Thread: Shaolin monks...the tough ones.

Just wanted everyones thoughts on what the toughest human beings on earth are in regards to just being able to beat someones arse all over the place.

Shaolin monks..
Are these the toughest people on earth?
You always here the stories and watch the videos of how superhuman these guys are but they never compete in such events as in mma or anything as its not in their nature to participate in these type of events.

Is there any footage of any real life shaolin monks in competitive action or is there any chance that these monks could possibly be overated?!

I know we all have our favourite boxers and favourite mma fighters but in a real life pound for pound situation ignoring weight what type of contact professional is the ultimate warrior.

(The question is a bit immature, but just give me an idea on who you think is toughest type of human being on earth and why and perhaps some reasoning on the monks that bend metal with ease and take kicks to the groin etc)

Cheers.

Be good to see how one went, I think they are well above the average joe in fight abilities but I recon it ends there. Western take over of martial arts has left all traditional ones flat in the Octagon. But out of most arts you would think those boys would have the variable ground and bridging the gap from kick to grapple skills to build on better than some others.

Mike Tyson

Originally Posted by Boxer4life

Mike Tyson

Would mike take a shaolin monk at the same weight?

they seem to beat themselves a whole lot, the answer is obvious.


C.N

Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy

they seem to beat themselves a whole lot, the answer is obvious.


C.N

Haha be great to see a match up between a monk and a self flagellating priest, separate rings, see who can beat themselves to death first.

Originally Posted by imp

Originally Posted by Boxer4life

Mike Tyson

Would mike take a shaolin monk at the same weight?

In gloves with rules Mike all day long.

No rules no gloves would probably mean to the death. We all know who would have to have whos eyes out and toes or knees broken just to be able to survive a round, Id go with the monk because he'd realize the gravity of the situation fast and fingers outreach fists.

I don't think you can legitimately answer this one with a single name (because individual humans are very different and there are too many unpredictable variables.)

Taking the debate in a slightly different direction, I've been thinking about what 'type' of person was likely the biggest badass in history.

Throughout human history, only two 'types' of people have been purely and wholly dedicated to fighting and killing from birth. They did nothing else in their lives, thought of nothing else, and spent literally all their lives getting better at it. They were highly educated, trained harder and longer than anyone else in history, had the best weapons and technology available and believed that they were the best of the best. In fact, their social class existed only to make war.

Ladies and gents, I give you:

- the feudal Japanese Samurai, and
- the 12th Century Egyptian Mamluk slave soldiers

Look them up. Would be interested in people's views ........

Originally Posted by imp

Originally Posted by Boxer4life

Mike Tyson

Would mike take a shaolin monk at the same weight?

Honestly i think so, i think they lack the power to stop mike, while hes trying to kick him mikes punching, its very hard to hurt a guy like mike.

X's post is great, as far as the Shaolin Monks it still would highly depend on the individual as he said of course. I think it's likely that marial artists have declined on the whole since modern warfare, as they used to in fact be the most practical killing machines known to man in many cases.