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.
War is something the armed forces see and talk about on the daily, and they put themselves through a good ordeal in order to train their bodies and minds for what may lie ahead on the battlegrounds of the world.
However, comparing something like war to MMA, which only feel like war but is merely just a competitive sport that challenges a person physically and mentally, is a trend that is fading out at a rapid rate. While MMA fighters clearly put themselves through some serious training in order to stay ready physically and mentally inside of a fight, they’re in MMA competition as opposed to armed combat, and, if anything, MMA is at war with those in the world that maintain that it cannot be expected to last long as a legitimate sport.
To put a bottom line on it, MMA and war will never be one in the same, no matter how many times we try to draw comparisons between the two. Cage fights might be fought like wars, but they don’t have the same long-term consequences as wars, so it seems funny to try and connect the two.
Trust the cliche if you so choose, but allow this writer to leave you with this piece and send this issue to the cemetery with a left head kick and the reminder that 2012 has many MMA classics in store, but none of them should be expected to take lives as much as they can be predicted as possibly changing lives in the MMA world and the landscape of MMA as we know it.
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