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BitPlayer wrote:

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banjo wrote:
Yep because he's a bloke she's a bird.

For woman vs man fights to be fair - the woman must outweigh the man by a minimum of 40%.
Realistically that's a 12 stone woman vs a Super-Bantam. Laila Ali vs Scott Quigg anyone ?!
Macgregor would masticate Katie Taylor even if she outskilled him.

Science bit.
Aggregated data of absolute strength indicates that females have, on average, 40-60% the upper body strength of males, and 70-75% the lower body strength.[79] The difference in strength relative to body mass is less pronounced in trained individuals. In Olympic weightlifting, male records vary from 5.5× body mass in the lowest weight category to 4.2× in the highest weight category, while female records vary from 4.4× to 3.8×, a weight adjusted difference of only 10-20%, and an absolute difference of about 30% (i.e. 472 kg vs 333 kg for unlimited weight classes)(see Olympic weightlifting records). A study, carried about by analyzing annual world rankings from 1980–1996, found that males' running times were, on average, 11% faster than females'.[80]

Males typically have larger tracheae and branching bronchi, with about 30 percent greater lung volume per body mass. On average, males have larger hearts, 10 percent higher red blood cell count, higher hemoglobin, hence greater oxygen-carrying capacity. They also have higher circulating clotting factors (vitamin K, prothrombin and platelets). These differences lead to faster healing of wounds and higher peripheral pain tolerance.[83]

I'm not convinced on the 40% bit. First it says it is less pronounced, you'd need to check by how much that actually means, not just assume it's 40%. BUt you're also assuming a linear relationship between strength and weight

Coco wrote:Didn't Michael Gomez fight a transsexual in an unlicensed fight?
Taylor stands a far better chance v McGregor than he does against Mayweather.
And McGregor would completely have his head boxed off against Skeete, it would be an absolute mismatch.