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Mikezilla:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 13, 2011, 01:14:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on May 13, 2011, 01:10:06 pm ---Not to mention people dont look to MMA fighters as "heroes" like sports people try to make the players of major sports out to be.

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The media sure doesn't, I agree there.  Go to the mall and look around, though.  Every single teenage boy has an MMA based shirt on.  Every one of them.  Tapout, Affliction, UFC, Extreme Couture, or some other random fight group most have never heard of... all of them.  Those kids are looking up to the fighters at least as much if not more than team sport athletes now.

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Im with you on that too, but its mostly because the UFC (Im well aware that the UFC is a brand, and MMA is the sport, but cmon, its the only real organization so Im just going to refer to it as that) is trendy right now. I live in a fight town too, so believe me, you can see all the new kids that have seen the last season of the show and think that they can be "a fighter" even though they have never thrown a punch. I wouldnt go as far to say that they are looking up to them, but mostly in the sense that being a fighter commands a different type of respect than a major athelete would. More of a threat. Unless youre a big black guy wearing a jersey lol. Kinda like "hey watch out, Im wearing a fight brand t-shirt so youre supposed to think that Im a fighter so back off" kinda mentality.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 13, 2011, 02:49:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 13, 2011, 02:43:11 pm ---Is MMA still about 20 minutes of build up about how the fighters have been studying mystical martial arts for 50 years and then turns into "who can tackle the other guy first and punch him in the face"?

Cause if it is, I got over that crap in the 90s.

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Now it's a jiu jitsu - boxing - wrestling triangle often decided by whoever is better at their second best discipline.  On rare occasions someone has some other skills but it is almost always two guys dealing with those three specific skillsets.

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Can they hit each other with chairs? I think that's the most important thing...

vorghagen:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 13, 2011, 02:43:11 pm ---Is MMA still about 20 minutes of build up about how the fighters have been studying mystical martial arts for 50 years and then turns into "who can tackle the other guy first and punch him in the face"?

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Well........ yeah http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/15/

hypernova:
All matches in MMA devolve into a hug-fest at some point or another.

Ironically, I find the few matches that I've actually watched a total borefest.

What amazes me is the amount of people willing to shell out $40 or $50 or $60 or whatever it is for each "main event"...and wow.  UFC is actually charging for HD versus SD.  What a bunch of ---Deutsche Frankfurters---.  And looking at the schedule over their lifetime...

Started in '93 with UFC1.  Had about 3-5 events per year up until the mid 2000s.  It jumped, and in 2006, there are nearly 20 per year.  In 2010, there were 24 main events.  Of those, 17 were numbered.  24 events total.  Every two weeks.  How exactly are these supposed to be billed as big events when they happen biweekly??  So far they've got 20 scheduled through October this year, with a 21st unnamed in November.

I'll give 'em this:  They're milking this cow for all it's worth while they can.

And I'll concur with Chad.  For most young males, it's all I ever see on these people.  And their cars.

DCsegaDH:
I actually enjoy pro wrestling more than MMA, I think MMA is super boring. And I know that pro wrestling is not real, but I actually like it more even though it's not as popular as UFC. I use to be kinda into the UFC back in 2009, but I can't find anything I like about it anymore.

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