does any1 here actually fight??

does any1 here actually fight??

i don't think you will find any, or many here. my group competes in a similar format of mixed styles full contact complete with takedowns, knees, etc. except it doesn't permit ground fighting. no big deal to me though. it keeps it's pace fast.


i think in pro mma we will, and are seeing another swing going back to strikers for a while instead of grapplers. it always goes in cricles.

I dont, but my gym has several pro MMA fighters and a couple of boxers in it.

Vulgar the Clown is a pro fighter, he doesn't post much anymore though....

i trained but never fought in any official mma bout.

i plan on training in about a year...anything i need to know?

i plan on training in about a year...anything i need to know?


u plan on training what? i mean mma is a sport venue where u combine various traditional martial arts. what are u planning on training because u can't train mma. u can train for mma. but mma is not an art. it is a sport which utilizes many arts.

actually the gym in my area has an mma class as well as bjj kick boxing and the other stuff..mixed martial arts is actually a class i wanna train to be a fighter

You guys are both right, J's comment and yours, however, while his alludes to you picks a style( karate, tae kwon do, wrestling, ju jit su), your comments talks about classes that is sort of a crash course (the teaching of ground and pounding , guards, and submissions).

I suggest you take a martial art like karate and take up wrestling or something that involves the ground that way your martial arts skills are up to par, then take "mma classes" to learn how those fights go. But please relized that u must dedicate years to your arts to become good, cuz taking solely "mma classes" (they even got them at tiger shulmans tisk tisk) will make you look like Kimbo Slice

Your best bet is to start as soon as you can. The quicker you start, the better.

If you cant, the best thing I recommend is doing road work and getting your cardio up. Dice's idea is good also, take another art in the meantime. I recommend boxing or wrestling, as they are usually cheap and those skills are important in MMA.

Your best bet is to start as soon as you can. The quicker you start, the better.

If you cant, the best thing I recommend is doing road work and getting your cardio up. Dice's idea is good also, take another art in the meantime. I recommend boxing or wrestling, as they are usually cheap and those skills are important in MMA.

Great advice for an aspiring fighter. I've fought in the streets for a long time, but until you get started on your Cardio/Wrestling/Boxing (Or whatever your style, I spend a lot of time at a Muay Thai gym) all at the same time, you won't go far in MMA. Just what he said, take a couple of long runs a day and work on your chosen art. Cardio is probably the best thing you can do for now.

I have fought in a few amateur bouts on the undercard of an event called Brooklyn Bricks. I'm still trying to save a little cash to move out West/to Florida, because of A) The weather, B) The people and C) There are more fighters. Like I said before though, I've been getting into fights in the street for almost all my life, but I started training all of the aspects of my MMA game at once when I was 18. On a personal note, I know that once you start training, you'll notice within a year that you'll rarely get involved with the drama on the streets that you used to. You will know damn well when you're ready to fight in an event.