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I was arguing with my buddy the other day that the top 50 or so (potential) fighters in the world are in the NBA/NFL and not the UFC. This picture says it all. Elite genetics aren't messing around with 6 figures in the UFC when they can make millions playing football or basketball
Not sure how many nba players would necessarily make elite fighters... Sure NFL players.I was arguing with my buddy the other day that the top 50 or so (potential) fighters in the world are in the NBA/NFL and not the UFC. This picture says it all. Elite genetics aren't messing around with 6 figures in the UFC when they can make millions playing football or basketball
Not sure what the point of your post was other than to toot your horn...though not sure what was so impressive or noteworthy.He’s got good stock his dad was a world class athlete. Shorter than his dad though so that sucks, his mom must not have been very tall or maybe you just don’t always hit the lottery on everything even when it’s in your favor.
I’m 6’1 and my dad is slightly taller than me but both sides of my family are tall, the boys are just as tall if not taller than me on both sides and there are dozens of them. I should have been at least a couple inches taller but I guess it doesn’t always work out that way and I think training so hard and cutting for wrestling played a role, I had a big growth spurt after 6th grade but nothing at all after that which coincided with when I started wrestling.
I don’t have a single athlete in my family tree so I feel like I have to work twice as hard to get the same results, no health issues whatsoever though so that’s good but who the fuck wants to live forever right haha. I’ve got a bunch of super greased up italian guys for friends and they have the bodies of Grecian gods and don’t do shit in the gym, they barely put any effort into it at all and party like junkies.
Looking forward to passing some good genetics to me kids when the time comes, breaking the chain.
If that pic isn't altered or anything... He's get better shoulders and arms than any running back in the entire NFLEvander Holyfield’s son, Elijah, who plays for Georgia. 5’11 216lbs and will be a junior (currently 19) next football season. Should get more carries with Chubb and Michel off to the pros
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Not sure what the point of your post was other than to toot your horn...though not sure what was so impressive or noteworthy.
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I was arguing with my buddy the other day that the top 50 or so (potential) fighters in the world are in the NBA/NFL and not the UFC. This picture says it all. Elite genetics aren't messing around with 6 figures in the UFC when they can make millions playing football or basketball
Brendan Schaub who briefly played in the NFL and was a top level UFC heavyweight
he wasn't a top UFC fighter tho...
there's so much more to fighting than size and strength
I’m not the biggest fan of mma but slice is right athletic ability and size are not the defining attributes as they are in other sports.
I was arguing with my buddy the other day that the top 50 or so (potential) fighters in the world are in the NBA/NFL and not the UFC. This picture says it all. Elite genetics aren't messing around with 6 figures in the UFC when they can make millions playing football or basketball
Same could be said for bodybuilding. Aren’t bodybuilders guys who couldn’t make it in professional sports? Bodybuilding’s greatest generic freak in history is Ronnie Coleman. He only played D-2 football and wasn’t even close to making it in the NFL. Phil Heath couldn’t make it in the NBA either. So basically bodybuilding represents the best of the worst in actual genetics. It will never change either, as long as the major sports are paying what they are paying, and bodybuilding is only 400k to the Olympia winner. we will never truly see the genetic elite in bodybuilding.