In response to a long and interesting thread currently running. In a fight would you rather be the bigger guy or the smaller guy! Its not about what you normally are, or whether this small guy is better than that big guy. Which would you rather be in a fight in order to give you the best chance of winning. Or if you were betting on a fight in which you knew nothing about the fighters but one was visibly bigger than the other who would you back. And there both fit and healthy and not blind, or stupid or possesing magical powers etc etc
Depends on who the 'guys' are. If the smaller guy was Wanderlei Silva and the bigger guy was John Candy I'd rather be the small guy.
Taliar: You may want to rephrase the question as : "Would you rather be bigger or smaller than someone attacking you" seeing as people are goign to try and twist this as much as possible. <Cough>Medi<Cough>
And also the person you're fighting is unknown! Or else people will constantly use a lightweight UFC fighter or a 600lb bed ridden burger addict to argue their point
Let's not forget Chi masters and ninja's as well. This is looking pretty grim for us, we only have a bed ridden 600lb burger addict to take on the entire UFC light weight division, a load chi masters, an entire ninja clan and Royce Gracie! Looks like we might be about to get:
I break it down into the boxer mentality. Big guy can generally take and give out alot more punishment than a smaller guy. Unless the smaller guy is some lightning-quick kung fu black belt, chances are he'll get killed.
my god, its SPAWNING! I would be the little guy because little people are faster than big people (who are always obese) and big muscles just mean you are slower. and using my physics knowledge I learnt at the age of 14 I know that speed is how you make damage so the faster you are the more damage you do. Also, my master has a goddamn HUGE twirly moustache and he says im right.
I would prefer to be the bigger person. When i say bigger i dont mean massive, just a bit bigger that the other guy, enought to give me some advantage.
well, I'm 6' 3" and am usually the bigger one in the fight, so I'm going with the big guy. Simply because I don't really know what it's like to be the small guy
If anybody says they'd rather be the smaller person... they're either a fool or have never been in a fight before.
I'm 5'10" in Louisiana I'm the bigger guy, and I prefer it like that. I've been the smaller guy on too many occasions. Technique and strategy will help over come size, strength and speed differences, so does being mean and nasty.
Psychologically speaking i would rather be a small guy. Chances are they have "short guy-syndrome" and have more of a fire lit under their ass in fights. Bigger guys have a tendency to be over confident and might be too arrogant for his own good. Ive seen some big dudes get taken down very easily. But as far as the general public goes, i suppose being a bigger untrained guy is better than being a smaller untrained guy.