Pudzianowski vs Najman

WAAAR PUDZIANOWSKI!

HOLY FISTFUCK that was awesome.

No it wasn’t. I think the referee attempting to armbar Pudz was cooler than the actual fight.

Very disappointing.

Ok the technical skill was awful, but damn that guy is strong. He was practically lifting his opponent off the ground with poorly executed leg kicks.

those leg kicks may not be pretty but i bet they were hard as fuck. This guy will be a force in mma, and im not a fanboy either, i fight. Give him some time.

[quote]Kevin_Meaux wrote:
Ok the technical skill was awful, but damn that guy is strong. He was practically lifting his opponent off the ground with poorly executed leg kicks.[/quote]

They may have not been “perfectly” executed leg kicks but the kicks worked perfectly well. In my book, what works counts most. It will be interesting to see him fight Lesnar, a guy who is much closer in weight and strength. Then skill might be more of a factor.

Not bad for his first fight. He’s gonna have to settle himself more next fight…especially against a more MMA-oriented opponent. I would hate for him to blow his wad to early.

Hopefully he will clean up his kicking technique as much as he can. Those kicks were hard,but telegraphed a mile away. Marquardt/Maia fight comes to mind with that. But still…not bad…and props for him getting in there…can’t wait to see if he develops into something nasty.

He should fight the Arild Haugen next :slight_smile:

Pudz would murder Haugen at this point. Hope Haugen makes the transition to MMA though! I’ll definately be following him, trained a few times at his gym and he seems like a really cool guy. Alot of top level bodybuilders and fitness athletes train there as well, probably the only gym in this part of the country with a log.

[quote]Kevin_Meaux wrote:
Ok the technical skill was awful, but damn that guy is strong. He was practically lifting his opponent off the ground with poorly executed leg kicks.[/quote]
Disagree.
The first kick pudz sends doesnt knock the guy down at all.
From then on, najman is looking only at pudz’s legs and is trying to jump out of the way.
The problem is that by doing that, you cause yourself to become less stable, and kicks are easier to knock you down.
You’ll see that one of the kicks doesn’t send him flying on it’s own, but it’s because he jumped with it.
27 and 29 seconds in.
I guess a boxer’s weakness really is his legs. If he would have tried to block it, or cut the kick off, he could stood his ground and been in range to use his “superior” boxing skills.
Imo, that guy is a huge fucking noob.

Sorry, I’m too lazy to write it all down again.
http://lukaspezenka.blogspot.com/

Simply amazing. Somebody with pudzies size strength and agility to have that much conditioning is incredible display of genetics - even if you count roids. Each fight he’s just going to get more and more dangerous.

People always want to say how some lightweight can win a fight even if somebody else is in better condition. But they never seem to stop and think about the fact that If you can only mention 1 person (Royce Gracie) then your argument is pretty lame. Simply put nobody else is him. Over and over consistent as day, if one person is leaps and bounds stronger bigger and decent skill than the other he wins. And Pudz is a Super genetic freak if anybody ever seen one. Didn’t he break somebodies arm, arm wrestling?

[quote]Airtruth wrote:
Simply amazing. Somebody with pudzies size strength and agility to have that much conditioning is incredible display of genetics - even if you count roids. Each fight he’s just going to get more and more dangerous.

People always want to say how some lightweight can win a fight even if somebody else is in better condition. But they never seem to stop and think about the fact that If you can only mention 1 person (Royce Gracie) then your argument is pretty lame. Simply put nobody else is him. Over and over consistent as day, if one person is leaps and bounds stronger bigger and decent skill than the other he wins. And Pudz is a Super genetic freak if anybody ever seen one. Didn’t he break somebodies arm, arm wrestling?[/quote]

Sure, and broke his trainers leg with a lowkick. Stuff happens.

However, there’s more than one example ;). Think Bruce Lee (I know, I know… something of a persona non grata around here… don’t exactly see why, though), think Buakaw Por Pramuk beating the crap out of Bob Sapp (bigger than the Thai, AFAIK), think Fedor (small guy for the heavyweights. Bit of a belly, too). Ok, now with Royce that’s 4 examples. Want me to continue?

