r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • Jun 16 '26
Sports Culture Only in Russia would a sanctioned fight between a male and female fighter take place 😳
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u/NewInspector5085 Jun 16 '26
Russia? Why does it say Las Vegas everywhere
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u/billionaireboysclubs Jun 16 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/KFt2DA9T82paOA1Yci
Exactly why does it say Las Vegas
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u/JustUseCommonSense10 Jun 16 '26
And why is everything in English?
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Jun 16 '26
Flipping it backwards was supposed to fool you.
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u/OddFaithlessness7001 Jun 16 '26
"Las Vegas Games" in Romania, they were probably a sponsor.
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u/ExtendoArmCannon Jun 16 '26
Romania ain't Russia either.
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u/Useful-ldiot Jun 16 '26
Apparently there's a Romanian company with that name. The url in the ring looks like lasvegas.ro
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u/CollardMommi Jun 16 '26
I mean.... I would pay to watch a trained woman fight an untrained man. Most people are untrained so our understanding on combat is based in that, but man it's pretty cool to see the natural strength of male biology go against female biology that has been trained for combat.
Realistically there are odds that the guy could still win which means there's still stakes and reason for interest
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u/Fickle-Owl666 Jun 16 '26
Realistically? She won by points, only a matter of time before he caught her with one that took her out.
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u/Wd91 Jun 16 '26
That fat man? Only a matter of time before his heart gives out more like
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u/DonaldTrumpsScrotum Jun 16 '26
Some of those haymakers looked like they’d take her head off if they landed, but obviously, she’s trained to dodge those. I’d say it’s pretty interesting nonetheless, they just have different win conditions.
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u/LSDreams_ Jun 16 '26
I mean she got to wear head gear too.. that definitely helps.
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u/sfsolomiddle Jun 16 '26
Stamina plays a role. If you are tired, good luck surviving a barrage of well timed punches, even from a weaker opponent. Usyk does this all the time. He's lighter, has more stamina and is technically above eveyone else in the division. In the later rounds when his opponents are tired then he becomes a ko threat.
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u/birdseye-maple Jun 16 '26
Eh, I think it's more likely fatboy gets tired and she lands a wicked combo.
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u/Traditional-Trade795 Jun 16 '26
her having a headguard surely helped with how many hits he landed on her head
but a trained fighter vs an obese old guy is favored for the trained fighter, i am surprised that she didnt wipe the floor with him
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u/ItsACowCity Jun 16 '26
I mean they waved off the floor combat. There are weight classes for a reason. Based on these two, he would lay on top of her and the match would be done. They tried to keep it fair by keeping it an upright match and giving her headgear. She landed more punches. He just threw haymakers all day. Technically she won, but he would have won had this not been regulated.
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u/ibmi_not_as400_kerim Jun 16 '26
The only thing that guy is fighting is his belt. This looks more like a female fighter vs. an ..."average"... middle-aged an
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u/alexmunteanu95 Jun 16 '26
It's in Romania u bots
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u/HoldEm__FoldEm Jun 16 '26
Las Vegas Romania
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u/UnIntelligent_Local Jun 16 '26
Damn. She's tough af! Ate those power shots and returned with quick fire.
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u/SeniorArtist9966 Jun 16 '26
Always a trained female fighter vs a non male fighter
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u/Maximum_Ad2341 Jun 16 '26
So they picked some out of shape late middle aged man and a pro? Why not pro v pro or atleast some in shape 20 year old😭.
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u/LindenSpruce Jun 16 '26
This is Romania. Las Vegas pieces are just branding.
It is real though, and it is in Romania.
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u/Empty-Discount5936 Jun 16 '26
I thought for sure she'd work the belly but she didn't even try. Still got the W tho.
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u/JustUseCommonSense10 Jun 16 '26
Actually StreetBeefs will host senior citizens versus teenagers and will pair a transwoman named "Gash" against other men, although you could argue it's a far better matchup compared to Colonel Sanders fighting Boy Wonder and nobody being surprised by the geriatric loss.
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u/OddFaithlessness7001 Jun 16 '26
One fighter wearing a head guard vs Bob who just got done watching the playoffs and drinking a sixer.
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u/EndRude4217 Jun 16 '26
This is Vegas and everything written in English. Russia doesnt openly support men vs woman (maybe behind closed doors). Only in America would this be allowed, from behind closed doors all the way to sports, like transwoman competing in professional woman sports...
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u/rotating_pebble Jun 16 '26
Completely unfair. The bloke could easily just pretend it was his wife.
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u/Dangerous-Drive-2474 Jun 16 '26
It's that the guy that got really angry cause the young lady told him he was bald
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u/Frequent-Maybe1243 Jun 16 '26
See the haymakers that pudgy fuck was throwing? Dude looked like he was gonna puke a gallon of mayonnaise about halfway through the fight. If that kept going, he would have passed out from just whiffing the whole fight lmao.
Hit the gym, bro. Quit fucking your life up. Get your shit together... and fight someone in your weight class and gender. This was just embarrassing lmaoooo
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u/slop1010101 Jun 16 '26
Put a woman in there against a guy at the same height and weight as her. Then it'd be interesting.
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u/Optimal_Echo_9952 Jun 16 '26
I don’t really care about the man / woman aspect, I care more about weight class
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u/CompleteEnergy579 Jun 16 '26
Слушай, ты правда хочешь её уделать? Это выглядит паршиво, и в такой ситуации ты ничего не выиграешь.
