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MMA may someday be regulated by FIDE



At the current rate, MMA is trending away from being a violent combat sport and may someday qualify for being under the authority of FIDE.

The reason it's happening is the same reason a frog will slowly boil to death in a heated pot instead of jumping out, if you raise the temperature slowly enough over time.

(yeah, that metaphor probably isn't true, but it fits here).

Every year we (as fans) have tolerated the slow but incremental movement towards the "Greg Jackson gameplan" happening in more and more fights.

To put this another way, if the UFC had handed us crap like Holm vs Randamie, Woodley vs. Wonderboy, Rory vs. Ellenberger or Diaz vs. Condit (and a gazillion other snore-fests) 10 or 15 years ago, we'd have rejected it back then because the 'shock' would have been too much for us to accept.

However, because the transition from violent fights (ala Chuck Liddell) to panzy ass chess matches has happened so slowly over so many years, the fan base has simply accepted it as the "new norm".

Here's what I propose:

When even the fans can decipher the obvious intent of a clinch artist who's wasting time on purpose against the cage to try and steal a round, then judges should be permitted to deduct a full point from those fighters just like they do in Olympic Judo for passivity.

That would discourage behavior which has no purpose other than stalling and stealing a round.

The Gracie family didn't want this panzy stuff. They started this experiment to simulate real fighting.

Back before the 1990's happened, Karate black belts were thought of as bad asses.

However, after Fred Ettish got his ass kicked while looking like a guy who's never thrown a punch, now everybody realizes that Karate black belts are jokes when it comes to real fighting.

That's what the UFC was created for, to find the truth.

Even the refs are falling into the trap of being politically correct.

In other words, even in RARE cases where we get 2 guys who actually want to fight and bleed, we get DENIED AGAIN because the refs are stopping things way too early and depriving the fans of the bloodshed for which they have paid.

Travis Browne did not get stopped too late, it was a perfect stoppage, even early. It got stopped long before a school yard fight would have been stopped. I want to see that in every fight.

I don't want fighters to be hurt any more than necessary, but I want my money's worth and if that means he's gotta be seriously hurt then I can live with that.

I've paid to see bloodshed and to be entertained. If I wanted to see "chess" I'd watch old tapes of Kasparov and Fischer.

More skydivers die each year than the number of MMA deaths over the last 20 years. More people die from coconuts falling on their heads each year than from MMA fighting, that's a fact. Look it up.

I harken back to the old days when violence was the norm in MMA.

Now "chess" is the norm and FIDE may someday be asked to regulate MMA because of that.

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