Which fighters would have excelled in MMA?

[famicommander]

Dat Nguyen.
Pro boxing: 20-3-0-0
Pro bare knuckle boxing: 3-1-0-0 (won BKFC and Police Gazette 135lb title, moved up to 155 and got robbed blind against the reigning champion)
High school varsity folkstyle wrestler
Amateur Kickboxer
Kempo Karate practitioner as a kid

His first combat sports coach happened to teach boxing, kickboxing, and karate so he learned all three, then wrestled in middle school and high school. Eventually it became clear he was a special boxer so he dropped all the other sports.

[Mysterian]

Every champion ever.


MMA is a baby sport that's yet to be populated by real talent. I'm not saying the athletes themselves are ****, I'm saying they train for and become good at fads because the sport is still evolving into a matured sport.

It's totally possible to box like a great boxer and wrestle like a great wrestler. The rest of what they do is a bunch of foolishness. I have little respect for stuff like ju-jitsu and aikido and such nonsense. The greatest MMA fighters of all time are still the early prizefighters and soldiers in eras before wars were done by formation.

-Marchegiano