yeah i have no love for boring wrestling fights either. But i also hate guys that have garbage striking slugging away at each other. The sport has to get to the level of the NBA, NFL, NHL etc where only the top of the top are in it. Even if your not the best in the league your still a sick player. The UFC isn’t anywhere near that level.
sure you can. What does team based or individual have anything to do with the skill level of the people in the sport. Ok…compare it to tennis then. You don’t see people that don’t know how to swing a forehand that are playing in the pros. Or the pga…there’s no shit golfers on the tour.
Do you golf? cause it’s ridiculously hard to even be a scratch golfer…so no there’s no shit golfers on the tour. I’m a good hockey player, i’ve played with pro hockey players. I know how good they are and what kind of level it takes to be in the pros. MMA isn’t there yet. It’s getting that way…but it’s still a new sport. I’m going to use tuf as an example they are all going to be in the ufc…most of them shouldn’t be. yeah most of them are going to get cut eventually…but they shouldn’t even make it to begin with.
The nhl did a show like that…which was actually better than tuf in regards the actual players that showed. The two guys that won it and got a try out…didn’t make a team.
In one way i understand the fight game is abit different because when it comes to fights people like freak fights and big name fights and all that. But the sport is never going to be huge like one of the big 4 if people like junie browning and kimbo keep get thrown in there.
For hockey there’s more kids eating/sleeping/breathing hockey from pee-wee leagues through high-school teams in Minnesota than all the fighters training in the world. There’s probably more kids playing football in Florida than fighters in the US.
The larger the talent pool, the better the top 5/1% are going to be.
imo. in the past whenever people fought they used weapons and fought in groups to the death.
it was nothing like it is now.
being someone into kungfu, i can see a bunch of invisible weapons when people are doing kung fu forms, and the fact that people fought in groups explains to me the huge empty hole in the ground game of almost every traditional fighting art.
the japanese are the exception in that i believe that samurai that fought in wars fought 1-on-1 duels instead of fighting as a “team”.
which is why they super lucked out when a tsunami hit one of the great khans hordes (hordes used teamwork and fought as a group and not as individuals), thereby preventing japan from becoming part of china.
That typhoon/tsunami or whatever that prevented the Mongolians from hitting Japan is where the name Kamikaze (Divine Wind) came from historically right? :china:
Look I golf, at my peak I was a scratch player. Havent played in a few years, but my handicap is 9 last I checked. And im going to tell you this now… there are A TON of shit golfers on tour, if you want to compare that to the UFC.
There are so many golfers on tour with no wins.
The one-on-one battle style of the Samurai is greatly romanticized in modern times and based mostly on the Hagakure and Book of Five Rings. In reality, while more stylized battles could be found between leaders, and battles between Samurai-class warriors were often duels for honor/prestige/revenge, the general soldiers still flailed around with swords and other weapons. The armies of Minamoto no Yoritomo (founder of the Shogunate system) or Nobunaga were not fought using 1v1 middle-of-the-battlefield duels. The term “Samurai” was not used to refer specifically to a warrior class until roughly the 12th century (with the establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate) and records of massed charges in battle using cavalry and conscripted troops generally date back to within 100-150 years of the same period.
Swords are like guns, there’s usually not alot of use for ground-game.
The mongols launched a number of attacks in the 13th century, but twice the vast bulk of their force was destroyed by Typhoons. Kami = god/divine. Kaze = wind (or a nasal cold, depending on the context
Disclaimer: I am halfway through my East Asian Studies minor. My info could be suspect, but I’m pretty confident of it.
Getting KO’d by Marquardt and doing nothing but wrestling vs Anderson Silva and Yushin Okami = shown improved game? IF you pulled your head out of your ass and watched the fights, they’ve shown jack shit
