Posted on 01/25/2008 7:10:03 AM PST by RDTF
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At Thursday night's debate, McCain had a response for the action star, who has endorsed Republican rival Mike Huckabee:
"Now that Sylvestor Stallone has endorsed me, I'm sending him over to take care of Chuck Norris right away."
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I can understand the HGH, to be honest. I mean, seriously.. you’re 61 and you’re going to play Rambo again. That’s a lot of pressure.
In a boxing match a prime Norris would last less than 10 seconds with a prime Norton. But in a mixed martial arts competition, all bets would be off.
Stallone, obvioulsy, shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath with either of them. ...as far as fighting is concerned.
IIRC he made porn movies in Sweden during the Vietnam War (he was dodging the draft). Some real Vietnam Vets weren’t too happy with his movie roll in Rambo.
If he wants to make it to 71 he should stay off the drugs. I hope the movie does well, look forward to it.
It was either Ken Norton or ernie shavers that hit stallone with a clean blow. I can’t remember which one. Probably the one that is closer to stallone’s height.
Shavers had one of the biggest punches in the history of boxing. He wasn’t much of a technician, but if he landed a clean blow the show was over.
Stallone is a perfect example of the kind of meathead who would support somebody like McCain.
“And now, we have Brad Pitt playing Achilles.”
Brad Pitt was as effective as playing Achilles as Al Pacino was portraying an American rebel in Revolution.
Also, Chuck was in the Air Force, but Norton was a Marine.
It is “Lone Wolf Mcwade](sorry about the spelling! ;>) )
I thought Sly found real guns to be "icky."
I'd put my money (all of it) on the real fighter.
Same here. Norton's top-level boxing ability combined with his considerable size/strength advantages would be a bit too much to overcome for Norris.
Boxers do quite well in MMA competitions once they learn the fundamentals of wrestling and a few submission holds. It'll be interesting to see if Floyd Mayweather Jr. backs up all the smack he's been talking and steps into the MMA ring.
Norris was a world champion martial artist.
Lee created a world-respected martial art (Jeet Kune Do).
OTOH, the same is true for a lot of martial arts fighters. My brother ran a dojo back when Lee, Norris, Alan Steen, and some of the other guys were on the scene. The guy I met that scared me the cr!p out of me was a little Korean guy named Yamashita. Rumor was that he was big in the South Korean mafia as a "problem solver" and solved one of the wrong problems and had to clear out to the US to keep from getting solved himself, if you get my drift. He never made these claims, but it was talked about a lot around him, although not in front of him. I have no idea if it was true or not. I only met him at tournaments, and he was extremely polite and formal. I saw him get mad, once. He did short sword and long sword demos, and could do stuff like toss an orange into the air and cut it in half, then quarter it before the orange separated from the first cut, really amazing stuff. Anyway, a couple of fighters were talking and laughing about something else close to where he was practicing, and he thought they were laughing at him. He turned on them with the sword still in his hands and said, "You laugh at Yamashita? I cut out your guts." He spoke in a low voice, but you had to see his face. He was about 5' 1." I've been around some fairly rough stuff, and this guy scared me to death, and he wasn't even talking to me. The other guys, who were darned tough tournament fighters, apologized in a very panicked way.
There are actors, sportsmen, and the real thing. Stallone is an actor.
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