VID Big Name Fighters in WTF Fights

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Sometimes fights make sense.

Two competitors face off and you're so excited that these two incredibly evenly matched, talented warriors are going to determine who's best. Promotional hype has built the event up and you have no idea what's going to happen because the fighters seem so close in skill and heart. Fights like Aldo vs. McGregor have this feel. BJ Penn vs. Nick Diaz was another one. Jones vs. Cormier was perhaps the most recent. In boxing, there was Hagler vs. Hearns, Holyfield vs. Tyson and Ali vs. Frazier among hundreds of others.

Then there are fights that when you see them or hear they happened, your only reasonable response is "WTF?"

Here's to them.

 

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Masakatsu Funaki vs. Roberto Duran

Pancrase founder and former champion Masa Funaki somehow squared off against former LW and WW and MW boxing champion Roberto "Manos de Piedra" Duran.

 

[teamquestnorth]

Randy vs Toney

Fedor vs half his opponents

Cm punk vs any mma fighter

 

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Following along in a similar vein, Funaki's friend and fellow King of Pancrase Minoru Suzuki somehow thought that lacing on a pair of boxing gloves to fight kickboxer and future UFC HW champion Maurice Smith was a good idea.

It wasn't.

 

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Unlike the first two, which defy all reason and logic, this next fight falls firmly under the realm of the freakshow fight Japan was famous for. UFC 1-4 champion Royce Gracie was contracted to fight sumo champion Akebono. Critics are still sharply divided over who was at a greater disadvantage.

 

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And there's the granddaddy of them all: Muhammed Ali vs. Antonio Inoki. What started as a pro-wrestling match quickly became a weird match that made little sense and still doesn't, despite subsequent revisionism.

 

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Despite not being able to do much in Invicta and having already lost to women's BW queen Ronda Rousey, Ediane Gomes first came to the internet's (and the world's) attention after fighting a male fighter in the Rio Heroes promotion down in Brazil. Neither the male fighter nor Gomes are exactly big names, but this fight generated a lot of internet buzz so I included it. Spoiler: She wins.

 

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"Big name" is sort of relative, but Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson was an internet sensation for knocking fools out down in South Florida. Eventually, after a few back and forth internet challenges, he met sometime MMA fighter and police officer Sean Gannon in a random gymlike area surrounded by bedlam. Note Kenny Florian and some other MMA personalities screaming in the background.

 

[Zeph]

Sometimes fights make sense.

Two competitors face off and you're so excited that these two incredibly evenly matched, talented warriors are going to determine who's best. Promotional hype has built the event up and you have no idea what's going to happen because the fighters seem so close in skill and heart. Fights like Aldo vs. McGregor have this feel. BJ Penn vs. Nick Diaz was another one. Jones vs. Cormier was perhaps the most recent. In boxing, there was Hagler vs. Hearns, Holyfield vs. Tyson and Ali vs. Frazier among hundreds of others.

Then there are fights that when you see them or hear they happened, your only reasonable response is "WTF?"

Here's to them.

Was there supposed to be a vid with this thread?

edit: nvm

 

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Butterbean may seem like a joke in MMA circles, but in the proto-MMA event Toughman, he was nearly unstoppable. Several years out of his prime, the Bean faced the son of famed fighter Rei Zulu who inaugurated Rickson Gracie's career. Zuluzinho lacked his father's musculature and was a flailing bulk of a man more than anything, but when Pride ran out of ideas, this is what they turned to. Butterbean also faced such notables as Genki Sudo and Cabbage Correia and Zuluzinho would go on to face the great Fedor Emelianenko in an equally puzzling fight.

 

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If you're looking for something that doesn't even make sense to read, much less watch, it doesn't get any weirder than former baseball player Jose Canseco vs. giant Hong Man Choi. I can't stop laughing just typing that.

 

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Masakatsu Funaki vs. Roberto Duran

Pancrase founder and former champion Masa Funaki somehow squared off against former LW and WW and MW boxing champion Roberto "Manos de Piedra" Duran.

Was this a work?

 

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And if Canseco slugging it out with Choi wasn't enough, there's always Spider-Man kicking the holy crap out of Batman and Robin in a 2 vs. 1 MMA match in the UK.

 

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Wasn't Jose canseco supposed to fight Shaq?

 

[BJTT-Rizzo]

The one that started the Butterbean mma train-

 

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All the Giant Silva Pride fights were WTF is this.

 

[Psychotropic Wanderlust]

these are great!!

 

[La Paix]

 

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How could Bob Sapp not be on this list?

Here he is facing off against a pretty decent wrestler dressed up as an anime character.


View: https://youtu.be/54wAIiMvUlQ