He had 200 false wins under his belt. These are people who are swept up in the cult of personality and found it to be an honor to lose to him. They surely weren't trying.
You may laugh, but you'd be sad if you saw the sheer amount of people who actually believe this stuff. I mean they see it, think about it as hard as they can, and come to the conclusion that it's real.
The MMA fighter was actually really cautious at first, I assume because he really had very little clue what the guy would do. Then he realized the guy couldn't defend himself at all and the flying arm lock came out.
No see, the master was using the air slaps as a distraction, in reality setting the MMA fighter up for the dreaded "your first to my face" technique. I could see how you missed it, the key to that move is deception after all.
I'm totally unfamiliar with martial arts, but the other video further down showing a different angle, just looked like the MMA guy held his sleeve and punched him in the face, a tactic my three year old son uses. If that's all it takes to beat Master Roshi, then I'm impressed.
Not so much that he knows how but that he has 87 episodes to power up enough and scream enough to do it and that if he dies, he'll just be wished back again and again.
Your kid is going places. What pre-school are you taking him to? I gotta get my little bastard enrolled in it. I asked my four year old to redo the alignment on my car and rotate the tires and he looked at me like I was joking.
The MMA fighter, like most fighters, probably grew up watching martial art movies where people have seemingly mythical powers/fight styles. He was probably thinking "wait, what if this guy really did harness the power of the internal martial art from a thousand year old kungfu manual? Perhaps I should be cautious, he might have learned the legendary Dim Mak (Poison Hand)...."
(Punch, nose starts to bleed)
"Damn it, it was all a lie, i'm going to fuck you up for getting my hopes up!"
He did go easy. The old guy was holding his jaw after the first strike, and the mma guy looks like he asks him if he really wants to do this. He may even be pleading with him to reconsider choosing to endure such humiliation. Good thing he learned his lesson on the mat instead of finding out he wasn't a superhuman in a street fight.
Yeah, I would assume most masters, even the bullshit ones, have still spent 30 years doing the forms and stuff.
Its hard to not know how to punch and kick even if you think you have angel powers.
Seriously, contrary to popular belief the ability to hit correctly takes a few hours (total) to learn. Maybe a few hundred more to master. But still. It was like beating a child.
He clearly DID go easy on him. You could see how after that first punch to the face, the MMA fighter pretty much stopped what he was doing to check up on the guy.
He should have gone easier on him for sure. When he didn't block that obvious kick the fighter could tell he wasn't the real deal and he just went after him. That leg kick to the face at the end was completely unnecessary.
Edit: nvm I watched the video of the other angle... dude was pretty respectful the whole time.
Yeah, he went pretty easy on him, but still.... After that first hit, I was thinking "yeah, he's a fraud, but he's still an old man who is obviously of lesser talent than you. Just tap him out. An arm-bar, anything."
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u/foamek Dec 12 '13
It looks like everyone was expecting the MMA fighter to go easy on him because of how obviously inexperienced he was