I knew the minute i saw the thread title i would come in here and see some guy(s) who either think they are a ninja and dont fight because they know the deadly kung fu poison hand of death and dont want to harm anyone, some hippie overreacting to all the barbaric violence, or some middle aged couch potato talking about how he could beat one of these ultimate fighter doods and then proceed to drone on about his street fights and how that stuff dont work in the hood. What gang were some of you cold mofos rolling with?the riffs? the baseball furies? help me out here

Martial arts discussions on no MA forums are the best.

Originally posted by getreadyalready
I don't know why everyone assumes I haven't already done this?

Because you come off like you're all talk. right on down to every cliche line you are delivering

Originally posted by getreadyalready I prefer boxing gyms and more traditional martial arts, but that doesn't mean I have never faced off against someone trained in jiu jitsu or muay thai. !

Thats like saying ah i played basketball with a guy once on the high school team i dont see why i cant hang with Carmelo Anthony or Jordan in his prime Understand?

Originally posted by getreadyalreadyOf course I've never been in a sanctioned UFC or MMA fight, and I never have the desire to until the subject comes up with me criticizing the sport and everyone claiming I just don't understand it. The fact is, I do understand it, they call it UFC, and it just isn't U, and the F is questionable, LOL!

How is it questionable?

Lets see two guys get in a competition with minimal rules. minimal protective gear and use the whole repertoire of standing and grappling arts and routinely get injured including being knocked out and having their limbs dislocated.

But yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah thats not the real stuff

From Glasgow in UK. had nothing to do as a kid so done Muay Thai shukokai and a bit of greco. They are protecting there own sport and rightly.

UFC dissers get a life. Most provable evolving full contact sport we have and you have a downer on it. It is a proven fact that it is less dangerous than amateur rugby. It encourages discipline and has taken the best out of multiple discipline sports and regulated it in a really good way.

Just a message to anyone who thinks they are tough and has skills that they have proven on the street. You wouldn't last in any ring. These people are not drunk. They are a not a lot weaker due to environmental conditions.

It looks easy but these guys are professional.

Many have no doubt said it before its all business and the Muay Thai industry is big bucks in Thailand, mma I guess would be a competitor so there bound to try to get it outlawed. The boxing big wigs tried the same thing here in the states years ago, they even had Senator John McCain try to pass a whole bunch of laws against it back then.

And even back then it was all about business, McCain was making truckloads of money off boxing because I think his family is one of the ones behind a big name beer, which was sponsoring boxing at the time. And the UFC back then were not one of the fortune 500 players and all there sponsors were small time, and as it was a up and coming sport. It threatened the popularity of boxing, and therefore of the money they were all making off boxing.

And so they ran a what u ma call it...A smear campaign. But now there all buddy buddy as they are all in on a piece of the pie mma is making with sales and its popularity. All about the $$$.

The same thing is likely going on in Thailand, just business.

In fact Muai Thai is more dangerous then mma, thats why you never see older fighters in Muai Thai. Most of them start really young like 5 years old, and by the time they reach 20 something there bodies are all banged up and used up, so they retire. In mma you see fighters of all kinds of ages.

The thing is most people have little insight into real fighting, they seen to many movies or are just plain ignorant.
In a real fight most fights no matter how good if the other guy is even remotely practiced in any grappling art it will go to the ground. I seen top level Muay Thai fighters get beat by dudes who can barely throw a punch because of that fact. Its all just a whole different thing, and you can not really compare them, apples and oranges.

I watch all kinds of combat sports, boxing, mma, kickboxing, muay thai, karate, and whatever else and it all just comes down to what you like, if you like boxing good for you, watch that and shut the hell up about it. Same can be said of any other martial art out there. This whole thing like I said is about business and not about the martial arts at all.

MMA is so far the closest thing to an actual real life fight out there within its rules. And a real life fight is not pretty or fancy, its brutal and unpredictable, and the less rules you have the more unpredictable the fights become. That's why most other martial arts through out time rules were added, to make the fights more aesthetics and more predictable as it eliminates a whole bunch of variables in how you can lose, and it is especially predictable for the bookies to make $$ off it.

Like I said people just watch to much movies, real life actual thing is exactly not like it is depicted in movies and shows. Even the martial art of sword fighting, in movies you see guys go back and forth with swords like a dance, in real life actual sword fighting as they did in samurai japan in the past in duels in ancient Europe. You would be lucky if the actual sword fight would last past 5 seconds and there was no fancy back and forth play at least not for long, really the whole ordeal is decided the first few seconds and long before the swords are drawn.

There is a comparison in mma with other combat sports as well, take away all the rules and heavy gloves and rounds. And you would be lucky if the actual fight would last past 5 minutes, and the first guy to make a mistake is usually the one who losses.

But anyways people just watch whatever you want, this whole thing is a mute point.