seekntruth;n20680 said:
Wow, loving this fight! Has an old school open-weight feel to it with the size difference.
Dude I agree and had to comment on this
When I was watching the fight, it started to make me think about how amazing guys like Sakuraba were. Sakuraba, with today's trainign methods and weight cutting, would fight at 155 lbs, no doubt at all. I honestly think Benson is a bigger dude than Sakuraba is
Now think of the fact Sakuraba fought these fuckers in their PRIME - Mirko CroCop, Igor Vovchanchyn (and was actually doing really well despite fighting Royce for 90 minutes on the same night!), Wanderlei Silva (THREE TIMES), Rampage Jackson (beat him), Randleman (Beat him too), Shamrock, and a hell of a lot more gigantic dudes he should have never been in there with.
Seriously the old days were so crazy. I mean I'm sitting there the whole time thinking "wow the size difference is so crazy here".. then when you look back on those days, you go OH WAIT.. haha... Those dudes were just a different fucking breed man. That's just how it was back then, nobody even thought twice about it. But Saku in particular, man, what a bad ass.