Do regular 6ft+ big guys have an advantage over short buff guys in a fight?

[Cheek busting]

lol but anyway being taller gives you certain advantages but they can be overcome

Height can be an advantage, or a disadvantage.

A guy with shorter arms, if allowed to dictate the distance,and pace of the fight, can get on the inside,and turn his hooks and uppercuts over faster.

It's all about who can enforce their attributes - IMO, though,it is easier to enforce a height advantage. Although short guys can master implementing their inside game - bobbing and weaving under jabs,and doubling jabbing to get inside, where they can set up vicious hooks to the head and body, as seen int his video.

[HeadShots]

it's an advantage to be taller with more reach. it's even more of an advantage in MMA because of the plum clinch.

all the P4P's are tall for their weight class.


Jon Jones. Anderson. GSP. Conor. etc

[HeadShots]

Height can be an advantage, or a disadvantage.

A guy with shorter arms, if allowed to dictate the distance,and pace of the fight, can get on the inside,and turn his hooks and uppercuts over faster.

It's all about who can enforce their attributes - IMO, though,it is easier to enforce a height advantage. Although short guys can master implementing their inside game - bobbing and weaving under jabs,and doubling jabbing to get inside, where they can set up vicious hooks to the head and body, as seen int his video.

ya all the bumrushing. bobbing and weaving also translates to more work. they need a much better gas tank.

[iamboxing]

LMAO but to answer the question I've seen short guys beat taller guys using grappling and takedowns. Rarely can a shorter guy beat a much taller guy just standing up in the streets

I agree, but this is a boxing forum. Change your avatar, wankstain.

[Real King Kong]

Is this common when a short guy fights a big 6ft guy?

Yes...that's what happens every single time.

[Cheek busting]

ya all the bumrushing. bobbing and weaving also translates to more work. they need a much better gas tank.

Well said - which is why you see shorter guys with that style have very short primes (obviously there's some exceptions I'm sure).

But on the right night, a short guy can give a tall guy all kinds of problems if he does everything right. On the inside, shorter arms are an advantage.

[Thraxox]

Well said - which is why you see shorter guys with that style have very short primes (obviously there's some exceptions I'm sure).

But on the right night, a short guy can give a tall guy all kinds of problems if he does everything right. On the inside, shorter arms are an advantage.

It depends on What you define by size. Shorter people can be quite big you know. Canelo's only 5'7-5'8 and mostly he destroys people taller than him.

Shawn Porter is only 5'7 yet he is far bigger than the 5'9 Paulie Malinaggi. Porter was only out sized when he fought a very bulky 5'9 Kell Brook.

A Tall 6ft with a very lanky chicken legs build could easily be out fought and out muscled 5'6 guy if they are at the same weight.

[bluepete]

On the street people tend to stand and trade not use reach. So it's not so much that. Obviously being bigger is generally an advantage in everything. I have found that the nastiest most vicious guys tend to be the smaller ones. I think even gangland bears this out. Casso, Gravano, Spilotro, or the Krays and Frank Fraser.Smaller guys are more likely to stab you while you throw left jabs lol.

[them_apples]

short buff guys do worse then short skinny guys lol. Short naturally stocky guys can do well though. they have big structures but are just short. Jacked up little man sydnrome dudes probably fair the worst

[Furn]

A good big guy beats good small guy isn't that what they say.