Uh, not really. His size was nullified by SKILL as pointed out by americanbulldog. homo.
The Japanese love a sideshow attraction. In Pride, his fighting style was listed as "Football" for crying out loud. Sapp is a businessman. Plain and simple. Hope this helps.
Wrong, fucking moron.
He conveniently forgot to mention that, Bob Sapp beat the BEST K-1 fighter(excluding Aerts, et al) not once, but...TWICE.
Bob Sapp, a man with limited fighting skill and poor pain tolerance, beat the former kickboxing champion of the entire world -
relying solely on his monstrous physicality.
Someone will probably chime with conspiracy theories and say, "well the fight was stopped early by the Yakuza controlled ref..."
You can watch the videos yourself on Youtube and decide for yourself.
An argument can be made that
one fight was stopped early;
however, Sapp soundly defeated Hoost in their other match.
And now, today, another huge fighter with questionable skill sits atop the K-1 throne:
His name is Semmy Schilt, and he's in the 6'10'' range. The same is true in boxing:
Gigantic fighters have superseded smaller fighters.
Someone will say that giant boxers like Valuev reached the top without facing stiff competition,
but the fact is, he was facing the best competition at the time.
Now ask yourself this: What attribute of fighters can prevent them from fighting each other?
The answer is weight. Smaller fighters are not allowed to fight larger fighters, because the larger fighter is at a distinct advantage.
There are no restrictions based on the attribute of skill; a rookie is free to fight a seasoned veteran if money is to be made.
Restrictions are based only on weight, because size is a bigger factor than skill in a fight.
At a certain point, no amount of skill is going to overcome a tremendous size disparity.
Videos can be posted of smaller fighters beating larger fighters, but that doesn't disprove my initial statement, which is this:
The most skilled fighter can be defeated by someone larger, with relatively tremendous power and relatively limited skill.
Bob Sapp defeating the greatest kickboxer in the world twice, with football, is proof of the initial statement.
