You're a TUF guy that has jumped on the MMA bandwagon who doesn't even know the basic rules of PRIDE and obviously hasn't seen any of the best fighters the organization has ever had. AmericanBulldog has something like 14+ years of grappling and striking experience if I'm not mistaken, so you're really digging yourself into a hole here. You're a clown.
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i was talking about mma on here years before tuff came out so that theory is shot to shit, and i pwned the fuck out of you regarding arona and teh natural progression of fights in pride v ufc so you really shouldnt speak to me, seriously
as for bulldog, i didnt read his last post because its long, but if hes been training striking for 14 years id expect him to know that being overly muscled kills you on a speed, endurance and rom level in terms of striking. now weather or not matt hughes has that size(and type) of musculature is a matter of opinion, but what is apparent is hughes does not bang well and by that i mean he doesnt seem to have a good concept of relaxing his shoulders, sitting on his punches, throwing solid combos, kicking, distance/footwork, throwing from the hip ... he throws like more like a tense weight lifter than a striker .. to be fair, this is true for 90% of the mma world .. if you dont believe me watch a ufc with anyone whose done muaythai or boxing and ask them what they think of studs like leben and franklin(not to say they are overmuscled, but they dont understand striking very well and were considered to be striking gods by TUF fools like you)
granted you cannot throw in maa the same as in a pure kickboxing bout because youll get taken down right away, but you can still differieniate the overly muscled guys(coleman, hughes, monson, shrek, kerr etc) from the boys who are much more wirey but bang much harder (gomi, fedor, crocop, liddell, vera) on the basic way they throw: from the shoulder(former) and the hip(later) ... conversly, when you come into mma from a striking background you need to train your muscles differently for a different type of balance and footwork, some people adjusted very well (crocop, hunt) and some didnt(schilt, leko)
