UFC on Versus 3 March 3rd

[Svino]

The older guys that I know that like boxing basically see MMA as a glorified toughman contest. Thety are like Bob Arum, they think grappling is gay and uncivilized, like a bunch of wild brazilians speaking pig latin going Baraka on guys or a bunch of thunderlips' using their size to and wrasslin to cheat...

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.

[SPX]

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.

Yeah, me either. Shit, I tell everybody proudly.

[MMA_scientist]

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.

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.

[zY|]

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?"

[SPX]

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.

[MMA_scientist]

^ 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.

[poopoo333]

^^I love when people talk like Kimbo is an awesome striker and is just not good on the ground.

[SPX]

^^I love when people talk like Kimbo is an awesome striker and is just not good on the ground.

LOL

I was really looking forward to his boxing debut.

Then again, in a way I was not. Because truth be told I am a Kimbo fan. He seems like a cool guy. I want to see him succeed and I know that, unless he fights guys who are appropriately not that great (and where's the money in that?) then he will lose, regardless of whether it's MMA or boxing.

[poopoo333]

I am willing to bet Kimbo is not a "cool guy". Don't let TUF fool you. He was a pretender on that show.

[SPX]

I really disagree.

Even discounting TUF, everyone who has worked with him personally says that he was a very genuine, humble, down-to-earth person.

[MMA_scientist]

^ Not what I have heard guys saying. Bas says he was lazy and wouldn't listen. His new trainers say he was lazy and wouldn't listen and quit. He beat up homeless guys for the amusement of others and a few bucks. Actually the only guys I heard say he was cool and down to earth were his fellow TUFmates. Nice job keeping it together for a whole 6 weeks.

I got no beef with Kimbo, but I would venture that he is a piece of shit as a human being.

[SPX]

Scientist, you have a negative attitude.

[Luke]

Scientist, you have a negative attitude.

LOL

[MMA_scientist]

Scientist, you have a negative attitude.

I really do. But the funny thing is that I am pretty happy-go-lucky... I never get pissed IRL and I am almost always in a good mood. I think it is because I rant so much that there is nothing bottled up to make me sad.

Maybe Kimbo turned his life around...

But to me, beating the shit out of a homeless crackhead is pretty damn low. So he would have to have come to Jesus pretty seriously for me to think he is reformed. He has some money now, so he is probably just staying out of trouble.

[Luke]

I really do. But the funny thing is that I am pretty happy-go-lucky... I never get pissed IRL and I am almost always in a good mood. I think it is because I rant so much that there is nothing bottled up to make me sad.

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Funny .......Im the same way . If I do get mad its for a very short period of time then I'm good to go