Everybody's MMA

[heavyweightchamp]

It's funny to me since the popularity of the reality shows how everyone is an MMA or ultimate or pride fighter wanna be now..... Especially without ever having fought in any other sport before. A little advice for the novice guys who want to tell people they fight MMA or other because of it's popularity and hardcore style, PLEASE dont try and jump right in thinkin you're tough emough!!! Most, if not all of the fighters have been world class national wresting, grapling, or boxing/ kickboxing champions for years and have a great trainer that understands the sport. It's funny to me that it has become the "wanna be" sport and how everyone is SO tough right, NO! Learn stand up and by that I dont mean hitting the bag every so often, master it! Spar with top ranking boxers, same thing for wrestling. You would be surprised how many suppossed MMA guys come to our gym with a chip on their shoulder about "MMA dude MMA" and have no idea of the basics and look foolish when I punish them barey breaking a sweat. Remember guys the fight starts out in a stand up position and you cant jump to level 10 without going through 1-9 first. Goodluck!

 

[MikeMartial]

That was totally awesome.

 

[ass_face]

It's funny to me since the popularity of the reality shows how everyone is an MMA or ultimate or pride fighter wanna be now..... Especially without ever having fought in any other sport before. A little advice for the novice guys who want to tell people they fight MMA or other because of it's popularity and hardcore style, PLEASE dont try and jump right in thinkin you're tough emough!!! Most, if not all of the fighters have been world class national wresting, grapling, or boxing/ kickboxing champions for years and have a great trainer that understands the sport. It's funny to me that it has become the "wanna be" sport and how everyone is SO tough right, NO! Learn stand up and by that I dont mean hitting the bag every so often, master it! Spar with top ranking boxers, same thing for wrestling. You would be surprised how many suppossed MMA guys come to our gym with a chip on their shoulder about "MMA dude MMA" and have no idea of the basics and look foolish when I punish them barey breaking a sweat. Remember guys the fight starts out in a stand up position and you cant jump to level 10 without going through 1-9 first. Goodluck!

Bro, that is so true. I have been doing "MMA" off and on for years. I wrestled a little in school, but I would never consider myself world class. We have guys come in all the time proclaiming to be a bad ass and a nobody like me plants them on their ass and teaches them a lesson. The worst incident was when I was at a bar and a group of tatooed jackasses were acting foolish and I started talking to them... they said they were all "cage fighters". I started asking them questions about ju jitsu training etc... and they looked dumbfounded. There are a lot of clueless "cage fighters" running around nowadays.

 

[1392477]

Oh, so true.
As with most things the ones doing all of the talking are the worst of all, the top athletes don't have to proclaim anything, their actions (track record) speak volumes.

 

[heavyweightchamp]

That was totally awesome.

thanks for the comments bro keep bashin!

 

[heavyweightchamp]

Bro, that is so true. I have been doing "MMA" off and on for years. I wrestled a little in school, but I would never consider myself world class. We have guys come in all the time proclaiming to be a bad ass and a nobody like me plants them on their ass and teaches them a lesson. The worst incident was when I was at a bar and a group of tatooed jackasses were acting foolish and I started talking to them... they said they were all "cage fighters". I started asking them questions about ju jitsu training etc... and they looked dumbfounded. There are a lot of clueless "cage fighters" running around nowadays.

HAhaha the tatooed jackasses best bescribes them tooo, OMFG funny the same dude that coma around my gym have the same shit! Hey thanks for the feed back bro keep bashin!

 

[heavyweightchamp]

That was totally awesome.

Thanks dog tryin to keep it real...

 

[alex2678]

Great post. I've been seeing the same thing more and more these days. Ever since UFC really took off in the early to mid 90's you get tons of kids (and adults) who suddenly think they're badass because they rented all the videos....twice. What really gets to me is all the teenagers who have these little fight club type fights in their backyard and never actually take the time to learn boxing, wrestling or any type of martial arts.

 

[oxymed]

I am even getting sick of seeing all of the "TAPOUT" stickers on cars!....I bet they dont even train.

 

[alex2678]

Hahaha. You beat me to it. I was gonna mention there's this guy at my gym who shadowboxes in between sets and at least once a week he wears a tap out t-shirt. I asked him what style he trains in and he said he used to box "a little " back in college.

 

[MikeMartial]

Well it's become no different than any televised professional sport.

There's more fans than players, period. How many guys put NHL flags on their cars during playoffs, or wear NFL tee shirts all damn year? I expect we'll see a lot more fat guys wearing Sprawl shirts and sporting Tap Out bumber stickers soon enough....

 

[plrpower]

I question wheather its worse than when those AND 1 videos came out, and everyone "forgot" how to play basketball and did dumb shit insted ahhaha.

This does bring up a good point, I am a fan and was a good high school wrestler, and "tryed" some kickboxing. My friends ask why i dont try to get into the UFC ahahhaha. It takes 40 mins to explain what kind of dedcation and extream lifestlye that would take. hahaha

 

[heavyweightchamp]

You guys are killin me with the comments... LOL How exactly right we all are, all I can say is next time you see a MMA wanna be or tap out dude give em a big smile shake your head and know it's all a joke! And dotn waste your time talking to them! keep bashin guys!

 

[Djimbe]

Well , I stay here because this site is NOT an example , but most of the so-called "MMA Crowd" on the Internet is full of EXACTLY this type of shit . There is a website that SWEARS that its "Weeding Out the Bull From Martial Arts" and they have ppl on there that have been talking about MAs for 4 years and Training in them for 9 months on thhere telling everyone that dosent do BJJ , Muay Thai , Wrestling , Judo or Boxing that they "Suck" or whatever . End up seeing this guy spar and he fights like a Schoolgirl . My wife trains in three MAs and trains EVERY day , and relates a Story about Choking out a Wrestler while rolling with him and thats "IMPOSSIBLE" because she "Does Kong Few" . There is so much Bigotry and Elitism , and Style Whoring that its pathetic .

Also Im sick of these NINJAWRESTLERS !!! They SEEM to be everywhere but Ive never met one . You see , EVERY Vid on the Internet of ANYONE doing a Takedown sucks , and any REAL wrestler would do it like ______ ! And ANY Wrestler will AUTOMATICALLY take down ANYONE from ANY other style , no matter how long theyve been training , and no matter the Size difference !

 

[Kane Fan]

you don't really need to be able to spar with topranking boxers to do well in MMA, but if you have the option go for it