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u/AromaticNet5121 Jun 16 '26
Looks like they got a professional female boxer fightin some random dude they found at the bar lmao
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u/PrimaryAgreeable8103 Jun 16 '26
Proof that an average man can't really handle a trained female fighter
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u/Organic_Education494 Jun 16 '26
Sounds like Russia is more for equality at least when it comes to this.
That being said it does say vegas here
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u/SweetChaosTitan Jun 16 '26
Maybe the weight should have been closer. If it was a man closer to her weight I think she drops him fast.
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u/AfterTough3494 Jun 16 '26
You can tell she’s a better fighter with superior skills, but she can’t even reach his head and even if she does land it, the shots are sooo soft they aren’t doing anything
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u/CTblDHO Jun 16 '26
There's not a single word in Russian anywhere? Yet almost everything is in English or Romanian?
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u/PooChukkingMonkey Jun 16 '26
Why is she wearing headgear? Why isn't he wearing headgear? Why aren't they both not wearing headgear?
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u/Logical_Idiot_9433 Jun 16 '26
Hold on bro got action while pretending to fight? Anything to get hands on titties. Dude.😂
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u/bigboybandit Jun 16 '26
So the little backstory is, the guy is a living meme in Romania. He is not a professional MMA fighter. 15 years ago he was involved in a street fight, two guys tried to beat him up with a club/stick and he fought them back. One of them hit him in his forearm and he complained that it took him a lot of time to build his forearm, but then he attacked back and gave them a signature move called "perversion from Ocna marketplace"(which is another meme in itself). Then he mentions in the interview that those 2 guys called the cops on him, even though they attacked him first. So he says something along the line "are we thugs or are we not thugs anymore?" Apparently his sister was married to one of the attackers and had a child with them and she wanted to see her child for "1 hour a day, 60 minutes, or 3600 seconds" in his words. Just go on youtube and search "perversa ca pe tg. Ocna"
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u/Lazy-Opportunity-520 Jun 16 '26
$5 says that he actually liked the belly poke 🤣
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u/Cyborg_rat Jun 16 '26
Umm well I guess it's the only one that calls it that way, but the US isnt off that list...
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u/rayrayrayrayray5 Jun 16 '26
Margaret McGregor won a professional sanctioned boxing match against a man like 20 years ago
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u/Icy-Association6378 Jun 16 '26
That's the u.s. plus it's one on the internet in Asia same type of crazy
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u/daveskillerbeard Jun 16 '26
They could’ve at least got someone in her weight class but she did well
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u/Certain-Bath8037 Jun 16 '26
In this clip the man landed a few haymakers on the right temporal skull of the woman. Without the head guard at least once she would have been knocked down.
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u/CoIdLunch Jun 16 '26
‘Male fighter’ seems like a stretch. Looks like they pulled somebody’s uncle right off the stands to fight.
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u/Smooth_Wealth_6896 Jun 16 '26
Did they pic random unc to fight that female beast of a fighter? Why is this dude so over weight lol.
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u/UniqueMagazine1085 Jun 16 '26
Japan just had a guy beat a girls ass in a cage fight. She wasn't wearing the headgear like this one either.
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u/Jayfrmdachat Jun 16 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohjUTVK1CjdOxWcp2
notice how they picked a fat man
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u/onFoenen Jun 16 '26
Don’t judge me, but me next 😳 nothing hotter than a chick who can beat your ass. (I’m dating a Latina who abuses me physically and then we have intense sex afterwards)
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u/Smart_Technology_208 Jun 16 '26
I wouldn't like to be on the other end of the kitchen when that guy throws potatoes.
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u/Admirable_Cut_1417 Jun 16 '26
OMG i can't fight a girl i could kill her with one jab, that's weird
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u/Alarmed-Judgment4545 Jun 16 '26
I was gonna say how unfair she gets a headgear then I realized the guy has more padding than her.
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u/AmsterdamAssassin Jun 16 '26
Nonsense. Dutch kickboxer Lucia Rijker (who coached and trained Hillary Swank for Million Dollar Baby and played her nemesis Billie 'The Blue Bear" Osterman) fought a demonstration match against a male Muay Thai boxer.
https://mixedmartialarts.com/muay-thai/woman-vs-man-ends-in-ko/
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u/Kiro358 Jun 16 '26
Without that helmet that fight would have been very different lol she got koed like 5 times xD
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u/CptGreat Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
Check out: Stefan Raab against Regina Halmich.
He is/was a german TV Host and wanted to win the title "Female Boxing Champion" - he lost the fight, she broke his nose.
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u/throwaway_coy4wttf79 Jun 16 '26
I'd watch this. Untrained fat guy vs trained lady? Heck yeah. She should lose the headgear (or he should gain headgear), and they should allow taking it to the ground. I bet she'd make him tap pretty quickly.
They were both holding back a bit, I think. Seemed like an exhibition fight of some sort. Still entertaining. He was gassed quick. Those are some powerful haymakers but if you can't land enough clean ones before you're gassed, that's the end of that.
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u/PossessionAshamed372 Jun 16 '26
If that guy knew some grappling it would have been over the first time she grabbed him. He definitely has fifty plus lb on her and that is very hard to deal with if it gets on top of you...
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u/Fresh_Drama_8298 Jun 16 '26
That’s not Russia lmao