Discussion » Questions » Sports » I know it's just my opinion, but I think I may be the only one who finds Mixed Martial Arts just a violent beat-each-other-to-a-pulp sport?
WelbyQuentin

I know it's just my opinion, but I think I may be the only one who finds Mixed Martial Arts just a violent beat-each-other-to-a-pulp sport?

I was at a restaurant with friends yesterday and the sport was on a TV. I was literally shocked and had to keep looking away. And I wanted to run in and save the bleeding guy being sat on and punched hard repeatedly.

No doubt, though, that every guy I saw seemed to be in great physical shape.

This image represents well what I saw.

Image result for mixed martial arts

Posted - August 8, 2018
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  • 1502
    It’s a brutal sport. I enjoy watching it. It definitely isn’t for everyone. The refs stop the fights before too much damage is done. If a fighter isn’t defending/protecting himself/herself the ref stops the fight. To my knowledge the amount of injuries and consussions are much lower than sports like football. This post was edited by Rizz at August 9, 2018 7:05 PM MDT
      August 8, 2018 11:35 AM MDT
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  • 23664
    Yes, what you mention that is what I saw - - the bleeding guy on the bottom looked literally dazed-out-of-his mind and the other guy just kept smashing him until the ref stopped it.
    I've read on the site here what you've posted about your career and I assume you're a much tougher and stronger guy than I.
    I can't get the images out of my head  -- I guess it's time for me to be OK with myself that the sport is not for me.
    Yes, and I do know that females do this sport, too -- I just haven't seen them. I should've added females into my question's wording.
      August 8, 2018 11:41 AM MDT
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  • 1502
    We’re all tough and strong in our own way. 16 years working in a prison has hardened me. I wasn’t squeamish to begin with, but violence, blood, and gore don’t faze me at all these days. I’ve seen too much and have been in the middle of breaking up violent scuffles. 
      August 8, 2018 11:44 AM MDT
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  • 23664
    I can't imagine. Really. I admire you.
    I do wish you had been there in a TV Land and had stopped this particular fight way before the ref did.
    :)

    Ha! But you would have probably liked being up close to the action, ha!
    :)
    Thanks for adding more to your answer. (And, yeah, I agree - - we are all tough and strong in our own ways.)
      August 8, 2018 11:48 AM MDT
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  • 23664
    I hope I didn't go too far with my humour about your enjoying being close to the action in my other comment. No harm was intended.
      August 8, 2018 12:21 PM MDT
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  • 1502
    Humor never goes to far with me. I can’t be offended. 
      August 8, 2018 12:28 PM MDT
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  • 23664
    Thanks Rizz.
    :)
      August 8, 2018 12:37 PM MDT
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  • 23664
    I just saw your addition about football. Thanks.

    I think it's the idea of two guys/women going after each other to solely beat terribly hard on each other. It just seems like they're beating each other up. That's what it looks like to me and I get upset. That guy on the bottom in the picture I posted -- the guy I saw on TV just looked completely dazed and bloody, too, and I felt sorry and wanted him to be OK. And he didn't look OK.
    I don't know.
    :)


    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at August 9, 2018 7:06 PM MDT
      August 8, 2018 5:13 PM MDT
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  • I too, am a fan of combat sports. Bare knuckle boxing has been sanctioned in the state of Wyoming. A couple of months ago, they held a very successful event in Cheyenne. More to come in September. We'll see how it all plays out.
      August 8, 2018 5:14 PM MDT
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  • "I think that there are some of them that do it for the money."
      August 8, 2018 11:36 AM MDT
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  • 23664
    I don't know. Just too upsetting for me, even knowing that.
      August 8, 2018 11:42 AM MDT
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  • Well, unlike the Gladiators of Rome ... they are in there by choice.
      August 8, 2018 11:45 AM MDT
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  • 23664
    Excellent point. But sad, too - - about Rome, that is. This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at August 9, 2018 7:06 PM MDT
      August 8, 2018 11:48 AM MDT
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  • 44660
    LOTS of money.
      August 8, 2018 1:11 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    This is not something I can watch.  The only boxer I enjoyed watching was Ali.
      August 8, 2018 12:53 PM MDT
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  • 23664
    From the little I've seen, this is way more brutal than boxing to me; though I'm not much of a fan of boxing, either.
    :)
      August 8, 2018 2:21 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    It is very much more brutal than boxing and the reason I like Ali was because he never beat the living daylights out of his opponents.  It was never a bloody mess.
      August 8, 2018 9:37 PM MDT
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  • 23664
    Thanks. I wouldn't have known. I didn't watch him regularly or anything. 
    :)
      August 9, 2018 5:56 AM MDT
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  • 44660
    Of course it is. That's why people watch it.
      August 8, 2018 1:12 PM MDT
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  • 23664
    Ug. (That'd be People-Minus-One.)
    :)
    But you probably are right.
    :)
      August 8, 2018 2:23 PM MDT
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  • I've never cared for sports where opponents brutalize each other.  What I don't get is how it's legal to get paid to pound each other to a pulp where it would normally be assault and jail/prison time.
      August 8, 2018 1:19 PM MDT
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  • 23664
    I "get" very little of it, too. I can see some of the in's-and-out's people are saying - - I just know I got really upset emotionally watching it.
    :)


    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at August 10, 2018 2:23 AM MDT
      August 8, 2018 2:23 PM MDT
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  • 2219
    I thought that was the idea. 
      August 8, 2018 2:46 PM MDT
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  • 23664
    No wonder, then, that I avoid watching it.
    :)
      August 8, 2018 5:08 PM MDT
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