Anybody that tells muscle doesn't mean anything obviously has never fought or had a hard sparring session with a big guy. As long its a moderate amount of muscle and functional muscle it helps a lot. Muscle adds power as long as its not slowing you down. The hardest hitters are aren't the skinny guys or the bulked up guys. It's the fighters like mike tyson, Johnny Hendricks, quinton Jackson that hit the hardest. There welled muscled bodies adds a lot of power to them but its not enough to affect there speed or movement. There also strong to where if they end in a grappling situation with a big guy they won't be rag dolled.

Having more skill is what helps in fighting. Strength doesn't make a big difference in a fight. It's not about how strong a punch is, it's about how good and well thrown it is. That's what determines the quality of strikes - the technique.

it depends what kind of muscles he has. Let's say you take a body builder and a gymnastics practioner. Many gymnastics people go on to be great body builders, but body builders almost never are great at gymnastics.

There is a difference between muscle for looks, and functional muscle for the sake of doing something.

Well it helps, but only marginally.

If a punch is 100%, 98% is technique, 2% is raw power.

Bruce Lee never had "big" muscles, but he had well developed muscles. Be like Bruce Lee.

yes it would help in the "look" departement

99.99 percent of the sheeple wuld fall for it

but i look to someone like mark hunt for inspiration

I don't mean like ronnie coleman I mean like these fitness guys lets put the skills and techniques aside two MMA fighters battle does the one with better looking muscles and bigger muscles would have advantage? if you have bigger muscles does it mean you have stronger punches and more power?