Originally Posted by
tunghaichuan
To paraphrase Robert W. Smith: you can be sure that a 6' 5" 250 lb. stevedore will beat the crap out of a 5' 7", 130 lb., 5th Dan karateka. Size is a huge deciding factor, which is why there are weight classes in contact/combat sports.
I don't know jack about contact sports, but this I do not believe to be necessarily true. I have a true story.
I'm in a bar in the '90's, long hair and thin guy, with a guy I knew so and so, really thin, puny guy like 5'5" or whatever - I mean, I was skinny at 65kg and 177cm and he's like almost a head shorter and 20 pounds lighter. Hell smaller than most normal schoolgirls are, really.
Anyways, so we're having a beer and this HUGE guy comes to sit by us, he's built like an ox, easily over six feet and looks like a viking or something. Scary just because he was such a hulk of a guy. And he starts talking with us, he's somewhat drunk and so on, but pretty soon he starts eyeing who's he talking with and obviously dislikes us 'hippies' so all of a sudden he starts kinda talking all weird about things and how his kinda guys put all kinds of f**ng hippies underground and how he knows some russian mafia and whatnot, and we're like eyeing for exit. You know the drill.
Well my puny buddy is sitting right next to me, and (I later understood) what happened is this fella big was about to put his hands around his neck, semi-joking or I dunno, but anyways there's just this quick WOOHS and the giant just sort of staggers upwards and continues right down on his back eyes rolling and falls on the floor. I don't even see or realize what the hell happened.
We just sit there and my heart's missed a few beats and then the barkey comes to us and asks what the hell happened, did he fall, and my buddy just says that 'nope he was gonna strangle me or something and I just knocked him out'. The barkey just stares for a while in disbelief and shrugs and goes away saying 'you better get him up, then' as he goes.
My buddy is looking kinda worried and after a while he asks if the guy is still unconscious, and then he sighs and goes and wakes him up with a few slaps and just gently tells him to go home, OK, and the guy ups and goes, clearly still quite woozy.
Then my buddy comes back and he's all trembly and explains that he's never hit anyone outside a ring and he'd lose his licence and whatnot if he got busted for a bar fight...
And that's when I learn he was a Finnish featherweight Karate champion of some class the year before. So, yeah, I do know for a fact even a flyweight guy _can_ hit so hard and accurately that even a real big fella comes down like a tree.
But, if it were a fight in a ring and even the big guy has some fighting experience, sure I'd bet for him.
Dee
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