re: Which POTUS would have been the best MMA fighter?

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And Abe Lincoln as my dark horse. Reach and big hands go a long way.

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I don't know about this...Ultimately he proved he couldn't take a shot.

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Franklin Mother fricking Pierce

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he'd be too drunk -- "The hero of many a well fought bottle"

For reference.

Lincoln was tall as shite. That reach would have stung some faces.

Pretty sad we went from real men's men that fought in wars, split wood for rail ties, went on safari, and had real balls, to what has been leading this nation as of late.

Clinton= draft dodging rapist
Bush jr.= rode off his daddy
O dumb dumb= well I don't have the time
Trump= basically a real estate mogul





Dark days my friends

as Sheriff of Buffalo Grover Cleveland actually hanged 3 men

That's got to count for something

It's Teddy Roosevelt, no question. He was a grappler and a champion boxer and while several other Presidents were badass, none of them were quite at TR's level.

LINK

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Theodore Roosevelt’s opening line was hardly remarkable for a presidential campaign speech: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible.” His second line, however, was a bombshell. “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.” Clearly, Roosevelt had buried the lede. The horrified audience in the Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, gasped as the former president unbuttoned his vest to reveal his bloodstained shirt. “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” the wounded candidate assured them. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a bullet-riddled, 50-page speech. Holding up his prepared remarks, which had two big holes blown through each page, Roosevelt continued. “Fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet—there is where the bullet went through—and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.” Only two days before, the editor-in-chief of The Outlook characterized Roosevelt as “an electric battery of inexhaustible energy,” and for the next 90 minutes the 53-year-old former president proved it. “I give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot; not a rap,” he claimed. Few could doubt him. Although his voice weakened and his breath shortened, Roosevelt glared at his nervous aides whenever they begged him to stop speaking or positioned themselves around the podium to catch him if he collapsed. Only with the speech completed did he agree to visit the hospital.

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Dark horse: Gerald Ford, former Michigan All American

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Good choice- athletic, big and strong.

Nixon too, another former college football player.

Don't forget that long tall Texan W.

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TR had asthma. Can't see him going 5 min rounds very well.

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if you were alive when he was younger you could have seen it in person. He was a boxer since boyhood.

So yeah, I'm going with teddy.