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MMA Needs to Grow Up

8/28/2017

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I get it. MMA fans had to change the dialogue from prefight saying "Mayweather is getting knocked out" to afterwards "McGregor isn't really a boxer". MMA fans should take the compliment that McGregor did better than expected and leave it at that.

It shows the maturity of the sport of MMA compared to boxing. When a boxer loses in the octagon, no one in boxing really gets riled up about it and realizes that they are different sports anyhow (before and after the fight), despite the gloating of mma fans as their sport is supposedly better. But when a boxer does win in the UFC (like Holm over Rousey), boxing fans give respect to their martial art of the sweet science without going overboard and saying that MMA is dead because someone who previously boxed won in a cage.

They are different sports and they don't have to be in competition - Boxing is boxing, MMA is NOT street fighting, a street fight is a street fight - MMA fans need to get out of the ideology and terminology of referring to their sport as being the closest thing to a street fight. Street fights are barbaric and immature and anything can happen. MMA is what it stands for, Mixed Martial Arts; give it respect as being that and not the disrespect of a back alley fight.

A combat sport is sadism with structure and that is art. Fighting outside of that is disgusting, and typically bullying. Self defense is needed in the outside world, but even that is a cruel act of nature as it is reflective of people fighting out of basic survival, not because they want to. Defending oneself in a sport is an art on display of two men who want to fight, exemplifying literature of the heart being written with fists and blood.
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Thoughts on Mayweather vs. McGregor

8/28/2017

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My thoughts on Mayweather vs. McGregor:

There couldn't have been a better example of a good stoppage. McGregor was exhausted and he was clearly hurt when he wobbled back from a punch on the button. He took repeated shots and was incapable of throwing back or even holding his hands up. Even the rounds before that, his punches had no power so the possibility of a "puncher's chance" was completely gone. And shortly before the stoppage, the ropes partially held him up from falling down. I've seen controversial stoppages before, but this shouldn't be one. This is almost all of the textbook reasons to stop a fight in one stoppage. Fans of McGregor should be glad that he could still walk and talk afterwards, and not in a hospital drinking through a straw.

And just to add on another hot topic about the fight: How did McGregor land more punches than Pacquiao? Because Floyd fought a totally different style than against Pacman. He's smarter than that. Pacquiao has one of the most powerful left hands, pound for pound, in the history of boxing; that's why Mayweather played defense in that fight. Floyd had the least amount of respect for the power of McGregor than he has had for an opponent in some time. He went in for the knockout and got it. He knew that Conor would tire out.
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