NBA / Aug 27, 2009 / 6:31 pm

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How long would you last in the ring separately against (1) Manny Pacquiao, (2) Kurt Angle, (3) prime Bruce Lee, and (4) Anderson Silva?

As often as you guys call Dime writers crazy on a daily basis, you don’t even hear most of the insanity that goes on in the office. Every couple of days it seems, somebody says something just flagrant: From “I could beat J.J. Barea one-on-one!” to “I swear Melyssa Ford was giving me ‘The Look’ at a hot dog stand!”

Yesterday, somebody claimed he could last 10 seconds in the ring with Manny Pacquiao. Right now. Names will be withheld to protect the foolish, but we’re talking about a getting-on-30 former D-3 college point guard who is basically the Baron Davis of Dime’s main rec league, in that his conditioning keeps him from dominating. Given two months of training with a world-class trainer, our colleague said, he could go a whole round with Pac-Man.

Lined up across from the best boxer in the world (Pac-Man), how long could you stay in a fight? What about an Olympic gold medalist wrestler (Angle), a world champion MMA fighter (Silva), or the greatest pound-for-pound combat machine (Lee) the world has ever seen?

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  • BRUCE

    Give me the right amount of money, I would fight a lion!

  • Maynard

    Austin, your esteemed colleague sounds kind of like a guy I knew in college who told me he thought one of us could hang with Prince Naseem Hamed, who was at the time a champion at 126. Never mind that the guy could punch through a brick wall.

    Hearing this anecdote from your office makes me understand why for the most part, your articles are by far the most worthwhile thing on this site.

    Haha… Angle would OUTPOINT the guy above me. If by outpoint, you mean rip your leg off at the knee with a toehold. And I agree, 30 seconds with Pacquiao sounds right, except 25 of them would be spent trying to revive you.

  • BiG ShoT BoB

    Yeah it’s easy for all these cats to talk crap behind computers and maybe they beleive some of this bull but you get in the ring with any of these guys and I guarantee you start crying after the first 2 minutes and begging for it to be over. Especially with the boxer and the MMA guy. Have uou ever tried to punch anything for 10 minutes straight? It’s tiring as hell. Or have you every been put in a leg lock by an MMA fighter or had your arm snapped from the elbo down? LOL it’s almost comical to even think about but I would pay top dollar to see an average joe just jump in their full contact.

  • rangerjohn

    anybody catch bully beatdown?

  • BiG ShoT BoB

    Oh and don’t even talk about Bruce Lee that cat can whoop anybody on that list. The Dragon would punch you six times before you started to raise your fist.

  • Ian

    ranger didnt segal have mafia ties or someshit like that he would prob just shoot u in the ring.

    job
    size always matters she lied man.

  • http://twitter.com/PoppiGEE POPPI GEE

    rangerjohn as usual you are clearly the expert on this area (fighting).

    Yea I take nothing away from Kurt in real wrestling and me saying I can last a minute is 30 seconds of running around and avoiding lol.

  • Simon

    With all due respect Papa Doc, do you honestly think you could last 30 seconds in an ankle lock? I’m not even disputing that you might be able to run around for 30 seconds, but that 31st second is going to hurt like a muthafucker!

    Steven Seagal can kill people with credit cards. Tell that guy Seagal was just working with his movements…

  • rangerjohn

    poppi

    i do pride myself on the whole fighting stuff lol i been training for a long time. sambo, jkd, BJJ(my fav), muay thai (best striking art hands down), some boxing, wrestling.

    not to sure about segals mafia ties but i would not put it past him lol. but you know your art sucks when they have to VISIBLY speed you up and slow your opponents down in your movies to make you look better lmao (what was his movie on the train, dont fuck with the cook?)

    here you go these guys are my fav
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdrzBL2dHMI

    if you look close, stephan bonnar is on toward the end

  • Simon

    Dear rangerjohn,

    Please stop talkin’ smack about my boy! I don’t care how many different styles you are trained in, I will hurt you. No matter what, heart and determination always win and that is something no amount to training can give you…

  • rangerjohn

    lmao @ simon

  • http://www.nukedasouth.net Chicagorilla

    I personally can’t see how any of you can talk about another grown man whipping your ass seriously. Where I’m from that’s just not reasonable. And to be honest, if Pac-man rushed any of you for 10seconds/1 round with non-stop punches, none of you make it to 10 seconds. The idiot wrestler and MMA fighters don’t know how to execute real techniques, they just fall to their back and fight from the ground…. extremely gay and. Bruce Lee… seriously shouldn’t even be in the discussion, he would decimate anyone/anything living or dead.

