Bo’s MMA announcement
- Thread starter LionLife
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Maybe it's just not as popular with wrestling purists...not really sure. Big picture, you and all others that enjoy the sport are following a top-10 sport, popularity-wise, by one source...;
1 Football
2 Baseball
3 Basketball
4 Ice Hockey
5 Soccer
6 Boxing
7 Auto Racing
8 Golf
9 Tennis
10 MMA
I like MMA.
I grew up liking watching boxing, but that standalone sport has deteriorated. I like watching striking, and I like watching grappling, and I reallllly like watching technical submissions. I like that there are enough rules in place to dissuade the 'anything goes' aspect of a street fight (no eye gouging, groin attacks, head butts), but otherwise there's plenty of freedom for one bro or phine to physically dominate their opponents, in a multitude of physical manners. As such, it's an excellent measurement of skill + badassery = Baddest MoFo.
I hate the weight-cutting rules, which, ironically in such a barbaric sport, allow athletes to become more dangerous to themselves than their opponents are to them. Although that in itself carries an essential Life Truth. But I pray for their kidneys--and not from kidney punches. Hopefully it won't be long before the regulating bodies catch up to Wrestling's institutional knowledge in his important health department.
But my favorite part of MMA is the "mixed" part. The fact that one bro at the very top of one skill's mountain can be completely overmatched b/c the other bro is more skilled at a different art is super compelling to me.
Less compelling is when fans try to re-parse the mixed part, and use it to throw shade when an Askren type, who's top skill is grappling, dominates superior strikers with his grappling. Like this terrible take I had to rebuke:
I grew up liking watching boxing, but that standalone sport has deteriorated. I like watching striking, and I like watching grappling, and I reallllly like watching technical submissions. I like that there are enough rules in place to dissuade the 'anything goes' aspect of a street fight (no eye gouging, groin attacks, head butts), but otherwise there's plenty of freedom for one bro or phine to physically dominate their opponents, in a multitude of physical manners. As such, it's an excellent measurement of skill + badassery = Baddest MoFo.
I hate the weight-cutting rules, which, ironically in such a barbaric sport, allow athletes to become more dangerous to themselves than their opponents are to them. Although that in itself carries an essential Life Truth. But I pray for their kidneys--and not from kidney punches. Hopefully it won't be long before the regulating bodies catch up to Wrestling's institutional knowledge in his important health department.
But my favorite part of MMA is the "mixed" part. The fact that one bro at the very top of one skill's mountain can be completely overmatched b/c the other bro is more skilled at a different art is super compelling to me.
Less compelling is when fans try to re-parse the mixed part, and use it to throw shade when an Askren type, who's top skill is grappling, dominates superior strikers with his grappling. Like this terrible take I had to rebuke:
