Serious Question Now......Do any of you guys think Nakamura would be a decent MMA competitor?
>Unbelievable use of his knees
>Has a MMA background
>Great at Submissions
>Has knowlege on how to use his legs
>>1357621
Mark
>>1357621
Well, considering he has already had a short career in MMA, and it was decent.
Yeah.
>>1357628
I literally remembered that while typing this in.
>>1357628
>>1357631
Eh, maybe if he'd started training to actually fight from the start and hadn't gone into such a physically draining career as pro wrestling. He's had meh showings, even if he won, against absolute nobodies. He's also already 36 which is "consider retirement" age in MMA. He probably had a better shot than most at transitioning to a halfway sort of decent MMA career a few years ago.
>>1357641
Fair enough, I dont have much understandings about the ages and all that in MMA since I personally only started getting into it but I can understand that.
He lost to prime cro cop which is nothin to be ashamed of
He's literally a broken old man so no
>>1357641
>Eh, maybe if he'd started training to actually fight from the start and hadn't gone into such a physically draining career as pro wrestling
You act like MMA was a recent thing for him.
He did this shit back in '04.
>>1357645
40 is pretty much cutoff date, same with any combat sport. Only really legit fighters and straight up gifted dudes get to around that age and can keep competing at a non-embarrasing level. You'll see many go past that date and try to keep clawing at the sport to maybe some success at C and D tier promotions using whatever name value those dudes have for a quick buck.
Nakamura could do that and crush a can a year in Japan, but why risk himself and his pro wrestling career? Though if we're talking hypotheticals, if he'd actually worked a light pro wrestling schedule and trained to fight legit seriously from an early age? He probably could've made places at least in Japan.
>>1357668
The question was if he'd be a decent MMA competitor. Right now? No, for the reasons I gave. He took a few fights against nobodies, one of which he lost against a 30 year old man going into his second ever pro fight who now has a starling 5-4 record. Hardly a serious foray.
If he'd actually focused on training legitimately rather than splitting time between a pro wrestling schedule and preparing for little freakshow events done to satisfy Inoki's "pro wrestlers can fight" boner? Then he might've gone places if a decent camp capitalized on his physical gifts.
