Elite heavyweight MMA fighter vs. fastest 3 guys on your school's XC team

You've got to be joking? You seriously think 3 high school xcountry boys could take somebody like Francis Ngannou?

I doubt if three 135lb UFC fighters could take a top 5 heavyweight.

even a middle of the road college wrestler with a tiny amount of boxing skill should be able to beat at least 1/2 your entire cross country practice squad and have no trouble handling just the top 5 or 6 guys at once at least 75 percent of the time.

For this to even be in question it would have to be like 7 HS xc runners and one has a knife.

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Well if they had a competent coach they could come up with a strategy to win. They would all have to ambush at once and lock him up somehow then one goes in for a few licks.

who wins? wrote:

So here's the scenario: The fastest three guys on your XC team are locked in a 20'×20' cage with a world-class MMA fighter. Everyone is unarmed, and the fighting goes on until either the MMA guy is killed or until all three XC guys are killed. The XC guys aren't given any combat training prior to the fight.

Who do you think would survive? I think that the MMA fighter could take down two athletic guys at once, but I don't know about 3...

It would be the three dumbest guys on the XC team that would allow a psycho MMA fighter to lure them into a 20' X 20' cage. The fast guys would run sub-5:00 pace in the other direction.

Anderson Silva was quick enough with the feet, and agile enough where he could survive taking on an unarmed gang.

You didn't specify weight class of the MMA fighter so MAYBE they would have a chance against the small women's division.

Silva competed up to Lt. Heavyweight which is close enough.

Watch some Silva footage.

A dude gang wouldn't win.

you've got to be joking. Even if all 3 XC runners are armed with knives they'd get murdered.

Fastest 3 sprinters on a D1 college team? They have decent upper and lower body strength, so maybe:

https://theathleticbuild.com/15-most-jacked-track-and-field-sprinters-of-all-time/

But fastest 3 XC guys? No way!

steve the addict. wrote:

Well if they had a competent coach they could come up with a strategy to win. They would all have to ambush at once and lock him up somehow then one goes in for a few licks.

They wouldn't have the strength to do that, even if they somehow had the technique.

How many 'licks' did Stipe Miosic and Francis Ngannou deliver to each other during their title fight? Dozens and at no time were either rendered incapable of performing their elite techniques (obviously Ngannou gassed and was well below Stipe's grappling level).

I would say either would win against three xcountry boys with their hands tied behind their backs. They could probably be strapped to a chair and give the boys five minutes to do their worse, and at the end of the five minutes when unstrapped, the boys are going to be beaten into an early death within 20 seconds.

I've seen bouncers etc. in real life and videos online winning against multiple men in street fights.

Who do you think would win in a 1200m race between Donovan Brazier and three random bar fighters on the Monaco track? The bar fighters run as a 3 x 400 relay against Brazier over 1200m. Do you think it would be close? I think if the bar fighters are in decent shape, say under 100kg each, then they might take it.

why so much pessimism? they can all 3 attack gis eyes at once. that's 6 claws to his eyes! and while he's busy covering kick his groin/knees/solar

Coevett wrote:

I would say either would win against three xcountry boys with their hands tied behind their backs. They could probably be strapped to a chair and give the boys five minutes to do their worse, and at the end of the five minutes when unstrapped, the boys are going to be beaten into an early death within 20 seconds.

I've seen bouncers etc. in real life and videos online winning against multiple men in street fights.

Who do you think would win in a 1200m race between Donovan Brazier and three random bar fighters on the Monaco track? The bar fighters run as a 3 x 400 relay against Brazier over 1200m.

One strangles him, the other gouges his eyes out, the third one repeatedly kicks him in the nuts. Nobody is recovering from that, and it wouldn't even take 5 minutes.

Brazier wins against the 3x400; there's no way that the bar fighters would average a sub 59 second lap. One could do it, two might if you're lucky. But the slowest out of the three would run something like a 67 or a 68.

If all three charged him at once, one guy would be knocked out and it would be 2 on 1. At that point, the total body weight would be equal. He could easily throw an elbow to take out a 2nd guy. The slaughter would take about 20 seconds.

The real question is whether, outside of the cage, he is fast enough to catch one of them in the first 100 meters or so.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

who wins? wrote:

One strangles him, the other gouges his eyes out, the third one repeatedly kicks him in the nuts. Nobody is recovering from that, and it wouldn't even take 5 minutes.

Brazier wins against the 3x400; there's no way that the bar fighters would average a sub 59 second lap. One could do it, two might if you're lucky. But the slowest out of the three would run something like a 67 or a 68.

If all three charged him at once, one guy would be knocked out and it would be 2 on 1. At that point, the total body weight would be equal. He could easily throw an elbow to take out a 2nd guy. The slaughter would take about 20 seconds.

The real question is whether, outside of the cage, he is fast enough to catch one of them in the first 100 meters or so.

I was talking about Coevett's scenario where the fighter was strapped to a chair or had his hands tied behind his back.

We had a guy on my college XC team (not one of the 3 fastest) who was built like a tank (probably 5'11/190), and was a black belt in karate (placed second in state black belt division). I saw him subdue rowdy guys at frat parties in the past, I have no doubt that he could contain even an elite fighter long enough to allow two others of us to finish the job (I'm a little bigger now but I've bicep curled 125 and benched 235).

An even match might be those three guys against that MMA fighter as a 15yr old, without his adult training.

who wins? wrote:

So here's the scenario: The fastest three guys on your XC team are locked in a 20'×20' cage with a world-class MMA fighter. Everyone is unarmed, and the fighting goes on until either the MMA guy is killed or until all three XC guys are killed. The XC guys aren't given any combat training prior to the fight.

The only way the XC guys survive is if the fighter is lying down and asleep at the start of the match. The guy throwing the sucker punch has an enormous advantage in a street fight.