A good big man will always beat an equally good small man

[Marinski]

Nog and Cro cop lost to Fedor. So imagine what Fedor would do to sapp and Fujita (who sapp also lost to) got his ass handed to him by Silva.

 

[Savarak]

Originally posted by: Marinski
Nog and Cro cop lost to Fedor. So imagine what Fedor would do to sapp and Fujita (who sapp also lost to) got his ass handed to him by Silva.

that sounds like a foreign language to me

 

[Whisper]

Was it Bruce Lee who said something along the lines of there being three characteristics important in a fight: speed, strength, and skill; be greater than your opponent in any two of the three, and you'll win...?

I think I remember hearing approximately that.

 

[kage69]

I dunno..."skill" is in a different category than the other two...

I do recall hearing "Strategy defeats surprise, surprise defeats speed, speed defeats strength." (I hope I'm remembering that right).

A good combo with the Shaolin maxim: "Avoid rather than harm, harm rather than injure, injure rather than kill, kill rather than be killed."

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: kage69

your refusal to admit the element of chance makes your analysis garbage.

But...but...he's seen so many high school fights...

Once down, he choked everyone into unconciousness. Royce Gracie is his name.

That's not entirely correct, he did that a few times but he also tapped a number of opponents out. I don't recall seeing Dan Severn go unconscious, although being far larger and stronger than Royce (and no slouch speedwise for someone his size) he still lost.

Meh, I'm sure small Royce was just compensating for something.

Yeah, I gotta admit you're correct. Quite a few did tap out.

EDIT: Everybody keeps saying the important elements are "speed, strength, and skill". I'd like to add stamina. I've seen a lot of peeps who appear superior in stregnth/spped/skill lose beacuse they simply "ran out of gas".