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Originally Posted by Goodlad
One problem with your theory here is that every other Ed Hardy wearing popped-collared d-bag "trains" at an MMA gym these days. I blame the fact that there's now an MMA gym on every other street corner for the huge rise in general d-baggery in clubs in general. Granted most of these guys will get tuned up pretty bad by a professional fighter, but amateur boxing history aside I don't think that Lucic fits into that category. He might spend a few hours a week in a boxing gym during the off-season, but I doubt he finds the time during the regular season. There's more than a few guys out there that have enough training to land a lucky punch and take a guy like Lucic down, and for the vast majority of them the infamy being the guy to do it would gain them is more than worth the risk of getting dropped.
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again, a fundamental ignorance of martial arts and fighting. The fact that Lucic fights regularly is such a huge factor that no one is landing that lucky punch because even if you do hit him he has the muscle memory to know what to do. Case in point; the fact that he said the guy hit him a bunch of times and he had not a scratch on his face. The ability to know how to react when getting attacked based on experience makes him physiologically nearly unbeatable without a weapon, denying as much shows unfamiliarity with the subject at hand. Lucic has been in over 50 fights on the ice and that alone is nearly enough to make it almost impossible to hurt him. You'd have to hit him with a sucker punch when he's not looking or use a weapon.
For instance;imagine you're 6'5, 260 and you hit him as hard as you can with a hook. If he sees it coming his ingrained neural pathways will react in a way that creates defense before you hit(chin tuck, roll with the punch, move in the right direction, hands up etc.). Then you add on to the fact that the odds of getting the range perfect to land a %100 power shot is so small that it's nearly impossible, you couldn't do it unless you sneak up and he doesn't have time to react. There aren't many people that get to that stage, the large majority of people that learn mma or boxing(>90%) do not spar hard enough to have the same ability and react differently to getting hit (analogously Brock Lesnar vs. Mauricio Rua) if you'd like to talk about mma.