Originally posted by KuRuPT Thanosi
Why would a brick destroy a bodybuilder? Are you saying if the brick has training and the bodybuilder doesn't? I don't get the comparison.
You didn't quite understand what my point was.
What Superman fanboys on this board (and basically everywhere else, but mainly on this board) say is that because Superman is capable of benchpressing the Earth that he can also easily destroy it, while I'm saying that that's not the case.
Superman is strong, yes - but he clearly lacks fighting experience, which is needed for better striking.
A bodybuilder / strongman will be able to lift more weight than a Kung Fu expert, but they won't be able to break a layer of bricks, while the master will.
At that point it has nothing to do with strength. The bodybuilder and the strongman will break their own hand by trying to destroy the layer of bricks, but the Kung Fu master has trained years for that and he knows the proper technique to destroy it.
Superman can have the natural strength to benchpress the planet, but so far his damage output is at mountain busting levels, if he is not sundipped. He himself stated it, so has the narration during other instances and the collataral damage of his damage output supports that even further.
It's logic and comic book statements, which state that he lacks the experience and striking power to pull off more.
Superman = Bodybuilder / Strongman
Thor = Kung Fu master
Thor never benchpressed the Earth for days, but he has been shattering planets with his Mjolnir strikes and so has Beta Ray Bill, who is Thor's equal. They're both experienced fighters, who have trained a long time to inflict a lot of damage with their attacks.
It's plain and simple logic and I really don't get why people feel the need to argue with me on this. Logic is stating it, supporting my take on it and even the comics provide more than enough context for it to be true.
Originally posted by KuRuPT Thanosi
Also, I'll LOL at your Tyson would destroy Bruce Lee thing... I totally disagree with your reasoning and with how sure you are with the results. Sure he could beat Bruce lee but it's anything but a given. I assure you I've watched more MMA than you, and there is one thing that it's taught me, mixed training will be one dimensial more times than not.
Just real quick something about the last statement you made ... that you've watched more MMA than me :-7 Recently Raj told me that he read more Marvel comics than me.
Do you people actually know who I am and have insider information on me, or are you always telling other people what you have done more and better than them?
I for example don't do such a thing. I wouldn't even tell a person, who I just met for the first time that I'm smarter than he / she is. I would have to check that person out and then be able to decide if I'm superior in any way or not ... so no, since you basically don't know me at all, you also can't tell if you've watched more MMA than I have and by establishing that, you should take my opinion on MMA related stuff into consideration, since the chance is there that I know more about it than you do.
George St-Pierre is considered to be one of the best fighters on the planet. He has a great win / loss record, had to defeat a lot of great competition and he's done that in devastating fashion every now and then ...
... but he was never too happy about the idea to fight Anderson Silva, who has a similar status, even though I prefer GSP over Silva due to him facing the better and tougher competition throughout the years.
Why should GSP fight Anderson Silva, who is simply a bigger man? The fact is that both men know how to fight and physical advantage would come very in handy in such a fight and the same applies for Mike Tyson and Bruce Lee.
Mike Tyson is the bigger man and therefore he holds more power - he might be able to simply outlast and overpower Bruce Lee, but that still doesn't mean that he can break bricks with his fists, because he doesn't have the proper technique, while I could see Bruce Lee doing something like that, since that guy always looked like a genius to me.
And I'm by no means a Bruce Lee fan :-7 I prefer Jackie Chan.