Fighting is about speed and endurance. Those guys (would) run out of gas in 30 secondss, if they start punching. The result would be running out of gas much faster. After a minute, they will feel like a tree, and those arms will weigh, like, one tonne, each. Those guys don't have speed, endurance, and probably cannot handle pain. Trust me, getting punched and kicked hurts. Btw: Do I have to remind you about eyes, balls, nose, and knees?
They don't need to swing away and take a long amount of time to destroy him. After the initial fray of a started fight, they could simply wrap him up and cause huge damage in mere moments. In your "gassing" thinking, you're imagining some metered altercation that requires success hinged upon a specified mode of attack. And those guys most certainly DO have speed (frighteningly explosive kind) and the necessary endurance. Not for sport fighting circumstances, but most
definitely for a true fight scenario, acknowledging the specialized (and massively elite) attributes they bring to a combat role.
Pain tolerance? Their capacity to work through pain is astounding. If you sincerely doubt this, you're extremely ignorant to what it is they do, day in a day out.
I don't have to "trust you" that getting punched and kicked hurts. Been the receiver of both MANY times over the past two-plus decades, both in my capacity as a bouncer, sparring partner in formal fight schools and in a law-enforcement capacity. Not to mention my upbringing in a rough neighbourhood in Toronto, ON, Canada, where I weekly engaged in fisticuffs with all the black and Italian toughs.
What does feeling the pain of a limbed assault have to do with continuing your efforts? Unless you're unconscious or a complete wimp, and therefore in the fetal position crying for your momma, the discomfort of a strike isn't gonna halt what you're doing.
Yes, balls, eyes, throat, etc. ... What's your point? Again, unless assault to these areas results in death, paralysis or unconsciousness, how will they stop a rampaging attack from an elite athlete who is heralded for otherworldly strength, toughness, size, agility, ruggedness, and aggression? One, in this specific case, who stands almost seven feet tall and weighs, like, 430 pounds?
Do you honestly think some shots to the face is going to have him spin heel and run? Sure, a lucky shot might knock him out, or a fantastically timed and directed kick or poke might disable or falter some element of his total-body attack, but the latter would do little to ensure anything approaching defeat.
With all due respect, I really feel you're out to lunch with this whole fighting thing. Your words convey one who is a "UFC/MMA generation baby".
The real world isn't GSP, YouTube videos,
gassing references and "ground game" plotting.