Chris nearly beat up Mike Tyson you know!
Bodybuilding apparently gives you the abilities to take on a born fighting machine and Grade A psychopath
LOL...this story may well follow Cormier more than any of his bodybuilding contest history will. I think it was around 2005 when this was brought up on MuscleMayhem, and Cormier was asked about this story by a member of the board or possibly Chad himself, in Venice Gold's, and Cormier said something to the effect of "Are they still talking about that?" And that was over a decade ago, haha.
There are a lot of good threads on this particular subject on here though. Here is a cool/long thread on it from over a decade ago:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=236576.0Another good one from just over five years ago:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=543131.0The above thread started shortly before John "Natural O" Hansen made a video on the subject with Chris Cormier himself...leading me to believe that Hansen may have been inspired to do so from we Getbiggers personally.
It wouldn't be the first time Getbig has inspired YouTube videos.
Here is the thread that John Hansen started...as I said, he quite possibly was inspired by Getbig to talk about it with Cormier himself:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=560981.0And here is Hansen's video where he asks Cormier directly. I recall it being asked somewhat early on; in the first seven minutes or so into the video:
Lastly, DARREN AVEY:
I know I've asked you newbie fighting questions many times, but do you think there is anything that a strong and massive bodybuilder like 25-year-old Cormier could do to a 26-year-old Tyson in 1992, when this was said to have happened? Cormier also claimed that he had a wrestling background from high school...and with Tyson being so dedicated to boxing, it wouldn't surprise me if he had never wrestled at all in his life at that time [hence, possessing no take-down defense, aside from the instinctual].
Would Cormier making a take-down attempt possibly be a way to fire something back at Tyson without committing suicide, or is that just more naivety on my part?