I don’t actually watch UFC. It just seems a bit too brutal for my liking. I am interested in it, but after watching a few fights, I thought “enough is enough” and just stopped watching.
It is however the fastest rising sport in the world, I think, so credit due where credit’s due. But maybe this popularity just displays our lust for blood and maybe we’re yearning for the days of attending gladiator fights. I reckon being a UFC fighter is like being a modern day gladiator. But hey, that’s just my opinion.
Don’t get me wrong though, I’m not against it by any means. I love martial arts, fighting and competition. Just seems too brutal though, all that blood smothered across the ring.
[quote=Kraik;2263322]I don’t actually watch UFC. It just seems a bit too brutal for my liking. I am interested in it, but after watching a few fights, I thought “enough is enough” and just stopped watching.
It is however the fastest rising sport in the world, I think, so credit due where credit’s due. But maybe this popularity just displays our lust for blood and maybe we’re yearning for the days of attending gladiator fights. I reckon being a UFC fighter is like being a modern day gladiator. But hey, that’s just my opinion.
Don’t get me wrong though, I’m not against it by any means. I love martial arts, fighting and competition. Just seems too brutal though, all that blood smothered across the ring.
What about you, do you not watch UFC?[/quote]
I dont watch it because of alot of reasons but here are some
Its often on at times im busy
I don’t like the idea or say culture of “UFC”
I much prefer’d PrideFC and UFC just doesnt match up
The gladiator thing is a bit of a strech. Slaves being forced to fight often to the death in a collesium does not quite equate to two profesional athletes competing in a sactioned fight with rules and regulations.
Maybe you caught a couple of the more bloody fights cos blood being all over the ring isnt really that common. End of the day its a combat sport blood and injurys are to be expected, its like sparing you cant expect to get good at fighting if you dont take a couple of hits in sparing. Ive ended up with bused lips and bleeding noses during sparring but that doesnt make it brutal, just means i got caught.
I watch it sometimes to keep up with my favorite fighters and see good fights. No it’s not too brutal or bloodlusty (hur hur), it’s what actual fighting looks like. Their brand image however is annoying and imo counter productive to the future growth of the sport. Blood is what happens when people fight, welcome to the real world theres no Easter Bunny and Santa Claus is really Lebell trying to molest you.
I don’t watch the UFC, or MMA fights in general, or even boxing, but not because I disapprove or anything; I fully support and approve of the right of trained and willing fighters to beat the shit out of each other for money.
It’s just that I’m not interesting in merely watching. Unless it’s my kicks smashing into their thighs, their knuckles almost breaking my nose, and my desperate “blarg” as I get wrestled to the ground then have my limbs bent all funny, I can’t seem to keep interest for more than fourty seconds. Exceptions being, of course, for if the fight I’d be watching would be one with the coach or the other skilled guys at my gym in it.
It’s not that I do or dont watch, but I follow fighters, not orgs. SO if a fighter I like happens to be ina UFC match and someone is buying it, I’ll watch. But I dont go out of my way to tune into a UFC just because it’s on. Plus the UFCs… um… culture is somewhat of a turn off.
Kraik you mentioned on your Throwdown thread that you liked ‘hard’ styles and would be prepared to spar with MMA rules at the London TD. I thought that tevelvised MMA would be your thing.