China has 1.4 billion, so the chances for outliers are higher, just like you got Yao Ming in Basketball. But the average Chinese person isn't a...
This analysis has already been done for US by John Nash who went through the trouble of writing to every athletic commission to collect all the...
Only a Chinese poster here can answer that for sure but I am doubtful because: Zhang is a HW, the most prestigious division in combat sports, a...
That wasn't close to a draw, Lopez was the clear winner If you are being very generous then at best you can give 2 rounds to Argilagos, his...
I wasn't saying affluence explained decling of US dominance in heavier weight classes with that sentence. Rather that was a response to these...
I don't think MMA has a good amateur system worldwide from what I have seen & its probably the same in Japan. That is not the case for Japanese...
You do realize that was several years ago (when Inoue was less well known) & that it was a WBSS tournament right? Part of these tournaments...
As I said in another thread what is possible in MMA isn't possible in Boxing because 1) Boxing has a much bigger global presence so it is very...
What happened to kickboxing after K1 was bought out & went through financial troubles. Kickboxing as a sport went through a deep downturn because...
UFC is a "global" platform & yet somehow it has little to no presence in a large chunk of Asia, Latin America etc. Hell it doesn't even have much...
haha you must be joking? Canelo, AJ, Fury, what do you think they are? 91,000 people didn't show up in Wembley for Fury vs Whyte if Fury had no...
Nothing biased about pointing out the fact that he couldn't even save the sport which had a massive market in Japan at that point, so how is he...
Ya I forgot that about Connor's Boxing record Derek Lewis I think explicitly said that he switched to MMA because he thought it was easier Don't...
Who denied that he was a big draw? Hatton was a big draw as well in UK btw. Just pointing out that a big part of his biggest PPV hits came due to...
He made the most money because of the era he fought in & his opponents, don't know why Floyd fans always bring up money without context May be...
