Did anyone watch Saturday night fights MMA? What do you think?

[Dennis1971]

To me MMA is not shocking, its a great enjoyable sport to the trained athlete.
To me CRAZY is being 100lbs overweight, drinking, smoking, high-blood pressure, and eating at McDonalds.........lol
Dennis

[chloe0724]

I love to watch MMA. Cage fighting and the UFC are exciting.

[jerzey]

MMA, is huge now but its no worse then boxing

the UFC is by far the biggest MMA "brand"

I Got tired of MMA after 3 years I used to follow it now i care less

[momof5]

This is how some of these guys make a living.

Kimbo Slice had an interesting story as he was originally a homeless man who was offered some money to fight and look at him now. They said he was making at least 6 digits the other night. I didnt hear what six digits but I imagine its pretty substantial.

Arent there women who do this as well? I didnt see that part but on the MMA website it shows a couple of 'manly' females who must have fought before I turned on the TV.

[qwertysue]

The MMA fighters do a TON of training. Their cardio capabilities are beyond phenomenal. They do training and conditioning and know the right way to absorb some of the kicks and punches.

An untrained person would have to be nuts to climb into the octogan with a trained fighter--now that would be a death wish. However, just like boxing, these dudes spend hours and days and weeks and months in training.

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[Dennis1971]

You sound like my wife........lol. I guess we all view things very differently. I consider myself to be a very conservative person, and I watch very closely what my young children watch. Now I agree I wouldn't let my young children watch it either. After personally being involved with wrestling for several years, I think its a great sport. These guys fight in a organized arena, there is medical help there, and referee's watching over it all. This is how some of these guys make a living. When the fight is over they shake hands and congratulate each other, no hard feelings. In a mans world, the pecking order is pretty quickly decided.
In my opinion, watching something like Survivor is worse then MMA. The participants continually are deceitful, they are continually picking on the weakest or the one that gets on everybody nerves. When your watching that, its hard to explain to your children why the honest person doesn't win. I just can't stand to sit there and watch something like this, people whining and conniving. I understand its a game, but still honesty is not rewarded.
Men and women are different and think totally different...lol. Just for me it doesn't bother seeing two men duke it out, then shake hands afterwords, rather than to see people lieing, stealing, cheating, being dishonest, and then get rewarded for it.
Thats just my 2 cents! Have a great day!
Dennis

[momof5]

I just read that about MMA a few minutes ago. I google everything

Its hard to believe though after having watched it. Then again that study really doesnt have a lot of striking sports to compare it to. Boxing is the only one I can think of.

Just watching the news at night you hear about violent fights that result in death. For someone who knows nothing about this 'style' of fighting it really just looked like violent blows to the brain and kidneys.
I mean how can being punched with a fist over and over and over again in the head be okay?

[laz]

A study by Johns Hopkins University concluded, "the overall injury rate [excluding injury to the brain] in MMA competitions is now similar to other combat sports [involving striking], including boxing. Knockout rates are lower in MMA competitions than in boxing. This suggests a reduced risk of traumatic brain injury in MMA competitions when compared to other events involving striking."[31] (from wikipedia)

[momof5]

I was just flipping through the stations Saturday and stopped on the fight. I do NOT have cable so this was just one of the regular stations.
I was horrified as I watched because it was so brutal. Of course I continued to watch because I wasnt convinced it was 'real' blood etc.
Sure enough its real. They call it MMA mixed martial arts. I thought it was hyped like wrestling yet way more gorey than boxing. I figured that someone was going to die!
My 12 year old had the tv on in the living room and was yelling to me " did you see that Mom?" I made him shut it off!

I know there are probably huge differences in opinion on this but mine as a mother and one who struggles to teach my boys that violence is not glamorous and definately not cool, thinks this garbage should go back 'underground' as they say.

Whats next? Real life death matches because this is really close!