Feel the same way.. Just not a sport I enjoy watching at all.. But as you said.. no condemnation.. just don't know why anyone would want to put them selves thru that sport..
Bo Nickal MMA
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Feel the same way.. Just not a sport I enjoy watching at all.. But as you said.. no condemnation.. just don't know why anyone would want to put them selves thru that sport..
I like MMA and think it gives athletes from our sport another option to monetize their skills beyond becoming coaches. Would I prefer legitimate professional wrestling? Of course, but that's been tried many times without much success.
Personally, I'd like to see Bo stick it out through 2024 but understand the window to monetize his skills is short and he has to do what he thinks is right for him.
Personally, I'd like to see Bo stick it out through 2024 but understand the window to monetize his skills is short and he has to do what he thinks is right for him.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I love the MMA thing. Guys talk smack and actually get to put up or shut up. MMA gives guys a chance to actually use all of the disciplines including wrestling. Folkstyle wrestling is a great base to becoming an excellent MMA fighter. I watch (if I have nothing else to do) freestyle wrestling when it is final X or any event featuring top folkstyle stars, but I always wish I could watch the same guys competing in folkstyle instead. I like control. Folkstyle wrestling and MMA both feature control where freestyle awards too many chicken sh_t scoring moves for my taste. The great thing about having so many young stars coming out of our college ranks lately is there are plenty of guys for each sport. Bo is fun to watch even if he is just jumping off of bales of hay.
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...;
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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:
Bo has big plans for an MMA training Gym next door to M2, outside of Bellfonte, PA. Best of luck to Bo in his new endeavor!
https://www.collegian.psu.edu/sports/wrestling/article_3ae7ba34-88d9-11ea-b5a0-33b56be73e44.html
https://www.collegian.psu.edu/sports/wrestling/article_3ae7ba34-88d9-11ea-b5a0-33b56be73e44.html
I hope the two gyms will get along.
Feels good that these star athletes are deciding to lay down roots here instead of bolting back to their home towns or other parts of country.
What Cael has done for the State College area is just incredible. And it goes so much deeper than just the college team. Years ago they laughed at us over on HR when we said Caels next project would be turning the NLWC into the premier club in the country. Who's laughing now? So what's next? I won't bet against a Cael protege taking his youth club and surpassing Young Guns. Then maybe another Cael disciple putting his MMA club on the map in a very big way.
I think it's all coming folks. Iowa fans need to just stop saying Iowa City is the mecca for wrestling. Cael and his boys are building an empire....and they are doing right here in our back yards!
What Cael has done for the State College area is just incredible. And it goes so much deeper than just the college team. Years ago they laughed at us over on HR when we said Caels next project would be turning the NLWC into the premier club in the country. Who's laughing now? So what's next? I won't bet against a Cael protege taking his youth club and surpassing Young Guns. Then maybe another Cael disciple putting his MMA club on the map in a very big way.
I think it's all coming folks. Iowa fans need to just stop saying Iowa City is the mecca for wrestling. Cael and his boys are building an empire....and they are doing right here in our back yards!
Lots of room to throw shit around lol60,000 sq ft facility ?!
Is that a typo ?
(Thats ~ 245ft x 245ft... that’s over an acre under roof)
The article was actually mis-typed. Its a 6,000 square foot facilty
60,000 sq ft facility ?!
Is that a typo ?
(Thats ~ 245ft x 245ft... that’s over an acre under roof
hey, don’t judge, Bo needs ample room for those Myles-flippin stones of his.60,000 sq ft facility ?!
Is that a typo ?
(Thats ~ 245ft x 245ft... that’s over an acre under roof
I drove passed it yesterday. It’s literally in the back corner of DT’s M2 Club parking lot. Downtown Pleasant Gap. 😂
It's certainly not hard to find. Bring the damn taco place back!!!
Now? Or in two to three years? Big difference I suspect.
i remember a post a couple of pages back (probably before OTT) where bo was checking out the interior while it was being built and i think he said the first floor would be space for like boxing/bjj classes for the general public and then the top floor would be more for the 'pros'
Not even going to lie. This is an insane way to start your career. To have a gym run by you before you even have an amateur fight.
ATT really sees value (obviously) in establishing a gym in State College. It makes sense, an opportunity to learn wrestling from Bo and whoever he can get in as instructors as well as recruit potential PSU wrestlers.
ATT really sees value (obviously) in establishing a gym in State College. It makes sense, an opportunity to learn wrestling from Bo and whoever he can get in as instructors as well as recruit potential PSU wrestlers.
It's Bo's diabolical mind f$#@ for HR. Obviously tied to money laundering from the slush fund.
i think both. i'm assuming it'll be very similar to this: https://weston.myamericantopteam.com/att-schedule/
mostly kids martial arts classes in the evenings which leaves days free for the pros to train. bo would probably be an instructor for the wrestling/grappling classes.
Got ya, thanks.
So who's going to open the Nittany Cub Daycare and have them covered from birth through adulthood along with M2/PSU/NLWC/ATT?
I hear there's a guy in wrestling circles that can help him take it public and keep the stock to limited release
Ahem!! Mrs. SWPA is due with our fourth in late August. I think we could accommodate.
He gave a video tour on his IG a while back. 2nd floor is the domain of the pro athletes.
I too married a Maddie. But occasionally her mood changes.
Bo's MMA career is off to a good start. Man I loved watching that guy wrestle. Keep up the good work Bo!https://www.blackshoediaries.com/2021/11/6/22766536/2-0-bo-nickal-knocks-out-opponent
