Anglerphobe wrote:You seem to be missing my point. It's not strength and size itself that I'm denying the usefulness of but looking super muscular like a comic book character. Some fighters do look like that (Eddie Alvarez, Anthony Joshua, Sage Northcutt, Vitor Belfort, Jessica Andrade, Chris Cyborg) but you don't have to, and most fighters don't. Some don't even look any more muscular than an average person. Looking buff is not essential for being a strong, powerful fighter.
Giant superhero muscles are typical of bodybuilders, and hardly unusual in martial artists, but it shouldn't be considered surprising or noteworthy if a fighter doesn't have them. Both male and female fighters can have that skinny body type, or an unremarkable amount of muscle definition compared to normal people. My point is that you don't have to look big and muscly to be powerful and dangerous as a martial artist. For all the jacked mini hulks I mentioned above, there are skinny and pudgy opponents who compete against them in the same weight division.
Let's rewind.. I originally said something along the lines of "You'd think warriors would have a bit of muscle on them" which I think is reasonably true. This whole "fighters don't have to have giant superhero bodybuilder muscles" is all you.