Quote: (01-12-2016 05:10 AM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:
Well...kicking someone's ass is very situational.
In a boxing ring, excess muscle and no stamina is clearly not ideal.
In a small room with no rules? My money would be on the weightlifter.
It's all situational. Always.
If I had a £ for every martial artist that has been given a hiding by a huge bouncer in a bar or nightclub I'd be a very, very rich man.
Isn't that the truth.
The baddest guy on the planet isn't going to ride a good shot he doesn't see coming, or a clean strike to the temple/point of the chin with a house brick.
Being bigger is always an advantage. Being able to fight is always an advantage. But anyone can lose a fight, any man can be beaten. There's plenty of big bad guys who are tremendous athletes and fighters who lost fights because a smaller, weaker, less trained individual decided to escalate up the force continuum first.
I'll stand by the statement that being big is always better, and being skilled is always better, but in a way it can give you a false confidence. A guy who is 130lbs of bad intentions isn't going to get into a wrestling match with a 225lb fighter, he is just going to stab you or blindside you with a blunt object. Fair fights happen in a ring. Outside the ring, however big and bad you are, you're pretty much playing the lottery if you go looking for trouble.
An amusing anecdote - I saw a regional middleweight boxing champion I trained with, who was a seriously bad dude with a high knockout rate and plenty of fights, get rocked and nearly put on his arse by a girl who'd got 6 months training under her belt, because they were horsing around, and she threw a playful shot harder than she realised when he was not looking. His legs went for a second and he staggered. He wasn't 'hurt', but in different circumstances, against someone who wasn't 105lbs soaking wet, and who wanted to finish him, he would have gone - as seasoned as he was.