta compare apples to apples.

But what if he's 260?

3:15 i wonder if bodybuilding can have any specific benefits to fighting. Maybe the defined muscle can give some kind of protection?

To put it simply, size and strength only matters when both men are UFC fighters and can fight, if one is a martial artist and the other a gym bro that thinks he's tough because he is big the martial artist will destroy the gym bro. People who can't fight will always close their eyes and flinch when punches come at them while a martial artist has sparred thousands of rounds and knows what to do when punches come flying. Also you wanna see Bradley Martyn's fighting ability, look at him hitting someone at a UFC event it's the kind of punch speed people have when they throw punches underwater lol. Not to mention he just wants to use pure strength and ragdoll someone but against someone with bjj background that won't work.

Honestly as an amateur bodybuilder/powerlifter I hold a biased ( 6'1 240). I am an avid fan of the ufc, i have taken courses for BJJ and boxing on and off throughout the years and I do bag work by myself about 3 times a week for only about 15 minutes and I've been in about 10 street fights in my life. That being said I am no where near even an amateur mma fighter but I know more than the average person. What I think many people who train MMA are missing is experience in the world of bodybuilding/weightlifting I don't think they realize how much weaker they are physically than someone who trains in that world. I've rolled with people who have much more experience than me but also much smaller and yes in the long run they will win but for the first 3 minutes my strength, explosion and athleticism is just too much for them with no disrespect it feels sometimes like I am wrestling with a teenage boy. Now I am not even freakishly large or strong im also not on steroids, now imagine someone like Halfthor bjornson or brian shaw the difference in strength and power would be insurmountable for someone like khabib or conor in a street fight. These guys would grab any ufc fighter between 135-180lbs and there is nothing that fighter could do to break their hold or to stop them from picking them up and smashing them into the concrete like a ragdoll. On top a guy like halfthor could literally do a game of thrones eye gouge and no amount of BJJ could stop it or he could literally just grab the head and smash the back of it into the ground repeatedly with a level of power that is insane. In a "no rules" street fight it becomes very interesting because their strength would allow them to a lot of damage from a top position that you can't do in the UFC and they most likely will be able to secure a top position at the beginning of any fight just because of size and strength. Think of all the ways you could hurt/kill someone from mount that you can't do in the ufc like strangling them, breaking their windpipe, gouging their eyes, smashing their head into the ground, grabbing your fingers and snapping them leaving you basically useless. etc.. The UFC should just make these freakshow fights happen just like PRIDE did back in the day. People would pay big money for PPV with these freak fights and it would answer some of the questions that we've always had.

You have to understand most street fights end with sucker punches most people can’t fight the only thing they know how to do is throw the over right hand which is so easy to defend ,so if you’re skilled enough you should have no problem washing an unskilled guy no matter the scenario

I like the weight divisions the way it is because it makes match-ups more interesting at 55 & 70

Okay but the thumbnail is completely off Mighty Mouse would rip Martin to shreds, this whole size matters in a fight only when both men are fighters or there is an appalling difference in size, weight classes do exist in the ufc yes, but everyone in that league are the best fighters in the world so size is more of a substantial factor

been waiting for a post thank you 🙏

Never thought i'd live to see the day where Celebrity Death Match became a real thing, lol 2023 is wild.

nah so many body builder and tall people think they can fight, but a wrestler would break their neck

6:08 what the hell is going here 😂

The comment sections of those pics with the mma fighters standing next to strongmen competitors / bodybuilders are flooded with comments by 2 types of people 1. Guys who only lift 2. Guys don't lift or fight but pretend to be experts in online hypothetical debates about fighting; then you have your select few who actually know a thing or two who probably do a good amount of both fighting & lifting. I'm not gonna lie I always read the comments on those kind of pics for the lols.

As a small dude. This video have too much cope. What is the most important thing that sumo wrestlers(a one place where there are no "weight classes") do? They eat a lot. Because the reality is, in real life fight, someone bigger and stronger would almost always win against someone smaller and weaker. I know this, because I saw many times in a kickboxing ring(which is less forgiving for different weight classes than wrestling) a middle class "champ level athlete" gets beaten in a minute by a heavyweight who would be training for a month, after the middle class would ask to spar with the big guy "for real". Wanna get good at fighting for real? Eat a lot and gain weight, try to become a heavyweight. 220 pounds+. You can do it while training martial arts too.