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Is UFC bad for mma or the sport?
13 years ago
-]. This is probably the most Mixed emotion and opinion topic I feel I've ever wrote.
So guys, I was looking more at this OneFC, I didn't realise they were having the ol'skool rules and trying to bring mma back to it's roots with using all elbow strikes, soccer kicks and stomps. I was like rah, someone's bringing PrideFC back, It was a long time since I saw fights like that so I decided to watch a little on youtube but then I saw a comment that made me think a little.
Random guy on Youtube wrote:It would be great if the UFC would allow this shit. We might see fights ending differently and new champs. Oh well, sometimes what's good for the sport isn't as entertaining as what actually is the sport.
The bold part makes me think a bit, Is mma really mma at the mo? I remember when the sport/style was called Vale tudo which meant "anything goes" these days, you just can't call it that cause of the rules mma has put it. Is there any possiblity that these rules are ruining mma for what it is or what it's supposed to be? I know yes these rules was put to make it legalized in more countries and more known but in doing that, has mma lost it's theme on what it's supposed to be? Sometimes it's based on what do you want to see from MMA, either if they want to see violence like 2 men bleeding like fuck/2 guys fighting to critical finish just like in movies, 2 sportsmen compete or watching it cause they respect martial arts as used to compete and not for violence. But I've read and watched Martial artists talk about how they are trained to Kill and I wonder are they feeling Martial arts is disrespected by these rules of mma cause the fighters who are trained to kill are limiting their skills to fight to UFC today's standards. Or do martial artists hate the ol skool rules cause it make mma look like human cockfighting and think stamping and soccer kicks is NOT martial arts? hard situation. I bet people think whoever loves the ol-skool rules are guys who has some sort of mental issues or have blood fetish psychopathic problems, do you really think that's what people who love ol skool rules love it for seriously?
I will admit I do miss those ol skool days with soccer kicks and stomping but as much as I would want that and how much I like it, I want these fighters to go home to their familes and I want them healthly next day so I can't be selfish. I actually wished when they are battered like this,:
http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/.....garResized.png
they heal next day. I wished when Nog's arm broke, I wished he healed next day. I ain't gonna lie that's selfish cause it's just me wanting entertainment over people's lives.
This is exactly what the entertainment factor in Real Steel was about. People wanted the brutalness of of boxing and Martial arts to the max but they didn't want deaths so it was build the robots and make them kill each other. Makes sense doesn't it? that's why I love the film so much. It's also what inspires me to work on Zapedy cause when it's animation, you can go far over the line hehe.
And cause of that, sometimes I wonder if these are what we'll be seeing in the cage one day?:
http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/...../UFCrobots.jpg
They do seem to be adding more rules in the big mma organisations and with the way they're going, It wouldn't surprise me (especially since they're ALREADY working on boxing robots that has moves with human motions) I can see OneFC no where near getting bigger than UFC cause it'll be banned in more places, if they want more money, they need to compromise their rules but OneFC seems like they're gonna stick to their guns and do it the way they want to do it. I respect people like that, doing it for what they think it should be and not the money. But if OneFC fights to stay the way they want, is that a bad thing? There's so much different emotions and opinions I'm feeling about this, what do you think? Do you think the rules are destroying the name of mma? Do you think mma should be an event and not a sport? .[-
So guys, I was looking more at this OneFC, I didn't realise they were having the ol'skool rules and trying to bring mma back to it's roots with using all elbow strikes, soccer kicks and stomps. I was like rah, someone's bringing PrideFC back, It was a long time since I saw fights like that so I decided to watch a little on youtube but then I saw a comment that made me think a little.
Random guy on Youtube wrote:It would be great if the UFC would allow this shit. We might see fights ending differently and new champs. Oh well, sometimes what's good for the sport isn't as entertaining as what actually is the sport.
The bold part makes me think a bit, Is mma really mma at the mo? I remember when the sport/style was called Vale tudo which meant "anything goes" these days, you just can't call it that cause of the rules mma has put it. Is there any possiblity that these rules are ruining mma for what it is or what it's supposed to be? I know yes these rules was put to make it legalized in more countries and more known but in doing that, has mma lost it's theme on what it's supposed to be? Sometimes it's based on what do you want to see from MMA, either if they want to see violence like 2 men bleeding like fuck/2 guys fighting to critical finish just like in movies, 2 sportsmen compete or watching it cause they respect martial arts as used to compete and not for violence. But I've read and watched Martial artists talk about how they are trained to Kill and I wonder are they feeling Martial arts is disrespected by these rules of mma cause the fighters who are trained to kill are limiting their skills to fight to UFC today's standards. Or do martial artists hate the ol skool rules cause it make mma look like human cockfighting and think stamping and soccer kicks is NOT martial arts? hard situation. I bet people think whoever loves the ol-skool rules are guys who has some sort of mental issues or have blood fetish psychopathic problems, do you really think that's what people who love ol skool rules love it for seriously?
I will admit I do miss those ol skool days with soccer kicks and stomping but as much as I would want that and how much I like it, I want these fighters to go home to their familes and I want them healthly next day so I can't be selfish. I actually wished when they are battered like this,:
http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/.....garResized.png
they heal next day. I wished when Nog's arm broke, I wished he healed next day. I ain't gonna lie that's selfish cause it's just me wanting entertainment over people's lives.
This is exactly what the entertainment factor in Real Steel was about. People wanted the brutalness of of boxing and Martial arts to the max but they didn't want deaths so it was build the robots and make them kill each other. Makes sense doesn't it? that's why I love the film so much. It's also what inspires me to work on Zapedy cause when it's animation, you can go far over the line hehe.
And cause of that, sometimes I wonder if these are what we'll be seeing in the cage one day?:
http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/...../UFCrobots.jpg
They do seem to be adding more rules in the big mma organisations and with the way they're going, It wouldn't surprise me (especially since they're ALREADY working on boxing robots that has moves with human motions) I can see OneFC no where near getting bigger than UFC cause it'll be banned in more places, if they want more money, they need to compromise their rules but OneFC seems like they're gonna stick to their guns and do it the way they want to do it. I respect people like that, doing it for what they think it should be and not the money. But if OneFC fights to stay the way they want, is that a bad thing? There's so much different emotions and opinions I'm feeling about this, what do you think? Do you think the rules are destroying the name of mma? Do you think mma should be an event and not a sport? .[-
With that said, I think two robots going at it can be just as interesting at times...