Is Jones the only A level athlete in MMA?

[ANIM4L]

What he has going for him is Reach, PEDs, and a mean streak.

 

[elanimalsantana]

Or is he sub A level, or even B level. We all know he dominates and is levels above everyone else. His brother arthur was a good defensive tackle in his prime. And his other bro chandler is a beast A level freak athlete pass rusher.

Jones obviously was too skinny for football and is the least athletic brother yet he dominates MMA and is a specimen. If sub a level jones who might even be B level or even C level is tearing through the sport it shows there are no a level athletes in MMA.

Mma basically has poverty D level athletes with jones being the exception.

EDIT:jones might be C level

You're not very bright, are you? There have been/are quite a few Olympians in MMA not to mention World Champion level judokas, etc. To say that they are "D" level athletes is just plain IGNORANT.

 

[Flokk]

Jones is good on roids, ducking HW though. His brothers are/were the better athletes. They fucked with roids or coke or some shit too IIRC.

Jones isn't a bballer so of course he doesn't dunk on the first try. If he played bball he would dunk but not frequently.

Hard to point to guys with Olympic pedigrees as A level because in MMA they are mostly old. But you can see the difference for sure.

 

[AnotherOldGuy]

How many footballers can win a marathon? How many basketball players can do a backflip? How many 1500m world champions can dunk one handed?

What the Fuck is an A level athlete?

The only useful definition I've seen is that an A-level athlete is one of the top guys in a major sport. Take say the top ten guys in any professional sport and the most popular Olympic sports - those are all A-level athletes.

 

[NotoriousMillions]

Or is he sub A level, or even B level. We all know he dominates and is levels above everyone else. His brother arthur was a good defensive tackle in his prime. And his other bro chandler is a beast A level freak athlete pass rusher.

Jones obviously was too skinny for football and is the least athletic brother yet he dominates MMA and is a specimen. If sub a level jones who might even be B level or even C level is tearing through the sport it shows there are no a level athletes in MMA.

Mma basically has poverty D level athletes with jones being the exception.

EDIT:jones might be C level

DC ran a sub 4.5 as a linebacker without expert equipment and training. MMA has A-level athletes, the problem is they don't have enough of them.

 

[AnotherOldGuy]

I don’t know how to define athleticism.

He’s built perfectly for fighting. He literally has 8-12 inch reach advantages over people in his weight class and uses it very well.

He fight just be a perfect storm of physically and mental attributes for fighting despite not having classical athletic traits.

The dictionary definition of athleticism is the ability to do well in a sport. That is, anyone who does well in a sport is athletic. Seems like a very sensible definition, its like saying is scientific if they are successful in some science, or musical if they can play a musical instrument well.

 

[TheLastEmperorReurns]

DC was an olympian and sub a level jones dismantled him off a layoff.

DC is also 40 and nowhere near his physical peak.

That's the insane thing about this DC/Jones rivalry- Jones has been beating a guy who's a decade removed from his prime who went into MMA after his body was too old and broken for Olympic-level wrestling.

 

[TheLastEmperorReurns]

Answers like this always baffles me... How does being an olympian means you are a great athlete???? Is DC a great athlete?

No he isn't, he's an absolutely terrible "athlete"

To qualify for the Olympics, especially in a sport as rich in athlete quantity as wrestling, one needs to be in the top 1% of their country.

To place 4th in Olympic wrestling, where the top 1% of the world's thousands of career wrestlers compete, signifies that one is the pinnacle of his or her athletic endeavor.

To be in the pinnacle of his or her athletic endeavor is to be very athletic.

I suggest that you study Aristotlean rationalism to learn how to think logically.

 

[Mob69]

Romero is the best athlete in MMA, followed by GSP.

 

[GSP_37]

GSP can do gymnastics and go toe to toe with Capt America.

 

[chuckleknuckle]

The only useful definition I've seen is that an A-level athlete is one of the top guys in a major sport. Take say the top ten guys in any professional sport and the most popular Olympic sports - those are all A-level athletes.

Fishing is the most popular sport in the UK in terms of participation.

The top ten guys in fishing have a combined age of 750, and 4 organ failures between them.