A friend just showed me some highlights of Bob Sapp from Japanese K1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaKjk43BJxc&search=pride%20k1
All you fans, just how good is he, like could Royce choke him out??
Um…ouch.
He’s big, he’s a brawler.
Does that make him “good”?
sure, until he get’s beaten that is then it’s to the back of the line for Bob.
Who cares how good he is…Bob Sapp is some big mofo!
Did you see the biography on how strong he is…it was called Elektra.
Edited for typo.
I have never seen him before this video and quite frankly i might not sleep well tonight. He scares me.
Watching this clip i have to say one thing. He reminds me of Adam Sandler’s character Bobby Boucher from “The Waterboy.” Maybe something is wrong with his medulla oblongata.
brawler or not, he has somehting allot of martial artists dont have - a good offence. the dude sure isnt scared of attacking. he also dont stop, and seem to be pretty tuff.
more than what allot of other fighters out there can say.
not the cleanest fighter I’ve seen, but I would not want to be on the other side of the ring. 
yes bob sapp is a big guy, a monster to be exact
but hes not a skilled fighter, he can beat people down, but when it comes to skilled fighters he has no chance, fighters he has lost to tko or submission cro cop (broken orbital bone), nog (armbar), fujita (stoppage, GnP), hoost (well hoost lost but he was beating and couldnt continue)
bob sapp is just a gimmick fighter nothing else
He seems to be seen as a novelty in Japan (but then, many foreigners are! :D), but clearly he’s not a great trained fighter. He gases way to quickly. If the ring wasn’t there, all his opponents would need to do was run around until he’s too tired of chasing them. 
Wouldn’t want to fight him, but I wouldn’t want to study under him either.
Actually seems like he’s slowly starting to get a little more skilled. I think he may have turned the corner from “exfootball player who fights” to “fighter who used to play football”. I do think he’s got an unnatural advantage, which will keep me from ever really rooting for him; but I do give him credit for finally making some progress. It’s sad that it’s taken this long too, considering he’s been able to train with Bas, Oyama, Mo Smith, and all the other greats.
Bob Sapp is huge in japan MMA, what about the arm bar from the big fella?! hahaha thats what im talking about!
I think i read that he is also learning boxing skills too, imagine his hands like a true boxer, FORGETABOUT IT!
Yum Cha,
I dont think your bak mei Ging will effect that man, what do you say?
Maybe place a friggin landmine when he walks out you can take him.
that guy is unstoppable
i saw this guy in an odd movie called Izo. I was scared of him then but I had no idea:eek:
He’s this good.
He’s getting better though. Now he can make it into the second round without gassing sometimes. It’s academic really, he’ll be dead within 10 years.
FT, forget the Pak Mei ging, friggen 45 cal ging wouldn’t stop him!
I figured he’d been beaten before, he’s obviously not highly technical, I just wanted to know who, how and how many times.
I wonder if he gives Chuck Norris bad dreams? LOL.
Edit:
Thanks for the vid link Mat, Chuck and I will sleep better at night. Well, maybe Chuck…
Here is the Cro-cop beating he took. I have never seen a fighter that big that cannot take a body shot. Hoost Dropped him a bunch of times before the “MUNGO SMASH!” Sapp style won out. Hoost was fine and after Sapp couldn’t continue due to a broken hand and not really being able to walk after 500 leg kicks Hoost went on to win the K-1 again.
Cro-Cop/Sapp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNMgevrH8EI&search=cro%20cop
Hoost/Sapp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txkCFfLpBig&search=hoost%20sapp
I definetly think Sapp has grown not just in size but in fitness and technique, imagine if gets mount?
lol Yummy, you wanna have armour piercing p/eyes bro.
I don’t think he’s any good, but to be fair, the shot that actually stopped him was the overhand left that broke his orbital after the mid-level kick. The kick just opened him up. I guess the contorted body hugging position he adopted was due to being in a world of pain and not particularly specific to the shot in the heat of the moment, so it still looks as though it was the body shot that caused the problem.
If you look at that fight, the more pertinent factor is that Sapp is already gassed and looks relieved when Mirko takes the nut shot.
Sapp isn’t all that good, but he demonstrates something terribly important to a lot of people who seem desperate to avoid it:
Size and strength matter.
Yeah, he’s had some big losses - against TOP fighters.
He’s definitely a freak show, no doubt about it. But size and strength matter.
size and strength matters, but bob also shows us that skill and ability counts too.
top fighters can defeat him even when they are not as big and maybe not as strong because they have superior skill and ability.
so, by that equation we can surmise that size and strength count when you’re dealing with someone who has no skill and ability.
Size and strength always count. Looking at the Hoost fight, I think, illustrates what an advantage size and strength are. They allow Sapp to make a lot of mistakes and still win, while his opponent cannot afford to do the same. Fighting a monster like that, you will pay dearly for every mistake you make.