perfect body for a fighter

[younghypnotiq]

what do you think would be the perfect body type for a fighter
Height
weight
Body type

[achillesthegreat]

Depends on division, talent and natural/core style.

[Boyd]

depends on division. you'd have a hard time arguing that GSP doesn't have a perfect fight frame. wiry, powerful, fast and explosive.

[Stone Lion]

hard, strong, fast, flexible

[younghypnotiq]

im talking about overall. as in like the original UFC where there was no weight divisisons

[BoardBULLY]

lol@this fag shit

[Tko4]

6'1 to 6'2.
220-225 pounds.

[younghypnotiq]

id go with someone around 6ft3-6ft5 because it gives good reach and your not too tall so that you cant grapple
and weight wod have to be aroudn 250-260. and the body type would have to be mainly muscle like 8% BF. anyone agree?

obviouly he would alo have to have good cardio aswell

[Donut62]

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Towards the end of his run in K-1 Mirko looked fantastic, about 6'-2" and 230 pounds.

[Tko4]

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Towards the end of his run in K-1 Mirko looked fantastic, about 6'-2" and 230 pounds.

Couture is about the same size as Cro Cop, too. I think that's the perfect size. Enough muscle and leverage to knock out everyone in the world...but not freakishly tall or freakishly heavy...both of which have their disadvantges. Plus, at that height you have good range on your punches, but your arms aren't so long as to be unwieldy. And at that weight you can also have plenty of stamina, but you're not so small that you easily get tossed around.

[younghypnotiq]

def 6-2-6-4 would be the best

[ryanty22]

Height-prob about 5'2 perfect size for leverage
weight-around 450 too big to get thrown around
Body type- round like a basket ball if they cant get their arms around you they cant throw you

[ufoalf]

Doesn't matter. It's all about your fighting spirit. I don't care whats height or weight is as long as you're athletic and have the right spirit you're good. I.E Fedor.

[Koa]

I like Mark Hunt.. Built like a tank, can strike well, take a shot, extremely mobile with great endurance. Basically, Samoans and Maori are built for it, naturally strong and very solid chins.

If you could have taken Mark Hunt at the age of 14 or so, cross trained him in something like Judo and Muay Thai, he would be one of the toughest people to beat.

Crocop has sick firepower, but how much of that is from training? Thing about an ideal, large framed Islander who would train just as much.. Would have a naturally solid chin. Extremely fast and mobile for the size.

[ufoalf]

I like Mark Hunt.. Built like a tank, can strike well, take a shot, extremely mobile with great endurance. Basically, Samoans and Maori are built for it, naturally strong and very solid chins.

If you could have taken Mark Hunt at the age of 14 or so, cross trained him in something like Judo and Muay Thai, he would be one of the toughest people to beat.

Crocop has sick firepower, but how much of that is from training? Thing about an ideal, large framed Islander who would train just as much.. Would have a naturally solid chin. Extremely fast and mobile for the size.

Why people keep calling Hunt Samoan? I thought he was New Zealender.

[curmudgeon]

:smoke The guy in my avatar. Case closed.

[Donut62]

Why people keep calling Hunt Samoan? I thought he was New Zealender.

He moved to New Zealand later in life.

[achillesthegreat]

I believe 6'3 and above they start to visibly lose things like co-ordination, agility, nimbleness, stamina, speed etc You compare them to smaller fighters and they can't contend.

So I'd go with 6'0-6'2 and somewhere in between the light heavy and heavy guys. For size and not aesthetics I'm thinking Fedor.

[achillesthegreat]

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Towards the end of his run in K-1 Mirko looked fantastic, about 6'-2" and 230 pounds.
Is this K1? Did he beat Hunt? Why is it not on his record? I've only see Hunt beat Cro?

[Donut62]

Is this K1? Did he beat Hunt? Why is it not on his record? I've only see Hunt beat Cro?
If you're going by Sherdog fightfinder, it only counts MMA fights. Mirko beat Hunt in kickboxing by an easy decision. He absolutely crushed Hunt and put him on his ass with one of the cleanest high kicks ever landed. It's a great fight to watch, very techincal:

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[Donut62]

Couture is about the same size as Cro Cop, too. I think that's the perfect size. Enough muscle and leverage to knock out everyone in the world...but not freakishly tall or freakishly heavy...both of which have their disadvantges. Plus, at that height you have good range on your punches, but your arms aren't so long as to be unwieldy. And at that weight you can also have plenty of stamina, but you're not so small that you easily get tossed around.

Yup, I agree completely. Mirko has been a tad bit smaller in the past year or so, coming in at low 220's. He said this was because his ankle injury sustained in the lead up to his fight with Hunt and the subsequent surgeries kept him out of the weight room for about a year and half. He seems to have put some size back for the kongo fight.

[Mike W]

6'4 and about 230 pounds, like Steven Seagal

[cross_trainer]

7'2", 500 pounds of pure muscle, taken from a 500,000,000 person talent pool of athletic, 7'2" people.

[cross_trainer]

6'1 to 6'2.
220-225 pounds.

Perhaps "modern superheavyweights" are less at home in the MMA environment. :think

[Koa]

I just don't get how you don't pick a guy that is naturally built like a tank, and genetically naturally strong, with a genetically granite chin..

Its like picking the stronger material when comparing Iron to titanium. Iron may be more malleable, but Titanium as a base product is just superior.

This is the way I see Mark Hunt.. Ideal fighter would be a Maori or Samoan south paw trained in Muay Thai and either Judo or Combat Sambo.

I shudder when I imagine an Islander with Mark Hunts size and quickness that might have crisp strikes and deadly subs with a head that will stay attatched when it is hit while DIVING into a Crocop left leg.

[Minotauro]

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7'2 385lbs he makes the rest look like children. WAR GIANT SILVA

[Tko4]

Perhaps "modern superheavyweights" are less at home in the MMA environment. :think
Being incredibly big in MMA typically isn't an asset, and I'm not just asking this based on joke fighters (like Butterbean, Bob Sapp, or Giant Silva). Ask James Thompson what being huge does in MMA. Nothing. The best fighters at heavyweight are about 6'1-6'2 and 220-230 pounds. And they're not just the best overall. Some are the best strikers (ie Cro Cop), best wrestlers (ie Couture), or best submission fighters (ie Nog/Fedor). Nog is slightly heavier than that, but he's not a superheavy.