Andre The Giant - in his prime, could someone defeat him in an MMA fight?

[arce1988]

  It would be hard to beat such a huge person   but it could be done

[GRACIE JIU-JITSU]

If so how? How you gonna take a man that big and strong to the ground to use your ground game? You gonna stand toe to toe with him? One of those sledgehammer hands smashing into your head and its all over, YOU RE all over. And i think a punch onto that melon head would have next to no effect.So how would you beat him "IN DA CAGE?"

[OTHstrong]

If so how? How you gonna take a man that big and strong to the ground to use your ground game? You gonna stand toe to toe with him? One of those sledgehammer hands smashing into your head and its all over, YOU RE all over. And i think a punch onto that melon head would have next to no effect.So how would you beat him "IN DA CAGE?"

Not sure if this is relevent to your point but the big show when asked who would win in a fight out of all the wrestler he said it was a toss up between Kurt Ankle and the Undertaker and he admitted they can both beat him and he is as big as Andre, triple h also said on off the record that the undertaker and Angle were the toughest.

[ukjeff]

Not sure if this is relevent to your point but the big show when asked who would win in a fight out of all the wrestler he said it was a toss up between Kurt Ankle and the Undertaker and he admitted they can both beat him and he is as big as Andre, triple h also said on off the record that the undertaker and Angle were the toughest.

No, its not relevant because they dont really fight.

[BikiniSlut]

Someone really agile could definitely beat him.

Bigger doesn't equal better.

[Soul Crusher]

No, its not relevant because they dont really fight.

Angle was an olympic wrestler remember?

[OTHstrong]

No, its not relevant because they dont really fight.

Angle was a gold medalist in Olympic wrestling bro,  oh shit just saw the other comment about this , my bad 3333386

[Schnauzer]

The only thing that could defeat Andre The Giant in his prime was a crossword puzzle

[mame09]

Angle was an olympic wrestler remember?

imagine him in pride

would of been a fukn monster with some help from team hammer house

[#1 Klaus fan]

Angle was an olympic wrestler remember?

And wrestlers don't fight.

[Hulkotron]

The Hulkster defeated him with a bodyslam and a running leg drop, vitamins and prayers were the source of his power.

[LurkerNoMore]

Undertaker winning a fight?  Pfffftt!

[Soul Crusher]

And wrestlers don't fight.

You want to fight Angle?   

[MikMaq]

Size don't matter, apparently being able to read any sports stat don't matter either.

In virtually every real sport aside from bodybuilding size matters.

The only semi exception is soccer, and that's only because the bulk of the talent comes from countries where the people are very short.
 
If you understand the bell curve, it's easy to see if your above 6 4, and have good genetics, you'll succeed in any sport. Of course your talking about a relatively small segment of the population, but they exist.

[Mr Nobody]

All the way a big dude was he humble as well? I think so.

[arce1988]

 

[SomeKindofMonster]

Like someone mentioned earlier, use speed to get to the legs
to get them to the ground. If someone has a steel jaw and can take a hell of a punch
then you go for the temple. Tyson knocked out a few guys or more with temple shots.
Then there's always choking them out although with Andre you would most likely
need long arms.
Here's the closest scenario to this thread and it took a very skilled 230 pds. pudgy
Fedor 2 minutes to win. Fedor is really a lightheavyweight that dominated the heavys
for a long time. By that I mean his structure and muscle mass is that of a 205 lightheavy
and the extra weight was not quality weight but he was so skilled for his time he constantly
beat bigger opponents. MMA has evolved though and in this day and age in the UFC he
would probably fight as a lightheavy if he was just starting his career now.

[chess315]

royces opponents where some what hand picked tv type martial arts experts that had no idea what they where getting thereselves into and most would have been beat by the local highschool wrestling champ. That being said royce is a very good fighter but in his prime wouldnt be very competitive in his own weight class now.

[mame09]

royces opponents where some what hand picked tv type martial arts experts that had no idea what they where getting thereselves into and most would have been beat by the local highschool wrestling champ. That being said royce is a very good fighter but in his prime wouldnt be very competitive in his own weight class now.

agreed on hand picked but no way wrestlers have a chance against gracie

he proved himself against fighters who knew nothing about submission

if royce really wanted to test himself he would of fought high level judokas


in reality gracie is a pioneer for introducing USA to UFC but he was not a champion of all styles

as he made himself about to be

[arce1988]

  that is the truth about Royce


  Mark Kerr and Mark Coleman would have destroyed him.

[Radical Plato]

Andre was massive, I think he would be a challenge for any man, Martial artist or otherwise.  he was strong and had fingers as big as bananas.  A bitch slap from Andre would be enough for some nighty night.  There is a story about Andre, One night at a bar, four men decided to harass the giant, and Andre got up off of his stool to confront them. The men ran outside into a car and Andre followed, and then tipped the car over on its roof!  Andre was a strong dude.

[Darren Avey]

Never mind Angle and Takeybaby, isnt Haku meant to be the baddest MOFO out there in that game?

[anabolichalo]

i would like to see a fight between mariusz pudzianowski and ronnie coleman

both in their prime and very much pissed off and roid raging

[gee38]

giant haystacks would have done andre

as would big daddy

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[crownshep]

giant haystacks would have done andre

as would big daddy

end of thread

 

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