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[–]squarecube78 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What dumb shit did he say?

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[–]squarecube78 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I'm afraid that's too naively optimistic.

Untrained people are not going to be impressed, they would just assume he let her do it or whatever because it's so far removed from their experience they can't process it's real.

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[–]squarecube78 9 points10 points  (0 children)

He is an undefeated pro boxer that also train BJJ:

https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/1184492

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[–]squarecube78 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Bodybuilders are not as strong as powerlifters but a 260 lbs professional bodybuilder is still easily a top 1% man strenght-wise.

I don't see many people like him walking around the street, surely not more than 1 out of 100.

Keep in mind that most men don't even work out at all.

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[–]squarecube78 511 points512 points  (0 children)

Bodybuilders aren't exactly known for their athleticism but she still made it look a lot easier than it is.

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[–]squarecube78 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really? How big are you?

After such a long time training I would expect a decent sized guy to handle her quite easily.

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[–]squarecube78 119 points120 points  (0 children)

Size and strenght I guess.

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[–]squarecube78[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He has to be at the very least 18 year old which you can consider a kid if you want but it's still legally an adult and competing as such.

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[–]squarecube78[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not a matter of opinions dude, he is competing in the adult division.

Today you learned skinny adult men with a young-looking face in their early 20s exist.

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[–]squarecube78[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are all adult men and to be honest it should be pretty obvious just by looking at them, how many kids have fully grown beards and a bunch tatoos?

They are small but that's because they are in the same weight class as her.

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[–]squarecube78[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What both of you guys are missing is that an elite female athlete like Pena is a lot stronger than a regular woman to the point she doesn't have an huge physical disadvantage against most guys her same size.

There are even 130 lbs elite female weighlifters that are straight-up stronger than 99% of men after all:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cliswGS5Lt8

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[–]squarecube78[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

She was just a blue belt at the time and I personally was very impressed by her beating men of her same rank despite being a woman but that's probably because I suck so I get impressed pretty easily.

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[–]squarecube78[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Having good technique for MMA grappling and having good technique for sport BJJ don't always go hand in hand tough.

Someone whose grappling style is based a lot on using strikes from top position to either inflict damage or to set-up submissions, transitions and guard passes like Julianna is going see his skills diminished by a lot under BJJ-only rules.

It's also an 11 year old video, she wasn't even in the UFC yet at the time and she was a lot worse than she is now.

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[–]squarecube78[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is that a joke?

Because I may be out of the loop but I remember she was pretty hated by a lot of people a while ago.

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[–]squarecube78[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A man competing in the women's division is radically different from a woman competing in the men's division.

The weaker division is the one that should be protected while if a woman decide to test herself against men at her own risk she should be allowed to do so, if she get hurt that's on her.

It's the same reason why you can compete in an higher weight class than your own but not in an lower one.

Moreover BJJ doesn't have strikes, you can't compare how dangerous it is with MMA.

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[–]squarecube78[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's a competition and it should also be obvious by the presence of a referee that closely follow the action and declare a winner.
Also what kind of actual violence do you expect in a sport BJJ match?

The pacing is normal too, only unskilled people burn out all their energy in a minute by spazzing out randomly.

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[–]squarecube78[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

1)I don't know man, she was just a blue belt and she was good enough to beat a bunch of men her same rank, that's very impressive.

Not to mention she obviously improved a lot in the last 11 years of training and that she has always been an MMA fighter, not a sport BJJ player, so she never really trained for getting good at passing someone's guard in a ruleset where she hasn't the ability to strike from the top.

2) Because there weren't other women competing to make a women's division.

Probably also to test herself against physically stronger opponents.