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Tony Jaa Vs Michael Jai White?


PLEASE!!!!!

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patience grasshopper !

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MichaeL Jai White because he has Muscular Physiques and his height he is more taller than Tony@

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In my opinion Tony Jaa would win. Tony has much more experience with Martial Arts than MJW. It could be a good fight but I can just see Tony coming out on top.

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I think somewhere along the line Dolph will kick both of their asses.

This movie might be some sort of Showdown in Little Tokyo homage....especially if Dolph partners up with Tony.

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It's not an homage to SHOWDOWN at all. The team up with an asian cop is a coincidental similarity, nothing more. The tone will be much darker too.

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Erm....ok not that I'm saying Michael would win but "much more experience"?? Seriously??

Michael Jai White is a black belt in 3 styles of karate, tang soo do, wushu, taekwondo and Kobudo, he has been training martial arts since the age of 8 and has won various national titles and championships. He used to teach martial arts also. Honestly how much more experienced do you want him to be?

Jaa has a pretty good repertoire himself (much of which is self taught) but they are pretty well matched in terms of experience.

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I think he said that just because he is asian. Both are great at their craft and I wouldn't call one better then the other.

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Both are great at their craft and I wouldn't call one better then the other.


Agreed, but its still fun imagining who would win in a real fight. I'd probably give the advantage to MJW, but Jaa would give him a run for his money for sure.

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MJW is a black belt in Kyokushin one of the toughest forms of martial arts in the world. Dolph is also 3rd Dan in Kyokuoshin. That's were their true fighting skills come from.

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The movie has great fighting scenes and action scenes with Tony and MJW http://dansmoviereport.blogspot.com/2015/04/skin-trade-movie-review.html

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"3 styles of karate, tang soo do, wushu, taekwondo and Kobudo" looks more like 4 styles

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Tang soo do, wushu, taekwondo and kobudo aren't karate. That's a total of seven martial arts.

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Taekwando is indeed one of the 700 different styles of Karate, and is the most popular karate form studied in the USA, because veterans of the Korean War brought it back to our shores after the war.

And the minute you start to “imagine” in martial combat is the minute your opponent has won.

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you're kidding...

MJW is a black belt in numerous martial arts...he's done it longer than Jaa has.

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well letss say they are similiar in skill and experience than the punching power/mass/weight will come into play so the answer is pretty obvious

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SPEED is the most important thing in a fight, look how small Bruce Lee was. Tony Jaa is FASTER than Mike White and the human body is delicate no matter how strong you are, so Jaa would most likely win. IF Mike White really was as fast as Tony Jaa then Mike would probably win but he is not. As good a martial artist as he is he lacks the acrobatics. Same thing would happen if he faced Scott Adkins in a real fight.

IF STRENGTH was what made fights bodybuilders would be able to beat up anyone but any half way decent martial artist can trash a bodybuilder.

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There isn't really anything that would clasify as THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. Speed is simply a part of several important components that make one into a great fighter. Speed, agility, strength, stamina, technique, heart. You can be as fast as you want, but if you lack the rest, than you're a poor fighter. Simple as that.

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Mass times speed equals impact. Impact plus precision equals effect.

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MJW may be a big guy, but he is fast and acrobatic. Maybe not as fast as Tony, but he has a big size advantage, while I don't think Tony has all that much of a speed advantage over MJW.

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You are an idiot. Going by your logic, every smaller fighter in the world will beat a heavyweight fighter. They got weight classes in combat sports for a reason.

MJW is a skilled martial artists who has the strength and size advantage so he would win against Jaa. If MJW was an average dude or just simply a bodybuilder than that is different, but he is not.

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Tony has much more experience with Martial Arts than MJW


Couldn't be further from the truth. MJW has been in martial arts since he was a kid. Eeven if TJ started as a kid, he'd still have less experience considering MJW is nine years older.

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at this time that gives Tony Jaa the youth advantage. I have seen BOTH of them in movies and as awesome as Mike is Tony is FASTER, SPEED is the most important thing in a fight, that was how BRUCE LEE kept winning. Yes he was strong for his size amazingly so and could do 2 fingered pushups I get it but at five and a half feet tall maybe five seven and maybe 140 pounds no way he could rely on that to beat a much bigger man, he beat them with speed.

If you put Bruce as he was before he died into the real world he would own Mike White and being bigger than Bruce Tony Jaa has less of a gap in size to make up for.

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First off, this is about Tony Jaa and Michael Jai White, not Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee is a rare specimen in that a man who dedicate his whole life for martial arts...
Saying Jaa would beat White simply because, in theory, can do that is simply ignoring the amount of efforts Bruce Lee had invested in his training.

Second, there are more factors than speed alone in fights.
There is the force generated in each hit, then the body's endurance to withstand a hit.
There is a reason why people don't pit Mayweather again Klitschko..

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You make me laugh !! :))))) Michael Jay White is the ONLY real master in Hollywood these days. This guy holds seven black belts, in Tang Soo Do, Wushu, Kyokushin,Shotokan, Tae Kwon Do, Kobudo, Goju Ryu, while Tony Jaa is more of a stuntman, although he is a master in Eskrima and Kino Mutai.

In a real fight, White would destroy the little Tony. So don't talk if you don't know the facts :)

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MJW is awesome. enjoy his movies and he can fight for sure, but Muay Thai is one of the toughest to beat. MJW also said he could beat Bruce Lee cuz he was bigger. Bruce was amazing. He wasn't just awesome in the movies, he's renowned as "The Master". Just cuz you're bigger doesn't always mean you'll win.

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The real Masters are old men whose names you’ve never heard.

I’d like to say how pleased I am to see so many fans here standing up for Michael Jai White. I mean no disrespect to Tony Jaa. I just people who’ve worked as hard and long as Michael has deserve to be recognized. I’ve always felt that MJW has been under appreciated in his career.

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ALL forms of martial art are equally tough to beat, IF the practitioner knows what s/he is doing. Debate over this style versus that style is literally pointless. All that matters is what YOU can do.

As Bruce Lee said, “A black belt is good for holding up your pants.”

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