2019 NFL Week Spam: The New Thread

[Andalusian girls]

i remember the Jappos brought one of their pros in once and gave him to Fedor then Cro Cop for his only two professional bouts ever poor fuckin bastard

[Andalusian girls]

that said some of the cats with legit martial arts backgrounds like Sakuraba and Lesnar put in work

[Anoat]

I think Jake Hager still undefeated in Bellator even though he definitely should have been DQ for a low blow in one fight

[Anoat]

I think Dave Batista went 1-0 in mma and called it a day and decided to be Drax

[Krandor]

that said some of the cats with legit martial arts backgrounds like Sakuraba and Lesnar put in work

You mention those two but leave off Minoru Suzuki, come on now son

[Xno Kappa]

The Almighty Bobby Lashley had a pretty respectable MMA career.

[Xno Kappa]

Kurt Angle probably could’ve been a champion in the early to mid 2000s.

[Melena]

Yeah, people dunk on C.M. Punk but dude was like 42 when he first got into the ring and started training late. Those who took it seriously and started training in their late 20's/early 30's and made the jump and have done well. Matt Riddle is another one, though he was MMA before wrestling and quit because he was tired of losing matches cause he'd rather smoke a blunt.

[Andalusian girls]

nah fam like two or three have done ok-to-well the others got tuned up by journeymen or barely had a presence

[Andalusian girls]

I think Dave Batista went 1-0 in mma and called it a day and decided to be Drax

i had no idea / totally forgot Bautista went in



but i do see why he went off to acting my man was getting chewed up on the feet by tons of fun

[Melena]

What big names in wrestlign went on and got tooled? I don't follow MMA extensively, but the only one I know who really got his face caved in is Punk. Found this list here of specific WWE wrestlers who went in and really not seeing who failed that also wasn't a failure in WWE, or Punk who was just way too old to do it.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ompeted-in-mma

And then there's Japan, in part due to Anotnio Inoki's obsession with MMA, a lot of japanese wrestlers in the late 90's got involved to varying degree's of success.

[Andalusian girls]

i mean

by that list itself Lesnar is the only one to have a successful career

most other pro wrestlers like Lashley or whomever ate bad stoppage losses to mediocre fighters (Lesnar ate a buncha bad stoppages too but at least they were to elite fighters)

[Andalusian girls]

Severn too i guess but he did both careers simultaneously

[Melena]

Ehh, I wouldn't go as far as being a wash out for all of them. Lashley I think if he stuck with it would have been fine. Guess we can skip Shamrock as he spent his prime in wrestling, went back to MMA, then back to wrestling again.

[Rhyis.]

does ken shamrock count as a pro wrestler

[Andalusian girls]

honestly the amount of guys that did pro wrestling and early MMA either simultaneously or back and forth just makes me think how fuckin juicy they musta been. absolute murder on the body.

[Rhyis.]

90s mma fighters were the juiciest of the juicy. frank shamrock looked like a greek god

[Xno Kappa]

In Batista’s case, it was always a one and done for him because he said it was just a bucket list thing to check off. He never had any intention to make it a career.

[Melena]

does ken shamrock count as a pro wrestler

Dude had a several year career with WWE, and essentially carried TNA Impact on his back in the very early days when it nearly died out. If he chose to stay with that over MMA, he would have gone far. Hell, The Rock was the one to induct him into TNA Impacts Hall of Fame just a couple months ago.

[Krandor]

Alberto Del Rio's shining achievement in MMA was getting murdered by CroCop while wearing a lucha mask