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Gerald Ford vs. Teddy Roosevelt, no holds barred MMA fight. Who wins?
Despite his portrayal as a clumsy oaf, Gerald Ford was almost certainly the best athlete to ever serve in the White House. He was a legendary college football player who won two national championships at the University of Michigan, and was MVP of the team in his senior year. Ford turned down contract offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, but turned down a career in the NFL in order to attend law school. Ford was a avid skier until his 80s and continued swimming regularly for exercise into his 90s, and he would have had a notable size advantage over Theodore Roosevelt.
However, if someone genuinely knows what they are doing during a mixed martial arts fight, they are going to be very difficult to defeat -- even against an opponent who might be a superior athlete in every other sense. That has been a lesson learned throughout the growth of MMA as a mainstream sport dating back to Royce Gracie easily handling much bigger opponents in the early UFC with his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Or Rickson Gracie calmly controlling and systematically dominating literally everyone he fought in Japan, no matter who Pride FC threw at him.
Theodore Roosevelt would be giving up quite a bit of size and athletic ability against Gerald Ford, but TR was an early student of martial arts. As President -- in the White House itself -- Roosevelt kept active with wrestling (always the best foundation for a mixed martial artist) and boxing. And he was among the first Americans to actually train in jiu jitsu and judo, receiving lessons directly from the legendary Yamashita Yoshiaki. Because of that experience, I think Theodore Roosevelt probably would have given any of his fellow Presidents a rough day at the office if they had an MMA fight, no matter how big or strong or athletic his opponent might be.
#What if?#Great questions#Theodore Roosevelt#President Roosevelt#Gerald Ford#President Ford#Presidents#Presidential Brawls#Martial Arts#Jiu jitsu#judo#Wrestling#Boxing#MMA#Mixed Martial Arts#Gracie Jiu Jitsu#Royce Gracie#Rickson Gracie#UFC#Pride FC#University of Michigsn#Presidential Athletes#History
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my homie found a DVD set of Pride 1-5 and sent em to me. Included were some sticky notes with classic Vitor Belfort quotes lmao.
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Bjj in mma
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Mark Coleman went into his parents enflamed home to rescue them from a fire. He went back in for the family dog and succumbed to smoke inhalation. He got airlifted to a hospital and is finally awake and responsive! Happy that Coleman is still with us. Hopefully he can pull thru and make a full recovery.
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next year the tumblr girlies should get into MMA the same way they got into pro wrestling
we should be relentless in our quest to make every part of 2000′s dudebro culture queer. i want at least five Conor MacGregor/Yoel Romero fanfics covering every kink
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Pride FC Grand Prix 2004
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🕯 Palaestra devotional moodboard 🕯
#florida wrestling#gorgeous george#mid-south wrestling#uwf#mildred burke#roman baths#ruins of a palaestra (greek wresting arena#russian sambo#vasili oshchepkov#pride fc#pride mma#jmma#Mestre Tatu#luta livre#brazilian jiu jitsu#vale tudo#Pankration#mma#pro wrestling#classic wrestling#grappling#territory wrestling#gladiator#gladiatrix#catch wrestling#catch as catch can#olympic wrestling#Greco-Roman wrestling#free style wrestling#folkstyle wrestling
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Big Van/Super Vader
Vader, while not being being in the top 10 wrestlers of all time, may have made the most impact in wrestling if anyone.
If there was no Vader, he couldn't be brought in to beat Inoki in less than 5 minutes, which would mean there'd be no Sumo Hall riot.
No Sumo Hall riot means there's no UWF reborn. Which means no rise of Takada.
No UWF reborn means no UWFi for Takada to really become a star and Vader to compete in.
No Vader & no super hot series that really made UWFi with Takada.
Without the UWFi there'd be no NJPW vs UWFi invasion angle in Japan.
No UWFi invasion means that Eric Bischoff couldn't steal the gimmick for the NWO.
No NWO and no Monday Night Wars between the WCW and WWE which means no attitude era.
Back in Japan, no Takada and we'd not have PRIDE which means no Royler, Renzo or Sakuraba.
No reborn UWF means no Akira Maeda in RINGS meaning no Volk Han, Kopylov or Kohsaka.
No RINGS means no King of Kings tournament which means RINGS never goes full legit shoot.
RINGS not doing full legit shoots means that Emelianenko Fedor never appears on the scene.
