Who would earth send to a interplanetary fighting tournament right now?
To clarify this, let me lay down the rules:
- The tournament happens in 6 month from this day. That would be the time the fighter has to prepare.
- The tournament is weapon-free body combat. It is fought with minimal to no protection. Small fingerless fighting-gloves or feet protectors are allowed though, if the fighter wants to wear them.
- The aliens that will fight in the tournament can be assumed to be in a basic human-shaped form, i.e. have a torso, a head and 4 limbs. Proportions of these may vary though.
- The maximum weight of a fighter must not exceed 200 kg / 441 lbs. Below that no weight classes exist.
- Fights happens in boxing-ring type of arena. In rounds of 5minutes with a 1minute break in between. They can end in surrender (tapping out), knockout or even death. No point-system bullshit.
- "Dirty fighting" is allowed. As it is unkown where the weakspots of each alien race are, there are no forbidden hitzones. Whatever you think are weakspots (eyes, crotch, small limbs, etc.) you are good to go for these. The only thing the referee looks for is one of the losing conditions mentioned above.
- At stake is humanities freedom. All losing species must serve the winner as slaves for a decade until the next tournament.
So now the main question: WHO WOULD WE SEND? You may name one fighter and one stand-in, if one gets injured during training or so...
Okay, to make it more fun, you can name two pairs of fighters:
Pair 1: Must be alive and non-fictional, i.e. actual real fighters of now. One Fighter, one Stand-in. Pair 2: Must only be non-ficitional. No "Son-Goku" or "Dr.Manhattan" bs please
It's tough. What you would want to do is take a bunch of top athletes including the UFC heavyweights and give them the best performance enhancing drugs combination known to man. It would probably end up being Alistair Overeem who would have the best chance of winning but then again, if someone like Lebron James has any natural fighting skills, he has the athletic qualities necessary, he could get to about 260-70 of lean muscle, and hurt some aliens.
Basically no UFC fighters or boxers under heavyweight would be able to cut it, they would be destroyed by a 300lb+ alien like Goro. Although I do think a fighter like anderson silva or floyd mayweather might be good enough and accurate enough to strike any weakpoints and fast enough to escape.
But to be honest, to design a fighting creature, humans are in the bottom 1 percentile for earth. An angry 140 lb chimp could destroy any human on the planet and rip them limb from limb.
I'd send myself and just bank on the fact that all aliens will melt when I pee on them. A stand in wouldn't be necessary because pee training isn't very dangerous.
On April 30 2012 22:19 sc4k wrote: It's tough. What you would want to do is take a bunch of top athletes including the UFC heavyweights and give them the best performance enhancing drugs combination known to man. It would probably end up being Alistair Overeem who would have the best chance of winning but then again, if someone like Lebron James has any natural fighting skills, he has the athletic qualities necessary, he could get to about 260-70 of lean muscle, and hurt some aliens.
Basically no UFC fighters or boxers under heavyweight would be able to cut it, they would be destroyed by a 300lb+ alien like Goro. Although I do think a fighter like anderson silva or floyd mayweather might be good enough and accurate enough to strike any weakpoints and fast enough to escape.
But to be honest, to design a fighting creature, humans are in the bottom 1 percentile for earth. An angry 140 lb chimp could destroy any human on the planet and rip them limb from limb.
Hey, that's actually a good idea, let's just send in a Gorilla or Orangutan and claim it's a person. The aliens will never know the difference. :p
Also, how would we train these people? This is a deathmatch, right? So that implies that fighting styles would have to be adapted to be able to make best use of there actually being no rules. I don't know much about fighting styles though, so maybe someone else should make suggestions.
But to be honest, to design a fighting creature, humans are in the bottom 1 percentile for earth. An angry 140 lb chimp could destroy any human on the planet and rip them limb from limb.
