How Many Average Joes Does it Take To Beat a Professional? Romania Sent 10 Amateur Fighters Into The Octagon to Face 2 Professionals

I have to assume the rules of this particular fight state that fighters are only allowed to fight on their feet. If not, then this would be some of the worst decision making I've seen from amateurs outside of the porn industry. Just grab their legs guys. Have one person wrap around each professional fighter's leg like a monkey on a tree and don't let go while everyone else smashes their faces in. But that must have been off limits. I still can't help but think there was a better strategy they could have used. But props to the amateur at the 36 second mark who knocked the fat professional on his ass. For the rest of his life he'll be able to say he punched a professional fighter off his feet. That's pretty neat. Even if the professional fighter was facing the complete opposite direction, essentially making it a complete sucker punch.

And even if that same amateur also has footage of himself running away from the very professional fighter he knocked down like a Romanian school girl.

There's a market out there for "professional athlete" vs "alarmingly high number of amateur athletes". It doesn't have to be limited to fighting mixed martial arts either. That's just the obvious one. For some reason, eastern nations are the only countries who seem willing to capitalize on this market. I don't know why. It's high-level entertainment. Who could forget when in Japan (2018) three professional soccer players took on 100 small children. 

Fantastic television. The possibilities are endless. How many Barstool Sports employees would it take to beat the Los Angeles Lakers? Would 10 of us make for a close game, or would we still lose by 50? I gotta think 20 of us on the court at one time would be able to get the job done. I'm pretty certain there's no number of players that could level the field with an MLB team. But packing a baseball diamond shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of amateurs… have them play as close to the plate as legally allowed… they start taking line drives to the throat on the rare occasions in which the MLB players don't hit home runs. That could be something. How many children would it take to push a single sumo wrestler out of the ring? Could an 8-man amateur scramble team beat Scottie Scheffler? There's so much that could be done.

Beyond trying to best professionals with sheer numbers, there's some other theories I'd like to see tested out. Somewhere in the world there has to be a human being tall and fat enough to take up the entire opening of a hockey net. There has to be. Some people are so fat. When they craned Gilbert Grape's obese dead mother out of her home, they really should have taken her to an ice rink and dropped her in the crease. Just to get an idea for how close we are. One of these days someone is going to be big enough to do it. It could change the landscape of the NHL forever.

I know a long time ago there was an MLB team who sent a little person up to bat and he was walked on four pitches. Even though it worked perfectly, for some reason nobody ever embraced that strategy. You're telling me if it's bases loaded, tie game, bottom of the 9th, it wouldn't behoove the New York Yankees to send world's smallest man, the 2-foot, 1-inch Afshin Ghaderzadeh to pinch hit? You think Aroldis Chapman is doing anything other than walking home the winning run when facing this guy?

Honestly an MLB team rostering Afshin Ghaderzadeh would not be a bad move at all. He would be a weapon as a pinch hitter in late game situations. Relievers would be shaking in their boots every time they saw Afshin standing in the on deck circle. There's a whole world of possibilities, and hypothetical scenarios in sports that could be played out. If only there was a company with the bandwidth and the resources to makes some of these things happen. If Patrick Mahomes' dad vs John Rocker doesn't pay the bills at the upcoming Rough N' Rowdy, it might be time for Barstool to dip their toes in the "multiple people fighting at once" game. Those clips go viral every time. There's potential there. Think about guys.