Clueless totally clueless! How does lifting weights giving fighting ability for a start, GSP would easily avoid Poundstones clumbersome punches and then Knock him the fuck out, theres a an old sayingin boxing you cant put muscles on chins and no matter who you are and how many rocks you can lift a punch or kick on the chin by GSP WILL destroy you!
I am clueless?! What a laugh.
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COURSE strength doesn't translate to fighting skill, but the physical attribute of extreme size and strength goes a hell of a long way to allow one to defend and impart serious bodily harm to another.
Consider every attribute just one more card in the deck of possibility.
Oh, and if you wanna continue to use your argument that strength and size doesn't equate to fighting skill, then neither does cardio and speed. Again, these are just more attributes that can enhance technical fighting skill.
Fuckin' retards.
I seriously think some of you are just bitter because you've lifted weights for a number of years and still are 185-pound twinks who fight to bench 225. You desperately wanna believe your little tiny tit ass can destroy a monster strength athlete with some BJJ and "striking" work.
P.S. And, yes, I know a properly placed punch/choke can take anyone out. In a very real sense,
anyone has the chance to potentially beat another in a fight. However, this whole muscle-doesn't-build-on-chins crap is just that, crap. Sure, it doesn't, but it DOES provide incredible armour in a majority of body areas. Being a great technical sport fighter doesn't automatically negate the serious harm that can be done to every body part by someone who is five times the strength and twice the size of the average athletic man.
It goes both ways.
P.S. I gaurantee a guy like GSP would NEVER consider starting a fight with a man like Poundstone unless he absolutely HAD TO. And if he did, he would have much from which to draw from once engaged. But the possibility for him to become injured to the point of mandatory retirement from his SPORT would be a very real reality.