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for him to be a great fighter he will need to lose weight, his form is rough but he is new to the sport. If the guy he fights has any skills he will catch on very quickly that he drops his hands after ever punch and he will get a straight jab and hooks to his chin and will be dropped. He does have muscle power but power is only good if you land a punch quickly and right on the button. His punches are not dead on as you could hear from the sound of the mits.....mark my word, if he stays in thsi sport you will see him drop at least 50 pounds pefect example is Mark Coleman, Kerr, shamrock and many other who started in MMA juiced up but caught on very quickly size does not mean shit in the ring unless your on top of your ground and pound
I def agree with some of the things you say here -- however I have to disagree on a few things. It is too hard to judge much of anything from those vids, and his trainer was terrible in the sense that he was telling him what to do (lack of training) and then he was pushing the mitts to meet his gloves rather than keeping them stationary. We both agree he needs A TON of training if he wishes to be successful in this sport, and by that I mean beating someone who is a professional in a professional venue. But 50 pounds? C'mon man that is a bit much, I do not think he will lose more than 15 pounds max. I happen to have met all 3 fighters you mentioned, I sat in a hottub in Detroit, MI w/ Coleman, and he only lost a little weight because of a knee injury that he kept private for a long time. And which Shamrock are you referring to? I have only met Ken twice, but I know Frank much better as I fought on his card at Bushido 1 in Tempe Az. Ken can be difficult at times, and I got 1st hand info that he only used a little test when he 1st came into the sport, then when he went into WWF, juiced up a lot more with GH etc. As for Kerr? Well he had other problems, I saw him shooting up nubain after a fight, and he had all kinds of stuff that I will not mention -- suffice to say it was not the juice where he went wrong.
Knockout power comes from speed and explosiveness as somebody mentioned. If a guy has a lot of strength, and has speed he will have KO ability. Think about a baseball player who is a homerun slugger. It is all about batspeed. The faster the slugger can turn his wrists, and snap his hips, the harder and farther he will hit the ball. It is a quick explosion. The ball will go farther if the player uses a heavier bat yet can still keep the bat speed up. He could go to a lighter bat and his speed would increase, but the ball would not go as far. This is like punching. It may look like Marius is slow, but for his size he is quick. He swings a big ass bat. There is a lot of power in those hands of his, he just needs to learn how to use them. Like Bigman said, if he drops his hands he is gonna start eating punches, but with those big hands and arms he essentially has armor, so be needs to learn that too.
He needs to work on the speed bag as much as possible, condition himself, and get another fighter or two (the more the better) or get into a camp so they can transform him from a strongman into a fighter. IMO he should not fight for 6 months at least. It looks like either him or somebody got it into his head that he should get into MMA (maybe because there is $$$ in it now) and I applaud anyone who gets into the cage/ring, and he does have great potential to be a successful fighter -- I just think from what I have seen anyhow, that he is going about it completely in the wrong way. And I can see it sometimes on his face, that he sort of realizes...what am I getting myself into? I am sure he is eager for competition, he is a genetic marvel. I am a big fan of his, and it worries me that he is not in the right hands. I hope some other ppl in the sport see this and quickly set him up properly. I guess it would be interesting to know how serious he is -- is this something he is doing on a whim for the hell of it? Or is he seriously pursuing this as a career? Whatever the case, whoever he fights first, despite him being so green, is going to have their hands full with Marius -- and that will be fun to watch.