Posted on 02/18/2023 7:30:24 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
Greg Hardy, the former Pro Bowl defensive end whose NFL career ended because of a domestic violence accusation, has taken up a second career as a pro fighter. His latest fight did not go well.
Hardy has signed with an organization called Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, which promotes boxing without gloves. In his first fight on Friday night, he was knocked cold by Josh Watson, a mediocre fighter he was handed as his first bare knuckle opponent in an attempt to give him an easy win.
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The eggs Florentine are delicious btw. I should enjoy eating b4 getting distracted-but then you can’t make this stuff up!
Maybe he should go back to beating up women.
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...and be careful to avoid the trannies.
Its just not the same when they hit back.
Meh, even the toughest get knocked out by “lucky punches” that hit the exact right spot at the right angle to knock a person out. Most punches just barely miss the “knockout spots”, and will stagger the person Instead.
FiGhts in the old days were bare knuckles and went for as many rounds as the contestants could manage without falling over from sheer exhaustion. Some fights went around 100 rounds. Most thouhg were over in pretty short order as bare knuckles hit a bit harder than with mma gloves even.
There is a mixed martial, arts fighting style that only used open hand strikes, can’t remember the name of it now, but Baz rhuttin (spelling?) Was a master at it.
Now thye have this idiotic “slap fighting” trend where opponents stand there and get slapped stupid. Slapping is different than fighting. Can’t stand to watch 2 people slapping each other mental.
That is what happens when you swing wildly. You open yourself up to the southpaw.
Butch Coolidge and Mickey O’Neil approve . . .
The poor lad got out of the NFL body breaker into the meat grinder of bare knuckles boxing. He either loves pain or he must not want to live to old age.
Somebody should tell him eggs Florentine’s better.
Look up Lenny MacLean - the Governor. One of the toughest. I remember learning about Dada 5000 with backyard brawls down in Miami. Slapping is boring, IMO. I just don’t see the athleticism in it....certainly no cardio.
I watched that video about five times and still couldn’t see the punch that knocked him out. Obviously the boxer didn’t see it either.
I’ve seen ex college and pro football players fight in MMA on several occasions.....the football background doesn’t generally seem to translate to fighting very well.
The time the ex football players were dedicating to that sport puts them behind the curve in terms of technique and experience. .......just my 2 cent
Thanks- I will check him out. I was watching mma since the pride fighting days, and have .watched a great many really good champions through the years come out. Awhile back they had videos of bare knuckles fighter Kimbo slice. Everyone thought he was gonna dominate after watching some of his brutal wins- but mma was moving towards more skills than just boxing, a d as such he didn’t quite ,I’ve up to the hype. He wasn’t a terrible fighter, and definately had boxing skills, but kinda fizzled out when opponents discovered his weakness to leg kicks. Sadly he died at fairly young age.
The pride devision which fought overseas, was a brutal no holds barred decision, and fighters in thay devision had to be super tough. One of th3 best to some out of it was the emperor Fedor Emilianko. So many really tough fighters Im That devision thouhg. I was also lucky to watch the first mma ultimate fighter championship boutique between Forrest Griffith and the American psycho stephan bonner. Wow what a boutique that was. Back In the early days of mma under Dana whites club, fights were really something to watch, but then came all the regulations which kind of killed the sport a bit as far as only the toughest prevailing. Today it seems it’s mostly wrestling and jui jitsu, which I don’t really care to,watch.
Fight Club!
“Mixed martial, arts fighting style that only used open hand strikes”
Most of the techniques of the arts include closed hand strikes. Probably the closest to what you are talking about is Judo and only there under certain conditions. For instance, IJF/Olympic SPORT JUDO” does not allow striking techniques.
Sport Judo is limited to techniques not likely to cause injury to either player so players can compete without the likelihood of injuries. But the martial art of Judo normally includes strikes, throws/take-downs, choking techniques, and joint-locking techniques as well as weapons. So what you see in the Olympics may be what you are asking about.
Some Judo schools only teach Sport Judo. For those Judoka, Judo is nothing but a sport that doesn’t include strikes, or many of the original core techniques of Judo. There are also many Judo schools in the US that teach the martial art of Judo, although even there most students will first study and learn just sport Judo until they have a basic mastery of those techniques.
Wy69
this was something different- - it was a mix of kickboxing and Pancrase- the open hand ‘bone strike’ (hits with the inner forearm bone, or palm of hand but keeps hand open to be within the rules)
Here is a video of him- his fights start around 1:30 into the video-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ2KVKm2NGo
The competitive art of Pancrase was a sport art created by the Greeks and tried to use the best of all the martial arts.
The rules allowed closed-fisted punches, except to the head, and palm strikes to the head. This was done as much to protect the competitors both throwing and receiving the blow to the head. But like Judo, the head blows of the art were redefined for sport purposes but were still taught in the study. Do they exist, yes. Just not used under certain instances like competition so unless you study, you won’t see them.
wy69
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