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wtf is it with these elitest attitudes? if you don't like it does it mean that it sucks? no. if you don't like the ground aspect of mma, then you don't know mma and thus your opinion of mma is worth ZERO. just like a person who doesn't care for boxing having an opinion on boxing. if you don't like it, don't watch it, PERIOD. no one has a gun to your head.
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Jack of all trades master of none. There are two problems with MMA.
The first is that in order to compete with your peers you have to cross train in many martial arts, which gives you less time to perfect one skill, and only makes you a better all-round fighter, but not proficient in any one technique. This makes the overall-quality in the majority of fights atrocious because you have multiple people learning Muay Thai, BBJ, A bit of Boxing, wrestling and other techniques, and not being good at any of them. Whereas with boxing you have a limited range of skills for which you spend your lifetime perfecting, making a much better quality fighter that mastered a specific discipline that he understands inside out. MMA fighters usually don't get into MMA until they're in there early 20's/late teens(if that) which gives them less time to mold themselves into great fighters; unlike boxers who begin training usually at 8-9 years old.
Secondly, its unexciting. There is a reason (real) wrestling isn't a major sport in America. MMA prides itself on BJJ but to the casual fan, it just seems like people rolling around on the mat; and while that requires great technique and athleticism, it isn't as overt as boxing or muay thai, where the damage is easy to behold. Your rarely going to see blood when watching someone execute an armbar, or hear the thunderous thud of a fist connecting to the side of jaw, instead you just see two men exhausting themselves trying to make the other forfeit. I'd rather watch paint dry.
Sorry MMA, but Unless you modify the rules to where there is as little mathugging as possible, you'll never be a serious sport in AmericaComment
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