Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: vi edit
Originally posted by: alkemyst
This thread is nonsense...no fight can be decided until it's fought.
I like how people here think a SEAL is suddenly chuck norris because of a few weeks of training. SEALs get better with time but a pro-fighter does to and does it EVERYDAY usually.
Many pro-fighters would have no problem killing someone, some probably have already done so.
Yeh, I think some people tend to glamourize special forces soldiers and think that they are the ultimate dealers of death and bodily destruction. It's certainly a part of their training, but it's not like they train for hand to hand combat 40 hours a week with other guys that are training for the same thing.
Just because an MMA guy has to operate within rules doesn't mean he doesn't know how to turn them off when he's out of the ring.
In all honesty, each fight is going to be completely separate from the next, with likely no real pattern. Each SEAL is different, as is each MMA fighter.
But do you honestly think this whole daily training to fight thing actually matters? They are training to fight someone and keep them alive at the same time. Sure, when their adrenaline is pumping and know they have to either kill or not walk away, they will fight differently, but in a fight to the death, you aren't constantly throwing punches to the face. Fighting to kill is not like a fight between two big bad bullies... you aren't squaring up.
Special forces units are trained to fight non-conventionally. And as they fight, they are playing huge mental games with their opponent. As long as they can evade, they truly have the upper hand. That's why each fight would be different, because whether the SEAL can evade and maintain the upper hand over the MMA guy's mind, is going to determine if the SEAL would win.
All the SEAL has to do is get his arms on the guy and it's probably over.
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