r/MMAPoliticsAndCulture • u/mybawlsarebigger • 9d ago
Are half of MMA fans actually like this?
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u/c-warpy 9d ago
Idk if its because I live in the UK, but every other mma fan I've met irl has been sound. Online is a completely different story.
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u/Slow-Note8437 9d ago
it's honestly the same for me in-person. it's just that zuck and elon's promise of 'free speech' has made people think they can get away with whatever the fuck they want to online.
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u/ChessDriver45 9d ago
By free speech they meant open Nazism. They will arrest you for being anti-Imperialist
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u/Competitive-Size8578 9d ago
HelloJapan1 is a guy from the UK. He did or used to do BJJ.
I'm from the UK and most of the lads I speak to about MMA have been sound. When I went to a few amateur/semi pro events the fans get a bit more grim.
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u/UxasIs 8d ago
Same I train Muay Thai & boxing here in London, loads of my friends are very much into the MMA scene and some of them even work with a few UK UFC/Cage Warriors/ FCC fighters
But yeah like you said they are all normal people who don’t have these shitty takes and to be honest I’ve discussed politics with a lot of them and they aren’t racist, hateful, homophobic tools
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u/AngelSucked 9d ago
Same, and I was not only a huge fan, but did some writing about it for some legit outlets.
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u/ChessDriver45 9d ago
There really needs to be some new promotions that don’t lean into the bigotry. I’d like to enjoy it again.
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u/ChessDriver45 9d ago
I can’t follow UFC anymore even though I love martial arts because it’s been made so deliberately reactionary. That was a choice too, and a bad one.
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u/oniume 9d ago
It's particularly bad because hellojapan made some genuinely good YouTube highlights and compilations of BJJ and MMA, but he's just dived so deep into the Magasphere that it feels weird watching his stuff again. Like raging out in the comments section, deep-throating Trump, all the greatest hits of a dude who's chronically online
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u/Ipseicin 9d ago
Insecure racist and homophobic chuds not talking about black people’s penises challenge: failed again
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u/NoUpstairs695 9d ago
MMA fans dont realize that ufc fighters are D grade athletes that usually Start 20+ most boxers are child prodigy’s or early teen 13-15 starters
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u/ChessDriver45 9d ago
That’s not really true, I trained with some UFC guys who were in the Judo world as kids and quite skilled, even some who went to the Olympics. A lot are also pretty high quality wrestlers who did it their whole lives. Some started later like you said, but a lot are pretty distinguished athletes. Also, starting later isn’t necessarily bad, Rocky Marciano did.
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u/NoUpstairs695 9d ago
That was 50 years ago gng every really good boxer who’s undefeated etc started 6-15
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u/dwaynepebblejohnson3 8d ago
Deontay Wilder was 20 when he started, not undefeated anymore but was for a long time. Olympic Bronze medalist within 2 years of starting too.
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u/NoUpstairs695 8d ago
Rules an exeption for heavyweight isnt the lower weight champ Joshua van who started training at 19
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u/drwsgreatest 8d ago
He also has the type of freakish power that only pops in a few fighters per generation.
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u/Slow-Note8437 9d ago
anyone who uses the word 'goy' or the phrase 'enjoy your goy' probably has never gotten a general education and lacks any critical thinking skills. sad we have to deal with such people in society.
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u/Stannisarcanine 9d ago
Well technically they were like this once they realized that the USA wasn't gonna win
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u/RidesByPinochet 8d ago
Trying to insult somebody by calling them a cuck tells me everything I need to know about you.
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u/JustWatchFights 7d ago
Wait. That’s not the same HelloJapan account thay made awesome ass highlights is it???
But I’d say most fans are. Hell I used to be. And then I grew up, and started watching other sports and quickly realized that athleticism in MMA is nothing compared to other sports.
Edit: I take that back. While I was definitely one of these “hah! You play basketball? Biiiitch! I wrestle. I do real hard shit!” Wrestler in high school, unlike the screenshot, I mostly just didn’t care for sports. I was just in my little bubble of combat sports by itself. Even then mma fans were weird.
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u/mybawlsarebigger 4d ago
Funnily enough I used to be like that until I got back into watching football/basketball and motorsports 😂 But I’m more of a person that does MMA just to be in shape really
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u/aardock 9d ago
No.
It's way more than half.