You sure about this? I mean, your average office worker who does no exercise sure, but any trained extremely strong anf fit human? More intelligent and more experienced and trained in fighting I can't see why the chimp would be stronger, or at least strong enough to beat a trained fighter in combat.
But to be honest, to design a fighting creature, humans are in the bottom 1 percentile for earth. An angry 140 lb chimp could destroy any human on the planet and rip them limb from limb.
You sure about this? I mean, your average office worker who does no exercise sure, but any trained extremely strong anf fit human? More intelligent and more experienced and trained in fighting I can't see why the chimp would be stronger, or at least strong enough to beat a trained fighter in combat.
I think he is talking muscle capacity and fighting skills assuming that the chimp is of equal intelligence.
But to be honest, to design a fighting creature, humans are in the bottom 1 percentile for earth. An angry 140 lb chimp could destroy any human on the planet and rip them limb from limb.
You sure about this? I mean, your average office worker who does no exercise sure, but any trained extremely strong anf fit human? More intelligent and more experienced and trained in fighting I can't see why the chimp would be stronger, or at least strong enough to beat a trained fighter in combat.
We aren't a natural built predator. We have to use tools to hunt, unlike animals such as a lion. We didn't evolve to be the fastest and strongest animals alive, we evolved to be the most adaptable. I'd send a gorilla to go fight, the average gorilla has 6-10 times more upper body strength than a human and I'd imagine is much more resilient as well.
is it fair that its un-armred combat i mean humans main weapon are tools like making stuff, imagine a lion-alien in a gun fight 0_o damn that would be awesome, but yeah probaby bruce lee if it was alive the man practically does nothing but train (well obvsiouly not anymore) this reminds me of AvP where we basically suck....
On April 30 2012 23:53 Moliere wrote: An intergalactic fight for the future of humanity? Oh, wait... humans potentially can't cut it?
Send the gorillas.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes II.
Yeah, I think our best bet is to pretend to be telepathically controlled by our gorilla-masters who we serve as mindless slaves. They are our intellectual superiors, and have, for the past 5 millenia utilized their vast telepathic powers to compel us to build slave-quarter cities and civilizations for their glory, while we serve as their mouthpieces. We would present to our god-gorillas' challenger, the strongest god-gorilla there is, while we quiver in awe and terror and subservience.
It wouldn't matter. We'd all probably be enslaved and be used for sex and meals after that tournament. And not the good kind of sex. They'd probably do the thing from species where their young eat us.
I'd send a shaolin monk though. Just to get us past the first round against the aliens of fluffy gumdrop planet.
By the way, if we agree to send an animal, i would suggest sending an angry grizzly bear or polar bear, because they are even stronger than your average silverback gorilla.
On May 01 2012 02:37 reapsen wrote: What are Roid Monsters??!
By the way, if we agree to send an animal, i would suggest sending an angry grizzly bear or polar bear, because they are even stronger than your average silverback gorilla.
440lb limit, so that eliminates bears, and most gorillas that you would want to pick(the giant alpha males). Male lions, and all of the larger tiger species are out too. We need new ideas!
On May 01 2012 03:15 Kuja wrote: Also, if we send out gorrilas it would be their species that's enslaved, not ours! sense you said they are enslaved on a special level.
On May 01 2012 20:56 reapsen wrote: do you really want to throw in an animal to fight for humanities freedom instead of a trained human fighter like Overeem?
Sure, just imagine... he tries to block a strike only to find out the opponent has claws that can slice your arm off... he tries to wrestle only to find out the opponent has the teeth suitable for ripping throats out...
I don't think I could think of a competent people who are alive and could enter such a tournament and be successful so I'm just gonna choose Grigory Rasputin and Pier Gerlofs Donia for the 2nd pair.
There is a magical device that keeps the gravity to the value that all contenders are used to from their respective homeworlds. So thats out of the equasion.
I find it very interessting that some of the folks here, want to send an animal. I guess an angry gorilla that is exactly on the weight limit is strong, but hmm.. the Blog even says: human contender
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