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Originally posted by Putinbot1
Trust me kid, I don't need to brag. I lifted more than most kids dabbling with gear before my first course. Team America have more people to draw from than the whole of Europe and the worlds strongest man is still a Brit.

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Originally posted by snowdragon
Good for the brits Those folks sacrifice alot to achieve those goals, if the Brits win it over the USA then I say good on them.

One thing that is difficult for many people to grasp is the sacrifice athletes make to achieve their goals. In the USA we don't support our amateur athletes as well as other countries.

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Originally posted by Putinbot1
You have scholarships to universities for them, something most countries don't do.

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Originally posted by snowdragon
You and I both know scholarships are for academics and do not help you perform in athletics unless you mean, of course, it eases financial responsibilities so they stress less.

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Originally posted by Putinbot1
Well, actually population should have exactly that effect.

I'll grant you the British Isles isn't the best choice because we have proven time and time again we are a bit special and even though we are only one and a half states in population, if you scale us up to your size nobody else in the world would win anything. As for MMA, the rules favour wrestlers and tbh, the modern UFC is pretty much just a way for poor strikers and college wrestlers to pretend they are martial artists.

Pride rules were much fairer.

I say Khmer boxing rules all round for striking + football kicks to the head. Now that's real MMA.

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Originally posted by SquallX
Who cares! There are far better things to worry about then sports, and which country as more medals.

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Originally posted by StyleTime
But, it doesn't.

While I preferred most of Pride rules too, UFC rules don't favor wrestlers over anyone. When you can wall walk and guard stall for a ref reset, there's definitely added work for the wrestler. Pride rules actually helped the wrestler by preventing this. The poor strikers and college wrestlers comment is just bias on your part. Olympic wrestlers and world class strikers abound. They, like everyone else, require adjustments to their game once in MMA environments, so they remove "pure" elements that work better in a single-art environment. That's why it looks different.

Khmer boxing isn't MMA any more than Muay Thai or kickboxing are. You're not going to tune in to GLORY if you want to see ankle picks.

I agree. And there's been great athletes from all over the world. I just have too much time on my hands tbh.

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Originally posted by Putinbot1
World class strikers do not abound, seriously Floyd Mayweather is a world-class striker and I honestly believe he carried McGregor. The lack of downward elbows in the clinch and actually anywhere favours wrestlers as you cannot drop elbows on the top of the head, you can in Khmer boxing.

Hey we had these chats a lot once and in the old days you could see through my motives better.

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Originally posted by StyleTime
Nah, there's plenty. Wonderboy, Joanna, Valentina, Overeem, etc. Plenty of people of people could outstrike Mayweather in UFC though. There's more to striking than boxing. Heck, Mayweather would get mauled under the same Thai-style rules you're mentioning.


Ah. I admit you fooled me, although I had a hunch. Nice to see you lmao.

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Originally posted by Putinbot1
Nice to see you too

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Originally posted by Flyattractor
Something NO ONE has ever said about Pootybutt.