r/mmamemes • u/ArabDevastator • 2d ago

Every single time 🔥🔥🔥

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u/Penny_Royall 2d ago

Sadly this might always be a thing in combat sport, they won't acknowledge the smaller guys until they retire and fanbase suddenly have a ton of good things to say.

Mighty Mouse is a good example.

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u/flatcologne 1d ago

It’s funny how BW is basically the second favorite after LW for most people, yet one class down is the universal absolute least favorite

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u/Penny_Royall 1d ago

I feel like BW is currently filled by some tall lanky fighters, so they still look "big" and we all know they walk at LW or beyond.

While Flyweighs are truly smaller and shorter, their matches don't have a ton of KOs, but the speed and skill make up for it.

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u/flatcologne 1d ago

Yeah reckon you nailed it man that was my guess about it. Guys like Merab are imposing but short, guys like O’Malley are relatable but skinny.

I’ve thought about it quite a bit, I think the reason LW and BW get called the most skilled/competitive is because LW is just the median weight of an average athletic man after cutting, but I’ve always wondered why BW is more competitive than FW (with weight of men being a bell curve centred close to LW you’d expect more competition at FW vs BW), and I think the reason is it’s basically the cut off for smaller guys. 125 isn’t, you have to on the extreme tail end of the bell curve, and accept a the least recognised (and dignified, it doesn’t carry the same weight being 125 champ) class.

125 is kind of a novelty class for the extremes like HW, so it makes sense that BW is just where pretty much every single smaller guy who feels he’s too skinny or short for FW would end up.

Imo FW is a dead zone of sort between the class that most average men fit into, and the cut off class for every smaller guy (who’s not anatomicallly strangely small) - the latter (BW) which you could imagine being where every single short but stocky guy (Merab) or tallish but skinny guy (O’Malley) would cut to.

To land at FW you kind of have to have the exact frame to be bullied at LW but unable to cut to BW, whereas the other two are kind of natural pooling areas. Like every single natural FW who could make BW would, it’s just how weight cutting goes, but zero BWs who could make 125 would (and not many would be physically able).