Random Thought Thread

[yoko]

My buddy had a heavily modified mosin that was awesome to shoot

 

[jlauffer]

Y'all realize Chuck Norris was a 6-year undefeated karate champion, right?

Karate is enormously less constrained than boxing

All these Chuck Norris jokes are no joke. That man would beat everyone there to death including Bruce Lee.

Bruce Lee was a "martial artist". But at the end of the day, he was 135 lb and 5'7 and I think in a real scrape Chuck Norris tears him to pieces.

Mike Tyson is terrifying but, unless we're talking a boxing match, Chuck Norris is going to kick his ass because I don't think even prime Mike Tyson knows what to do with a real and proper spinning back kick.

Of course, my money is on the Russian guy ^

Because, if there are no constraints I'm betting on the guy with the SVD Dragunov...

Mostly agree about Norris, but keep in mind he was point-fighting, which is not full contact. But without that constraint, I think he gets past the "full contact" inexperience pretty quick and unleashes hell.

 

[Blues]

Tyson and it isn’t close. Only two of them fought professionally at the top of their respective style and Ali couldn’t stop prime Tyson.

Buster Douglas did.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Breaks his hand, think we have a chance at the Outlaw shoot and fearless leader is shooting a G3. Hopes dashed.

I will be shooting with my left hand this year.

I still intend to take your money though

Again

While a full powered .308 G3 battle rifle definitely conforms to the spirit of the game... alas no rifles...

Did I win with an iron sight .45 Magnum Automag last year?

Hitting a beer cap dead center at 26 yards, off hand.

And then Mark sent a round through the same hole. And then Richard hit it too. All on the first round.

That's crazy.

How on earth are we ever going to top that...



...hummm454casullmmmm...

 

[Richard338]

Buster Douglas did.

Yep, he broke the spell. We watched it live and recorded it. Stunning. Watched it several more times in the next few weeks to fully understand it.

Still, Chuck might not want this.

 

[MarbReds]

Prime Ali was no joke, but I'll agree and give the edge to Tyson (before the spell was broken).

He was terrifying. By that time he had a lot of vices though.

Buster Douglas did.

Arguably ended Tyson’s “prime”

Douglas idolized Ali too.

 

[vkp78]

 

[bluemax_1]

Y'all realize Chuck Norris was a 6-year undefeated karate champion, right?

Karate is enormously less constrained than boxing

All these Chuck Norris jokes are no joke. That man would beat everyone there to death including Bruce Lee.

Bruce Lee was a "martial artist". But at the end of the day, he was 135 lb and 5'7 and I think in a real scrape Chuck Norris tears him to pieces.

Mike Tyson is terrifying but, unless we're talking a boxing match, Chuck Norris is going to kick his ass because I don't think even prime Mike Tyson knows what to do with a real and proper spinning back kick.

Of course, my money is on the Russian guy ^

Because, if there are no constraints I'm betting on the guy with the SVD Dragunov...

I can never tell who’s joking wrt to Chuck Norris, but no, unless we’re talking about ‘unscathed’ because they ran away, then Chuck ranks nowhere.

His titles are all for light contact point sparring sport karate. Unlike fellow competitors of the era (eg. Joe Lewis, Bill ‘Superfoot’ Wallace etc.) who made the switch from light contact to full contact when that began taking off, Chuck retired because he didn’t want to get hit in the face.

You can still find some footage of his competitor fights. Compared to the UFC or Muay Thai, it’s pretty laughable. I’d take odds on someone like Rodtang over Chuck in his prime, despite a 40+lb advantage.

Here’s Chuck pausing the fight due to incidental contact to his face (the competitions he did didn’t allow punches to the face and all contact had to be restrained).

And some Rodtang highlights

Heck, even JCVD fought full contact under Jean Claude Van Varenberg.

Of that list, tough choice between Ali and Tyson. Tyson was an animal in his prime, but Ali was the smarter fighter. A lot of folks say that Foreman could match Tyson’s power and Ali was able to beat him by fighting smart.

 

[bluemax_1]

Real question is - who would be walking out with both ears intact.

(I see @Hammer67 beat me to the ear jokes)

Jean Claude Van Gogh?

 

[Blues]

I never missed a boxing match on TV or closed circuit back in the day. (Not so much anymore...unless it's a fighter I'm interested in.)

 

[Hammer67]

Jean Claude Van Gogh?

 

[MarbReds]

I had this really handsome ruby throated male visit my feeder today. My pics are nothing compared to Matthew’s though. Also had a little spotted fawn playing in the back yard. It really does feel like summer is fading away today.

 

[SharpBits]

It really does feel like summer is fading away today.

I wish it was here. Seems like there was no Spring, just Summer, followed by Summer. I expect Autumn to also be Summer.

 

[MarbReds]

I wish it was here. Seems like there was no Spring, just Summer, followed by Summer. I expect Autumn to also be Summer.

Don’t get me wrong it’s still mid 90s and humid as heck. It’s just an autumn vibe if that makes sense.

Probably has more to do with football on TV than anything else.