Don’t get me wrong: Bigger dude has an advantage, no doubt about it. Still, it’s one piece of the puzzle, something that can be and often is compensated by technical skill and superior tactical understanding.

FightingIrish put it perfectly well when he said that a Baseballplayer will always win a baseball match over a basketball player (I think he used those examples, anyhow, you get the point). Same with fighting.

Anderson silva.

He does some ridiculous training… like having people throw balls at him while he dodges. He’s not massively muscular. He’s not great on the floor, I bet he’s not one of the strongest guys in his class. But jesus christ can he move and throw some heavy hands.

[quote]Ben_VFR85 wrote:
Anderson silva.

He does some ridiculous training… like having people throw balls at him while he dodges. He’s not massively muscular. He’s not great on the floor, I bet he’s not one of the strongest guys in his class. But jesus christ can he move and throw some heavy hands.[/quote]

Um, yeah. Just what I said, is it not? :wink:
Well, apart from not being great on the floor… I think he is, but then I’m a standup fighter, so maybe I lack the competence to judge that… (no sarcasm here)

Yeah man, thats my point, I’m adding to the list and backing you up!

[quote]Ben_VFR85 wrote:
Yeah man, thats my point, I’m adding to the list and backing you up! [/quote]

[both thumbs up for Ben, way up]

"All this stuff about “Who would win a fight? A boxer or a bodybuilder?” is just like asking “Who would win a basketball game? A baketball player or a soccer player?”. (I didn’t make this analogy up, it comes from a guy who calls himself “FightingIrish”, but I kind of like it.)
It seems obvious, only in MMA, the soccer players are winning those basketball games, to follow that line of thinking.

Of course, in a professional league suich as the UFC or strikeforce, Pudzian wouldn’t win so easily. Still, in a black belt magazine interview (April 2001), Rickson Gracie said that “…Just being big and well prepared is already a great advantage for him. That makes the smaller guy the underdog no matter what he does”. Apparentaly, this holds very true, especially in the heavyweight division."

interesting points…as it does seem that if you have a small HW fighting someone like that…they are in for a ride! Of course not all…(Fedor) but an interestnig point.

I’m no longer paying attention to guys sporting “professional boxer/boxing” on their MMA info cards. The vast majority of them are fucking terrible boxers and it shows just what shitty state of affairs boxing has been in recently, that they can turn professional with such low skill.

Fuck, we need a frakenstein experiment. Let’s take one of the few boxing elite or up and comers left, convince him to do MMA, and then train him up with the best of the best in BJJ, wrestling and maybe some thai boxing for good measure. The end result is potentially awesome.

[quote]Aussie Davo wrote:
…we need a frakenstein experiment. Let’s take one of the few boxing elite or up and comers left, convince him to do MMA, and …[/quote]

Doubtful because [the promise of real] Money Talks and [zuffa] Bullshit Walks.

[quote]Aussie Davo wrote:
I’m no longer paying attention to guys sporting “professional boxer/boxing” on their MMA info cards. The vast majority of them are fucking terrible boxers and it shows just what shitty state of affairs boxing has been in recently, that they can turn professional with such low skill.

Fuck, we need a frakenstein experiment. Let’s take one of the few boxing elite or up and comers left, convince him to do MMA, and then train him up with the best of the best in BJJ, wrestling and maybe some thai boxing for good measure. The end result is potentially awesome.[/quote]

Wouldn’t that “frankenstein experiment” (cross training, as far as I get it) be exactly what MMA guys are doing today? I’m not talking Pudzian here, but if you take a look at the who-is-who in the UFC, look at their coaches and sparring partners… well, basically it’s just that.

Everyone’s training with the best (which is, generally, very subjective) they can get/afford.

Pudzian, too, trained with Miroslaw Okninski, I dare say, the best man in Poland (eastern europe maybe, I don’t know) when it comes to BJJ. But then, of course, in that particular case, everyone falls back to his most basic level of training when under extreme stress - for Pudzian that meant relying on nothing else than (his tremendous) strength.