Carolina Panthers Guard Taylor Hearn KO'd in streetfight

[Game6Conley]

And that my friends is why when you're in a fight, put your damn hands up... big for nothing ***..

 

[fishonjazz]

He is lucky he didn't hurt his knee

 

[Stoked]

Being big has very little to do with fighting ability.

 

[Carbon13]

Being big has very little to do with fighting ability.

I don’t think this is true

 

[Stoked]

I don’t think this is true

Why not?

Big men can have weak chins just the same as small men. Plus spots like knees, fingers, nose, ears, kidneys and groin are just as vulnerable

 

[fishonjazz]

Why not?

Big men can have weak chins just the same as small men. Plus spots like knees, fingers, nose, ears, kidneys and groin are just as vulnerable

I mostly agree with you but there is a reason there are different weight classes in MMA and boxing.


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[fishonjazz]

If I were forced to have to pick a guy out of a group of guys to fight I definitely wouldn't pick an offensive lineman sized guy.

Even though a much smaller guy might be the best fighter and the big guy might be a horrible fighter. If all things are equal I would always prefer to fight a smaller dude rather than a bigger dude.

I do get your point though stoked. Just being big doesn't make a good fighter.

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[Stoked]

I mostly agree with you but there is a reason there are different weight classes in MMA and boxing.


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You’re talking about trained fighters. Untrained fighters? Big guys go down all the time to smaller men. Sure there’s a benefit in sheer size, in mass. But it’s fairly limited imo.

 

[fishonjazz]

You’re talking about trained fighters. Untrained fighters? Big guys go down all the time to smaller men. Sure there’s a benefit in sheer size, in mass. But it’s fairly limited imo.

I agree that a smaller man can be a better fighter and beat a bigger man. But I think if both are equal as fighters then I'm putting my money on the bigger guy. Not trained fighters mind you. Maybe they both suck at fighting. I will take the bigger guy if their ability is similar.

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[Stoked]

I agree that a smaller man can be a better fighter and beat a bigger man. But I think if both are equal as fighters then I'm putting my money on the bigger guy. Not trained fighters mind you. Maybe they both suck at fighting. I will take the bigger guy if their ability is similar.

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I’ll take the one that has that assurance in his gaze and walk. The natural kind. Not the puffed up peacock kind. I’ve seen it as often in little guys and big guys

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

It depends on the type of fighting. The big guy could probably pick the smaller guy up and throw him through a window if he wanted to.

 

[Rubashov]

That dude can't fight his way out of a wet paper bag

 

[slc]

Seems odd
O linemen are taking blows to the head 60 to 70 times every game

 

[Stoked]

Seems odd
O linemen are taking blows to the head 60 to 70 times every game

Pushes and bumps to a helmeted head are very different then right hooks to the chin.

 

[Gameface]

Being big has very little to do with fighting ability.

I totally agree with you. I was a pretty small kid, through elementary school I was usually the shortest and one of the skinniest kids in my class and usually smaller than most of the kids in the class behind mine. Usually once or twice a year someone would try to pick on me, which meant that once or twice a year I'd get into a fist fight because I absolutely refused to be picked on. I've never been in a fight with anyone smaller than myself and other than fights with my older sister and my best friend who was a year older than me I didn't lose fights.

I hung a tetherball to the clothes line pole (yeah we had a clothes line when I was a kid) about a foot above my head and would practice punching it. When someone is expecting to just be able to pick on you but instead they're getting punched in the face several times it doesn't really matter that they're bigger than you.

My parents put me in karate around first or second grade because of how small I was and they worried I might get picked on. It worked. I wasn't any kind of karate master but it did teach me how to stand and use my torso and punch through the target. I also had pretty good natural punch aiming ability. I watch these athletes throw these wild all-arm punches into the air next to the person they're fighting and it's hilarious. Actually connecting goes a long way to winning a fight.

 

[Jazz4ever]

That reminds me of this. Who would win if these two went at it? A trained killer against one of the world's strongest men.

 

[Game6Conley]

That reminds me of this. Who would win if these two went at it? A trained killer against one of the world's strongest men.

If they really went at it the Mountain could kill him easily.. end of story.. he could just grab him and choke him to death.

this footage reminds me of the story of Eduard Boupre...

He was a about 8'4" or so and kind of treated like a circus freak, wasn't a simpleton tho spoke several languages. a star at barnum and balieys circus, but he'd do strongman stunts, and wrestle people they had him wrestle a very famous strongman who was known for lifting 500lbs with one finger... and obviously the powerlifter beat him.. If you google "the strongest man who ever lived" that dude, Louis Cyr's name pops up..

died at age 23 Boupre's corpse was preserved and passed around and lost and found a few times.. just a crazy *** story..

For some perspective Rudy's head would go somewhere up to his coat lapels in that picture. His wingspan honestly looks like it's about 8'8".. One of his acts was apparently he'd pick a horse up and put it on his shoulders.....