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The Curious Case of Mathias1.

Hey Maniacs! I'm an MMAF poster and I've come to seek your help.

I don't know when, or why, but some time ago, a poster named mathias1 migrated from Mania to MMAF. He's mostly found on Jon Jones related articles, but he wanders all over the site. His favourite timepass is engaging in meaningless arguments and refusing to accept being wrong at all costs. He makes his fair share of great, insightful posts, and when he's not confronted, he displays the ability of using logic, but he quickly loses it once his points are challenged.

For instance, after Aldo-Holloway, he made a great point about MMA fights turning out to be B-level kickboxing level fights because fighters underestimate grappling, but when I replied saying how pure grappling MMA matches also look a lot worse than Abu Dhabi BJJ and used Spicely-Shoeface fight from the same card as an example, things turned to worse. He responded by saying grappling is a lot more than just Rolling they did. I asked him to say one thing Aldo could have done to change the outcome (obviously grappling related because that was the topic) and he said he should have used leg kicks and continued to defend that point adamantly, ingoring everything he said before.

There was also this discussion he had with another poster about Strikeforce vs UFC. He said SF was way better and the other poster said they only had HW and chicks. Matty posted like 15 comments just comparing Strikeforce HWs to those of UFC, even though that meant he was proving the other poster right because his premise that SF's WW and MW were also better were shut down quickly.

Now, why I'm writing this? Recently, one poster told him nobody likes him and his behaviour is why he was ran out of Mania in the first place. I've also seen him suddenly appear and post "Does that place still exist?" whenever someone mentions Mania. I wondered if you could tell me why he is like this. He seems like a smart guy at times, but he's just intolerable with his smugness and stupid comebacks when he's made a fool out of. Did you bully him here? Was he like that always or did he change at some point?

Any piece of advice on how to remedy the 'mathas situation', or at least reduce it's effects would be welcome, if you can help in any way possible, me, and many MMAF posters would be very thankful. If you don't know who I'm talking about, or just want to help in fear of him returning, I understand and apoligize for wasting your time.

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