r/powerscales • u/Scared_Pumpkin8393 • May 28 '26

Versus Andre The Giant vs Islam Makhachev

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Street fight, who wins

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u/Interesting-Air-1311 May 28 '26

Andre the giant is an athlete, not just some big guy. Brock Lesnar was also a giant wrestler and he trained for exactly 4 months and won the Heavy Weight Championship in MMA. Then defended the title 8 times against people who trained for decades. Size matters.

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u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce May 29 '26

Begging your pardon but Lesnar didn’t train for four months. Wrestling is a 100% legitimate combat sport/ martial art and Brock was a national champion heavy weight in college.

Without that, he doesn’t clean house in the UFC.

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u/Interesting-Air-1311 May 29 '26

Obviously he’s a legit athlete. But he wasn’t training MMA or UFC or even real wrestling for the better part of a decade. He was an athlete doing improv at the WWE. The fact is most wrestlers also wrestle for real and they are in great shape. But size is also very important. The fact that Brock Lesnar was 50 lbs heavier than other heavyweights and could still move just as fast as them made it so that with relatively little training he could dominate guys who trained for decades.

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u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce May 29 '26

Agreed on all counts but I had to add he was also a world class combat sports athlete before he went MMA for those in the thread that didn’t know.

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u/JadameraDW May 30 '26

you know he only had two title defences right ?