Where are the fighters?

[tantryl]

It's funny, My junior year, I wrestled/sparred nearly every day with someone who outweighed me by 60 pounds(240 vs 180), and at the end of the year, I ended up getting my arm snapped.

That is funny.

[AngryBill]

If the difference between $25,000 a fight (UFC) and $2,000 a fight (regional, probably exaggerated) was one loss, then I would damn well make sure I was 100% coming in. It wouldn't be worth the risk to fight injured.

[Vanno]

As a heavy, I can say it is almost entirely useless sparring with someone way out of your weightclass. Running drills may be ok, but sparring just sucks for all involved. For the heavier person, there is a weird hesitation from going hard, and if you try to just work technique it is likely the smaller person is actually going pretty hard, so then you try to compensate with a bit more strength; then bad things happen.


Of course, some gyms are limited on sparring partners. So, what is a guy to do?

[Mephisto]

Its a shell avatar that andy accidentally git in . War Shell!!

I have no comeback for that. Clearly Shell is the only true warrior in MMA, he not only gets to legally cheat but gets the smacktalk win too, he's a real Captain America, gets juiced up to the gills, talks down the foreigners and also gets the UFC Shield!

[Spectre]

Not to be a total contrarian, but I wrestled my whole life, including for two years for a D-1 college program and I wrestled guys lighter than me every day. I am a heavyweight, and I compete at about 255 lbs and I wrestled our 197 pounders every day, and sometimes against our 184 pounders. And I never hurt one of my teammates a single time in 10 years of wrestling.

To be fair, It's a well known fact that college hwts are the biggest jokes in wrestling. Most are just plain soft, and get consistently whooped on by us 197lbers.

[RPD]

Big Nog, the only TRUE MMA fighter, EVER.

[HugeMMAFan]

Big Nog, the only TRUE MMA fighter, EVER.

Normally, you are a very rational person, but this screams of hyperbole. There isn't any true MMA fighter yet, and I believe it's still doubtful there will be. Is it possible? Yes, but most fighters tend towards one style at worst, or two styles at best.