I can't believe this dumb **** is going on again.
Yes, size matters.
If you have a longer reach you can hit from further away and if you train the right arts that's not to say you don't still have a good inside game.
If you're shorter you have a lower centre of balance so theoretically throws should be better for you, but you have less leverage to apply.
If you are heavier you'll be harder to throw, assuming you're not some unbalanced freak.
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But look at fingerprints... there are sooooo many different body types this conversation's pointless.
My karate teacher was 5'10" and really really fat (I'd guess 250 lbs)... and he could move like greased lightning and hit hard.
My jo teacher was maybe 5'7", in his late sixties, really thin, and appeared quite slow, and he could hit me every time with that stick, with adequate power to bruise in very light controlled sparring.
My side-handle baton, riot and restraint teacher was about 6', about 180 lbs and I couldn't get an arm-bar or any joint lock on him, pin him, or effect him in any way by cranking the ends of the side-handle baton into his nerve points if I did manage to pin him... he would not submit.
My MMA teacher is 5'6", 170 lbs, and can take me down and submit me at will. Though his stand up skill are very very strong, if I can keep him out at my range he has trouble... until he decides to shoot and take me down... !:D
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That's just some of the size, suppleness, speed, positioning and training issues in the martial arts. Not including things like fast, strong big people I've trained with who is inherently useless at MA and can't do any techs (like a simple punch!) or get the right positioning... etc. If you think any one of these factors does not matter, you are deluding yourself.
Now that's cleared up (again) let's get onto the meat of the thread... assuming Lee was alive he'd take it easily.
Sapp gasses easily even now, he can't take a punch (in the arm, in the head, anywhere), his footwork and kicking suck and he can't take a kick either, his ground game is to turtle leaving his head open, he has no takedowns.
Lee at least had good conditioning, practised diligently and seemed to have a natural aptitude for MA (so could probably pick up a takedown and submission or two in a week of training rather than Sapp, who doesn't seem to have managed one in three years). We don't know if he could take a punch, but Hawkins Cheung and Wong Shun Leong seemed to think he could, and we don't know if he could punch hard, but ditto, plus people like Jessie Glover can punch hard and he seemed to think Lee was good.
Assuming she got the sucker punch cos of the surprise element of being a sweet little old lady, my granny could beat Bob Sapp.
BTW, he was in the Japanese movie Devilman. As an actor he makes a world champion Pride fighter. :eek: :eek: :D What next for the monotalented Bob Sapp? (I'm assuming he was good at football...!?)