  • doc

    I would get Kurt from afar unless he got me in a ankle lock then im tapping out.Silva I dont know about but I assume he one of those grab and muscle you dudes in the ufc so I could keep my distance and pop away at his head.Manny is a little fuck that I would pick up and slam the shit out of because he boxes better than me.And as far as I know Bruce was a movie star and I never seen him fight for real so id whip that ass.If he so untouchable Bruce Leeroy must be the GOD.That cat catches bullets and glow.Bottomline,fuck lasting 10 seconds I’ll knock them all the fuck out…or die trying.

  • Claw

    Bruce was a movie star? Seriously?
    Step up your f*ing game and have some type of knowledge. Dude was a boxing champion as a teenager and studied under some of the most world renown masters of karate and established his own form of Karate: Jeet Kune Do.

    You sound like the same type of guy that challenged Bruce when he was shooting Enter the Dragon, called him a movie star and that he was a bitch. Bruce had him come down and fight, guy was alot bigger than him and Bruce moved around and guy couldn’t touch him. Then Bruce just knocked him the f*k out.

    Now Bruce Lee vs Jet Li, that would be some sh*t to watch.

  • http://twitter.com/PoppiGEE POPPI GEE

    Simon surely you have seen the reversal of the ankle lock lol.

    Anyone should really be able to last 10 with any of these dudes unless you one of those idiots that rush in. 10 is nothing. Pretty much if you get KO’ed in 10 …well you should have gotten KO’ed lol.

    Laughing at some of these cats talkin reckless who’d probably get done by Cyborg…..the lady not the man.

    Ain’t a man living that can’t get caught slippin though, I don’t care who you are.

  • doc

    @Claw-See somebody like you,I’d just walk up on you real fast like Say What and E Honda the shit out of your face while telling you how studying Bruce Lees lifestory wont get you nowhere in life except in this spot for this asswhipping for coming on here like you his son.Fuck Bruce Lee and he wont do shit to me in 10 seconds.And Bruce Leeroy would’ve tore fire through his ass,Shonuff too.Bitch.

  • the cynic

    @rangerjohn

    like you said it all depends on the rules of the fight. I think i could keep Angle in my guard for at least a little while; hell I could probably pull guard against Pacman, sweep him, mount, take his back, and choke him out. Or get knocked out trying

  • rangerjohn

    ok poppi here you go, not rushing in just straight up KTFO!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0np_VzHdH9c

    the key to a boxer, leg kicks. a punch is generated in the toes and up the legs through the hips torso and so on but the power really starts in the legs. leg kicks also keep him far enough away he cant punch you and you dont have to worry about being taken down because a boxer damn sure dont want on the ground.

    cynic, i would say i bet you could pull guard on pacman because he would not know whats up. kurt on the other hand if you pulled guard i think would ground and pound your face and not even try to get out much like tito. drive to the cage, wall, fence, what ever and elboys and punchs

  • http://twitter.com/PoppiGEE POPPI GEE

    ranger i have seen that and what is ill, is how dude is falling in slow-mo. Like I said, any dude can get caught slippin.

    That is crazy everytime I see it lol.

  • rangerjohn

    tim sylvia is a 6’9″ joke! he is the clumbsyest, most aukward fighter ever.

    it still amazes me how he won so many fights. the only thing he has is reach, he has some gorilla arms

  • Curt G

    All of ya’ll are some damn fools! I have been rolling while I red these posts… ALL OF THEM!! This is BY FAR some of the funniest sh*t I have ever read! My wife thought I was on some comedy site and could only roll her eyes when she saw I was on Dime! Dime, ya’ll need to ask some more question like this so I can read some of the hysterical bullsh*t that some people post on here!

  • Claw

    His son could kick your ass in 10 seconds also – and he’s dead. Pull a Crow on your a**.

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