For Inoki, that’s like 42 in Euro years.
Would these guys have handled or crippled Ken and Royce at that age and swept the tourney?
Both have a lot more submission skills than Ken and both have a lot of size on Royce and wise to his game.
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They should have done Inoki vs. Ron Van Clief.
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Should have been van damme
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lol how did you find this thread? Inoki was a great athlete and I figure they must have trained him in enough catch to protect himself before giving him the franchise.
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RVD!
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Damn !
Billy Robinson would have been a beast in his younger days .
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Everybody has the sponge bob physique back then
Crazy core strength
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I broke my neck just watching it at 3:48.
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Gotch was a legend , so much influence on MMA especially the Japanese pioneers
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Billy Robinson born 1938
Rickson Gracie born 1959
That’s the fight I want to see - around 1983 - 1985.
Gotch conditioning for combat sports available at archive.org
Karl Gotch's Conditioning for Combat Sports : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Gotch would have been around 50 at the time and didn’t have a beef with the Sheik. Cool story though.
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Haku was about 40 then.
I have heard numerous wrestlers claim he was tougher than Shamrock and Lesnar. Of course, we’re talking about wrestlers so not sure how serious to take those opinions.
Haku was a former sumo wrestler who was willing to bite noses and gouge eyes in barfights.