Also - No Sumo Hall Riot means that Fujiwara doesn't leave NJPW to form Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi with his trainees: Funaki, Suzuki and Shamrock.
Without Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi and Fujiwara not wanting his stars to fight legit, Funaki, Suzuki and Shamrock would never have formed Pancrase.
No Pancrase and means that Minoru Suzuki and Ken Shamrock never become huge stars.
No Pancrase and Shamrock never comes to the UFC and doesn't become the foil to Royce Gracie.
Was the sumo hall riot drama legit? Did #NJPW have to cut wrestler pay, which sent young rising stars trained by Maeda & Fujiwara elsewhere?
Or was it an Inoki angle gone awry? Was it all on him, or was it just an effect of a million things happening backstage with Chosu, Maeda & who knows who-else?
I just found it fitting that Vader welcomed the first shooter into the WWE as a star: Ken Shamrock.
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“This tune goes so hard it makes me want to take a shit standing up just to see what happens. This tune makes me want to spin-kick toddlers and eat glass. And the best way to explain Jon Jones’ driving abilities is that this track is the only song on his made-for-driving Spotify playlist.” - Napoleon Blownapart, ‘Never Die 1’
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Bas Rutten Full Episode
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Kazushi Sakuraba for Pride FC promotional posters, getting the beatdown from his mom and wife respectively.
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The UFC Plans To Leave USADA Drug Testing Program
"This Could Be The Return Of The Roid Monkeys"
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Some serious nonsense appears to be afoot here as the UFC announced that they would be leaving USADA and would not use them as a drug testing agency starting in January of 2024.
The main source of tension here between USADA and the UFC, is that the UFC really want Conor McGregor back in the octagon and that means they need him to be cleared by thier trusted drug testing agency, USADA.
The problem with that, is that if you've seen pictures of Conor lately, you know that there's something way off about the guy.
There is no drug testing agency worth it's needles, that can give any kind of clearance to Conor and after reportedly recieving a sample, USADA and the UFC have chosen to part ways.
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Dana has since done what he usually does and appeared on some of the major platforms to spin the narrative as something that is completely USADA's fault, and this time Dana may actually get what he wants.
You have to understand that there are many layers in the public discussion as it relates to USADA.
UFC fighters for the most part, hate dealing with USADA, they hate the rules around year-round testing, they hate actually interacting with the people doing the testing and ultimately, don't trust that USADA have succeeded in making the sport safer.
Then there is the contingent of UFC fans that are dumb enough to think that an unregulated sport, with no limits on use of performance enhancing drugs would be better.
These fans are the biggest idiots in the MMA content creation space because they ignore how much the UFC had to go through in order to legitimize the sport in the eyes of both the Nevada and New York State Athletic Commissions.
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But worse than any fans and content creators, is the apparent willingness on the part of Chael Sonnen to sell his audience the idea that USADA should have "played ball with Conor".
I'm not shocked by Chael doing this, I have long since stopped regarding him as an honest and credible voice even if I do write about him when writing about MMA. The point is, dude is a shill and I won't tolerate a dishonest person just because thier funny.
The combination of all these differing sentiments towards USADA have all given Dana White just enough leeway to sell the idea that leaving USADA is a good thing, and worse yet, some are floating the idea that the UFC should operate as it's own drug testing agency.
It's obvious what the dumb fans want, the problem is because Dana has exerted so much control over MMA in the media, he could possibly give them what they want, which is an unsanctioned, unregulated combat sport.
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I have written quite a few blogs about how Dana White and the UFC simply have too much power in the sport, and effectively reversing the regulations around drug testing will prove to be the culmination of this unfettered power, and the only people risking anything are the fighters.
Essentially we have already seen what the UFC was trying to do because they are trying to usher in the return of the roid monkeys.
Dana wants to bring back Brock Lensar and a few of his multi-million dollar favorites, even at the cost of the sport's legitimacy, and because of how uneducted audiences are, and his own control over the media, he's going to pull this off.
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PRIDE NEVER DIE
#combat sports#pridefc#pride fc#mma#muaythai#catch wrestling#grappling#ufc#martial arts#bjj#kickboxing#rizin#dream#japan#2000s
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Anderson Silva vs Carlos Newton - PRIDE 25 | March 16, 2003
A throwback to Pride FC. An early career Anderson Silva faces off with former UFC welterweight champion Carlos Newton. It would be three years before Silva went to win the UFC middleweight title.
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