MMA: It's Time to End War Comparisons in Fighting
Seriously, there's a limit to how far we all should go just to talk about awesome fights, so let's cut the "war" talk out already.
We easily have the ability to tell others to not be surprised if one of two men involved in a fight cuts the other open, just as we all have the ability to say a fight will be a back-and-forth affair or that a fight might be a barn-burner, or even that a fight will be something from out of a video game and a bout that ranks among the the most legendary bouts in the history of the sport.
We have the ability to describe the bout in any way possible, and yet we decide to play the "war" card.
So a cage fight is war, eh?
Y'all know what a war is, yes?
Well, Tim Kennedy might be able to shine a better light on that, as would Brian Stann as far as the mental aspect of it all, but what relevance does the grind of preparing for a sanctioned MMA bout have to the mind-scarring reality of what a war is?
Sure, the action can be explosive and the offensive attack of a fighter can cause serious damage in more ways that one, with the damage sometimes resulting in something more serious than what a simple surgery could fix, but the only bullets that get fired in MMA are the verbal bullets fired back and forth between fighters in order to hype up their fights.
Also, consider that the trash-talk is sometimes more brutal than the actual fight itself, whereas the heat of war often is too graphic to even condense into words or an article.
Simply put, war's something that a group of men and women experience every day around the world so that people like you and I can even talk about mixed martial arts....
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Comment by John Wootton on February 7, 2012 at 1:41pm -
it's not modern warfare that is suggested when comparing the competition to war but the wars where the main weapons were steel or hand. But I do not detract from the warriors of today either.
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