How would Wladimir Klitschko do....

even with a good sprawl he would be taken down at some point or another he's too tall, at 6'7 a guy can get a clinch then a takedown. Sure would be interesting because he's a strong athletic guy for his size and has some of the best punching power in the business. But it's hard to land his straight right if a guy's coming in at his knees.

 

Impossible to say. Like AJAX said though, anyone that long is always going to have difficulty on the ground with submissions because of the space they have to create to move. Unless someone wanted to die I doubt they would be dumb enough to stand with him.

 

The sprawl is the key here. Without it, he would be utterly doomed. If he developed a Pride era Cro Cop style sprawl, he might be fairly tough. He's got excellent hands and excellent size. His brother was also a kickboxer, so it's possible he can at least throw a leg kick.

The keys here would be the clinch and protecting his own legs. They're quite skinny, and I could see a good kicker breaking them down. I also don't think he would fair that well in a clinch.

So with a sprawl, he would be a mediocre but capable HW. Without a sprawl, he'd get arm barred faster than Choi.

 

If Tim Sylvia can do it...

 

Plus, if Wlad competed in MMA I'd expect him to lift some weights and come in at about 260- 270, more muscle bound like he was pre-Manny - his body can handle that easily. When you're that size you only really need basic skills. Sylvia just uses his 270 to lean on guys and wear them out. Look how Fedor struggled with taking down HMC who has no skills, size and weight is hard to overcome in mma.

 

Wlad is too tall to wrestle well. But i think he may have done some combat sambo in the military.

 

We are talking about a guy who must be pretty damn good at striking. He has the talent too. He boxes very well and he has done kick boxing so his striking should be first class.

Give him some grappling ability and it would be interesting.

 

with a good sprawl maybe he'd have an average ranking...(just maybe)
or maybe he'd still be reduced as a can...

but with a serious training in bjj , wrestling , muay thai and maybe even judo...i think he would do great. He already has the perfect boxing technic. and he's athletic too...so why not ?

but again , mma is just so different. The nature of this sport gives little to almost no chance to become ultra dominant or a "legend".

When you look at all the big names...
Such as GSP...even this guy for example , who's way WAY more versatile and talented than Serra , still ended up losing against that guy..

BJ Penn , another impressive talent...but here again , too many losses...

Quinton Jackson...now LHW champ , but even that guy had his record tarnished back when he was in japan....and he's not even "past" his prime yet..

same goes for the now seemingly invincible and incredible Anderson Silva.
(had a couple of defeats in japan too ).

There's a few exceptions of course...But they're very rare.
It's a sport where even the "cans" become a potential threat...anything can happen.

 

i think its really funny that most people think that boxers wont do **** in mma and vica versa.

these guys are physical talents who want a fight. they dont give a **** about what type it is, they just happen to be in different types of fight. hatton, klits did kickboxing, cintron did wrestling etc thats a few example of guys not giving a ****.

generally due to training, experience etc boxers won't fair well in mma against a mma and vica versa. however i think there are boxers who could be good mma and mma who could be good boxers.

good mma who could become good in boxing if they chose - GSP, Jackson, Liddell, Couture, Cro etc

similarly guys like Cintron, Hatton etc could do well in mma.

 

He can break dance. I'm sure he would have a good sprawl and given a couple of years to train he would be able to develop some submission defense.