Let's settle this once for all (male vs female fighting)

I haven't seen the movie but read through the comments.

I think too much credence is given to the hand to hand training of law enforcement and military. Some of course in that field take it to a high level and very seriously, but even then they are typically not strong in a well rounded MMA sense. Their training is diversified into many other areas (fire arms, scenarios, protocol, survival, equipment/tech, in some cases stealth etc.). On your average day, your average guy in law enforcement or military is nowhere near the fight readiness of a top MMA fighter. They simply spend the majority of their days doing very different things. One spends 4-6 hours a day training hand to hand, one spends 1-6 hours a week. That's a staggering disparity.

If you don't have martial arts experience, it's hard to understand just how dominating someone with more experience than you can be. MMA fights try to match people of similar skill to make longer exciting fights. But if you've ever seen a fight end in 10 seconds, that's what a top MMA fighter can do to even a lightly trained average person consistently over and over. Whatever a moderately trained guy will do, they've had it thrown at them 10,000 times by someone more skilled and will counter them hard. A little training can be dangerous because it's hard to know just how outmatched you can be until you experience it.

There's a famous Bas Rutten bar fight where he is knocking out security (possibly cops) that wanted to pick a fight with him and he needed as little as one or two shots each to drop them. Then they were getting up and he could put them right back down, then they started grabbing broom handles... I forget how many there were, but it sounded less like a fight than a game of whack-a-mole. He tells the whole story on a Joe Rogan podcast.

That's enough about the disparity in the level of training.

To bring women into it, I can only say that many times I've seen women easily dominate someone with inferior experience but superior strength and weight, and I've been on the receiving end of it. In my limited experience sparring with women, I didn't think their disadvantage was a lack of strength (which is easily trumped by technique), but a lack of "power". By power I mean generating force quickly with "snap" or "explosive force" such as that needed for a knockout, definitive takedowns, quickly change position etc. What power translates into is less time needed to take advantage of a situation, or less time to create advantageous positions. So although I would not be surprised to see female top MMA fighters beat the crap out of inferior male opponents all day, I would be surprised to see them knocking them out like dominoes (whereas I wouldn't be surprised to see a male do this) and ragdolling them around consistently. A top female MMA fighter in Bas Rutten's situation is less likely to be able to drop guys in one or two shots like a game of whack-a-mole and will likely need more time to use superior skill which with multiple opponents spells trouble.

That being said knockout power is a mysterious thing that some people have at 140, and some at 200 don't have. I don't find it far fetched that a highly trained women at 170 would have it against a male. But the proof is in the pudding, and I don't see enough of a fight record out there to say how far fetched it would be to have a women knocking guys out like dominoes. But I'm sure far more ridiculous things than that happen :)

Lighten up, Francis

I don't know why you boys all have your whitey tighties up in a bunch. This is a MOVIE. It's not some feminist propaganda trying to prove that women are as physically powerful as men. IT'S A MOVIE! Gina Carano is a beautiful female specimen who is incredibly fierce and strong for a woman. Can't we all just appreciate that?

Um catwoman and batgirl take down plenty of huge tough-looking bad guys all the time. It's a movie based on a fictional character. That character just has the strength of aaaahnold but the body of a goddess. Just like a comic book character.

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Are you stupid? You do realize that this is a movie, and not an mma fight right? If you watched it, then you know that she is also a highly trained military person as well in the film. Obviously she would get crushed against male professional fighters at her own weight in real life. Also in real life she would beat most average men her weight. However, that has nothing to do with a fictional action movie.

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FYI: A few months after beating Carano, Santos tested positive for anabolic steroids. This is calling the validity of all of her past victories (including over Carano) to come under scrutiny.

This whole argument is moot. "A girl like her couldn't possibly dominate bigger and stronger men." Um, from what I saw, Tatum and Fassbender were beating her ASS until she managed to "tactfuly" gain the upper hand. She beat them by TECHNIQUE, not BRUTE FORCE or POWER.

I neither agree or disagree with all the stuff that has been said. I will simply plead the FIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it´s a MOVIE!!!!!
but yea, if shes a expeet hand2hand traind agent she cud pound "soldiers and swat" becous thay are more into guns :)
but as the fight to her "partner" chaning tatum also highley traind, he whas going to win if not the dud had helpt her :)

in real life, its good that girls dont compeet with guys for healsth safety..