I couldn't beat a pro, but I could definitely beat a Seth. I've watched all of Icy Mike's videos, I'm practically a lethal weapon now.

As a total beginner it blows my mind how these people have no clue how to throw a single punch but think they can somehow fight.

1000% soldier was put up to it by his buddies who wanted him to shut up

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a hell of a thing.

"For a punching bag he's doing a good job"
lmao

It’s funny how no one says “Yeah I could beat Rafael Nadal at tennis” or “Michael Jordan aint shit, I played in highschool”, but for some reason some men think that they could beat a professional MMA fighter at their chosen sport.

Delusion is a powerful thing. I remember when I had been training for years I would still have friends, who were out of shape and unathletic, say they could beat me. It's crazy how fighting is the thing people believe they can do with no experience at all. You try to explain to them that you could take them down and choke them out and there's nothing they could do about it, but they just refuse to believe it.

Overeem was challenged to grapple and he starts punching. I honestly respect the reporter

The reporter in the clip was very humble about it. He got beat up for the sake of journalism. Reem is a professional at fighting, the reporter is a professional in quality footage. Both artists in their craft.

Yeah
My sons wrestle in College and I remember a Blue Belt 34 year old man wanting to go against my 15 year old son.  It was strange watching a small kid pick a grown man up and hold him to the ground.
Once his friend challenge him with a 90 lb weight difference and it did not last 10 seconds.
Our egos make us think we have a chance and to admit some kid could kill you and you can not stop them we can not phantom.
Wrestlers, boxers, MMA fighters do this for a living.  
I mean we wrestled 12 months a year and trained 4 to 6 days a week including tournaments in different states and around the state we lived in.
It is like me challenging a MIT math professor on a math test.  Like seriously, it is that big of a difference.

I boxed for about 12 years, and had a good number of professional fights.  Even sparred with Andre Ward (who spent 15 minutes touching me up haha).   I would say the biggest difference between technical understanding of fights and actually fighting is the composure.   The ability to see what's happening and process it and then stop your brain from "fighting back" and focus on how to hit without being hit.  Fighting the flinch is also huge.  Aggression and swinging hard gives a lot of street fighter types good records just because there is an "attackers advantage" in any untrained fight. It's harder to react to a punch than it is to throw a punch.

1:57 bro really did the Luigi dash attack

I began martial arts in the 1990s at the age of 19 ... One of the first guys I took lessons from had won a 1987 World Games Gold Medal in TKD (back when is was an exploratory sport for the Olympics) ... The thing I remember most vividly was that somehow he would be behind me kicking me (gently) to the head. What the average joe fails to recognize is elite level fighters know how to read you like a book, can move through your blind spots, and hit you at will. The average joe appears to be moving underwater to the professional because the average joe cannot avoid telegraphing what they do. Fast forward to now as I approach my fifth decade ... I haven't done martial arts for over decade. My college age and teenage kids, nephews, nieces, and a bunch of their friends including my future son-in-law broke out my gear and started "sparring" on the front lawn. They convinced me to join them and even after all this time, they appeared to be moving through water and I had to move really slow and under control to avoid hurting them (and allow them to get the occasional point). But even in my prime, the only way I would ever have gone up against an elite fighter would have simply been for a learning experience in a controlled, sparring, environment knowing full-well they would have smoked me in a real-life type environment.

0:10 Elon Musk might be the most self-deluded man alive lol

Man, I grew up with a bunch of "tough guys". We fought a lot. Tough neighbourhood etc. I'm 6", 230 and pretty solid. Very strong and mentally resilient. I like to strike. There is no way in hell I would ever consider challenging a real fighter. I am just grateful as fuck I never got my ass handed to me by someone with any real experience. Don't fight if you don't have to. Walk away. You are not as tough as you think. Valentina would cut me down like a dandelion.

Old people going too hard hits too much home.
At judo an older gentleman like 20 kilos more than me was the only person who didn't respect my "my rib was injured until recently" taps. Ended up popping my rib after extending a submission with 20 secs because he didn't feel like it was a good time for me to tap there.

I was sparring at our Muay Thai gym once and this guy that was in his 50s who was newer was lighting newer people up so I said I got next and let's just say he had a long 3 minute round and no longer hit people hard after that

i will say with the guy that fought overeem, it seemed like the reporter gained a touch of respect for the move he pulled

A pro at any sport will humble you. You do it for fun, they do it for a living.

As a regular master Ken watcher/student, I’m proud to say I confidently believe I can handle myself in any street situation