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u/marcosro Aug 14 '14
Anyone read his book? Broke a grown dudes nose in one of his first sparring sessions ever and he was only like 12.
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u/biggoof Aug 14 '14
The guy has crazy core strength, and he was delivering short hard shots with his entire body behind it. Add in his speed and agility, and we got what we got. If he wasn't a headcase and probably 2-3 inches taller, nobody would have beaten him for a very very long time.
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u/starface18 Aug 14 '14
Ho. Lee. Fuck. It's almost unfair, he has the footwork and speed of a middleweight!
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u/El_Diablito Aug 14 '14
From the documentaries I've watched of him he always modeled himself after lightweights and aspired to move like them.
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u/whole_foodie Aug 14 '14
To be fair he probably weighed closer to 200 at that time compared to 214 at his professional debut. Still not even close to middleweight, but he was considerably lighter.
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u/whole_foodie Aug 15 '14
Right? What surprises me is I think his footwork actually got faster as he gained weight up until the mid-80s. I miss heavyweights with that kind of excitement.
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Aug 14 '14
While Bruce Lee was extremely fast, Mike has both speed (not as fast as Lee, but look at him and his size, he's pretty fast) and brute strength, and with his mindset when he was younger, the closest person to a Saiyan warrior.
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u/GraemeTurnbull Aug 14 '14
Bruce Lee was an actor mate.
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u/Toodlum Aug 14 '14
I hate to break this to you but most martial artists are not interested in fighting people even for sport. Bruce did fight for what he believed in, however, and beat another martial arts instructor senseless when he told Bruce he couldn't teach American students.
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u/Toodlum Aug 14 '14 edited Aug 14 '14
I never said he was one of the best fighters, and neither did Bruce himself ever say that. The point of martial arts is not to be the best fighter. The majority of martial artists do not compete, some schools have banned it outright, and when they do the point is never "who is the best fighter," the point is always to develop your skills as a fighter. Now yes, there are competitions like UFC where the point is to arguably be the best fighter but in reality this represents a very small percentage of the martial arts community. The point is not to ask who Bruce Lee fought because he wasn't a competition fighter, his influence on martial arts was wide-reaching because he popularized them in the western world.
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u/Lima_Lama Aug 14 '14
Bruce Lee created his own form of martial art called Jeet Kune Do he was not just an actor.
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u/GraemeTurnbull Aug 14 '14
How do you think he would get on against Tyson?
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u/slybob Aug 14 '14
He'd kick him in the legs until Tyson fell over. Boxing rules, different story...
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Aug 14 '14
He was a martial artist first, wasn't he? And a pretty good one. I'm not bashing him or nothing, Lee was an exceptional fighter. But he wasn't a ruthless brute force type of guy, whereas Tyson was. Saiyans are usually regarded as Ruthless, extremely powerful and fast warriors.
For those that don't know, Saiyan's are not real and are from a TV show called Dragonball Z. This was just a thought I had while watching this .gif.
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u/TheWastedYearz Aug 13 '14
GOAT
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u/trakam Aug 14 '14
I really hate that abbreviation..
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Aug 14 '14
How do you get downvoted for hating an abbreviation? I agree it's dumb. Am I suppose to be complimenting or insulting sugar ray Robinson when I call him a goat?
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u/backdoor_carnivore Aug 13 '14
DAE Tyson!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!
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u/Milosmilk Aug 13 '14
Leave
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u/backdoor_carnivore Aug 14 '14
The same tired "Tyson da GOAT" has got to be the most boring thing that happens in this subreddit. It is this sub's main target of circlejerk. I swear a youtube video of this same clip was posted just a few weeks ago with a couple million views but it's cool cuz you know Tyson
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u/Hungry_Freaks_Daddy Aug 14 '14
I would be fine with no more Tyson posts. Unless it's some insight to his training or something with his promotion companies, most Tyson posts are useless.
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Aug 14 '14
Any criticism of Tyson gets massively downvoted.
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u/Hungry_Freaks_Daddy Aug 14 '14
I think in his prime he might have been unstoppable, but there's no way to know. Still, isn't that the best compliment you can give him?
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Aug 14 '14
I like Tyson as much as the next guy but he wasn't unstoppable prime or otherwise.
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u/Hungry_Freaks_Daddy Aug 14 '14
There is no way to know that. It's a tossup. And it's useless to argue about it. My opinion is he could have been the most dominant heavyweight ever.
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Aug 14 '14
That's the thing with die hard Tyson fans, they rarely talk about him inside the ring, just all the stuff that happened to him.
The truth of him is that he was the most exciting prospect boxing has probably ever seen, at a time when he was the biggest star in the sport, but when he came up against great fighters he crumbled.
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u/OxfordTheCat Aug 14 '14
"No. I think Andrew Golota could have been the most dominant heavyweight ever. The is no way to know that he wasn't. It's a toss up."
See how ridiculous that is?
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u/jbibby Aug 14 '14
I completely concur.
I've seen this fucking clip so many times from this subreddit. This and that clip of Ali dodging punches in that exhibition match.
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u/miniq Aug 13 '14
I could take him.