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Anonymous at Mon, 2 Jan 2023 14:42:52 UTC No. 131195
I'm a man, I'm 1.65 tall (5'5) and I weigh 60 kilos (132 lbs). Is it true that lighter fighters wouldn't stand a chance against heavier fighters? No matter how much technique and training using weights to gain mass, I would never even have the strength to knock out? I would weigh more if I wasn't sedentary now and lifted weights, but I wanted to know what you guys think, because if this is true of not having a chance against stronger or heavier people then I won't even do mma or boxing so I don't waste my time. So in short, would i stand a chance against heavier and stronger people or can i fold since I wouldn't win anyway?
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Jan 2023 14:54:44 UTC No. 131197
People here don't train or fight
And your question is answered with yes and no
There was smaller guys beating bigger guys, it's just harder
If you think an untrained guy will be able to beat you just by being bigger if you are good at fighting? Hell no
Now a bigger fighter? Probably
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Jan 2023 15:01:12 UTC No. 131198
>>131197
A heavy trained guy against a lighter trained guy, so the lightweight can beat the heavy, only with more difficulty, is that it?
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Jan 2023 17:18:21 UTC No. 131203
>>131195
Considering two MMA amateurs that regurarly train and have proper technique, the light weight would lose from the heavyweight. Why? Because weight advantage exists.
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Jan 2023 17:19:42 UTC No. 131204
>>131203
If it's a street fight with untrained fighters, the heavyweight could lose if he/she lacks defence technique.
Anonymous at Mon, 2 Jan 2023 19:43:03 UTC No. 131211
>>131204
What makes you think the untrained smaller guy has offense and defense to explore it?
Bigger guy will pick you up and slam you
Learn how to fight on gyms, no on the internet
Anonymous at Tue, 3 Jan 2023 01:16:20 UTC No. 131235
As a general rule, if the skill is equal, then size will win. But a smaller skilled guy can beat a bigger guy either with style matchups or just being plain better.
As anecdotal examples, I train with two judo guys on our Olympic team, One is 60kg and one is 160kg, whereas I'm a 110kg wrestler/BJJ/MMA guy who's won nationals but I'm probably more of a hobbyist at this point (I only train about 5 times a week). Because I started out at 62kg training as a teenager in the adults class, the style I fell towards was one of using speed and hardly ever strength, which is something I carried over now that I'm 110kg. Because of this, I have a way easier time against the 160kg, as he's always been big and has a style developed to fight other big and strong guys, where he'll usually win out as most other big guys train as if they're the biggest and strongest, so will fight strength with strength, whereas I won't every try to outstrength him, and would rather use my energy to move around. Against the 60kg guy though, I feel like I'm in quicksand with how fast he moves, and because I'm so used to winning based on speed against other heavyweights, I don't think I've ever taken him down in Judo (wrestling is a different story but he's still more of a pain that just ankle picking the 160kg guy).
With styles that develop on weight classes, a lot of their techniques (especially as they're taught in modern days) will assume you're fighting someone of a similar size, so they might not be as applicable to everyone, though I'm sure if you asked your coach "if I was fighting a bigger guy, what should I do?" they'll be able to show you more specialised stuff.
That being said, don't bother with combat sports if you just want to defend yourself in the street. It's a waste of time spending literal hours of your life every week training to get good enough that on the off chance you happen to get into a fight in the street where it's 1 on 1 and nobody has a weapon, you'll know what to do.