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^ yeah, that is why I don't bring it up. I just have way to much knowledge about something that most guys have seen a handful of times in their lives. I watch MMA pretty much every single day. I train almost every single day. I am a huge mma nerd. I can't have a conversation with a "normie" about mma. It is nothing to be proud of, it is a a huge time suck... It is a lonely existence, because without a forum, I am lost, because no one knows as much about MMA as me except you fuckin turds.Leave a comment:
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I like it when I'm talking to a supposed MMA fan and rattle off a list of top fighters like Jon Jones or Frankie Edgar--guys who are pretty much big in MMA but not in pop culture--and they don't know who the fuck I'm talking about.
Also, I ran into some people in real life who thought Kimbo was going to own all.
And then I knew someone personally who thought that Brock might go down as the greatest MMA fighter of all time.Leave a comment:
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I love the conversations that go something like "Oh you watch UFC too? I love UFC and watch it all the time. Chuck is still champ, right?"Leave a comment:
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It is not that I think people won't accept it, no one cares. It is more that I don't want to have to answer questions non-stop... and when 99% of the world hears gracie jiu jitsu, they think of either tae kwon do, and picture me going Cosmo Kramer on a bunch of kids (no offense X) or stomping on a guy's head in a cage. And I don't want to have to explain it and then be "that guy" all the time. Anytime I have talked about wrestling or jj... I immediately become the guy that could kill you with his bare hands or the guy that thinks he can kill you with his bare hands. It just isn't worth it.
As for watching mma, I don't go out of my way to avoid it, but I don't bring it up either. Everyone on this site is probably incapable of having a normal conversation about mma with a casual fan. We all just know too much about it... it is annoying. That is why forums were created, so people of equal dork-i-tude can discuss shit no one else cares about.
I think people would describe me as fairly eccentric, and it is not unusual in my circles either.Last edited by MMA_scientist; 01-20-2011, 07:46 PM.Leave a comment:
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Yeah, it's the older, "MMA is barbaric and dangerous. Boxing? - Now that's a good clean sport!" guys that get to me. IMO, old (white) dudes like this are why MMA has a hard time getting sanctioned in some places.
I can't get any of my friends to watch MMA. Last I checked, the only one who had any prior familiarity with it at all was because he had watched a couple of TUF episodes as he was flipping channels. And somehow he had heard of Anderson Silva.
Though I might keep it down if I were interviewing for a new job, I don't generally try to hide my MMA watching (or even gambling) hobby. In academia at least, people accept a fair amount of eccentricity.Leave a comment:
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You may be onto something about older folks Scientist, because I find that younger folks--at least younger males--pretty much universally have at least heard of the shit. Even if they haven't heard the term MMA, if you clarify it by saying, "you know, like the UFC," they go, "oh, yeah yeah yeah." Plenty of girls I've talked to at least have seen it in passing on TV, too.
As for my crew--of which there are only a few--my buddy Kris is my age and into MMA, my buddy Brian used to be into it and still watches it occasionally, and my friend Anna used to watch it regularly but now has kind of drifted away. So I have no close friends at the present time who are NOT familiar with MMA, but I have in the past, so it can happen. Even then most of them at least knew what it was.
When I used to work at Unisys and was stuck in a room in a call center with 60 other people I would hear other guys bring it up after events and shit, too.Leave a comment:
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