Originally Posted By: Brandon_Iron
Yeah. Good times. Funny how much the biz changed in the decade to follow. Roid monsters. Total cartoon freaks.

Just shows what full-time dedication to any one thing can produce. Like MMA now. There are fighters coming up who've trained since they were in their early teens. The quality of the fighters rises exponentially.


One of my cronies midlife crisis is manifesting itself by doing TKD with a little mma mixed in. When we were in school every idiot who thought they were bad would ramble how their chosen discipline was the baddest. I never understood why people didn't just cherrypick from whatever styles that worked with their individual strengths. A grappler can take a boxer, but a guy who does both is deadly. A guy who takes what works for him and trains his ass off with those styles will tear up a guy who focuses on one discipline. Makes for entertaining fighting, too.

This thread is completely off it's original track. Hooray!
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