JoeMoma
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As chess has a much greater variety of offensive and defensive moves than checkers, leading to a much more diverse and complicated strategies; mma has a much greater variety of offensive and defensive moves than any single fighting art, leading to more diverse and complicated strategies.I've seen brawls in baseball, football, and hockey. The occasional brawl does not make them illegitimate sports.
The novelty of the sport has lost its shine, and many fans who were drawn to the concept have started to notice that the 'mixed' martial arts actually feature a poor version of boxing, wrestling, judo, jujutsu, and kickboxing. Purists interested in a high level of competition in any of those arts won't find it in mma.
In MMA a fighter needs to be able to defend against everything. Boxing looks very different when the fighter has to defend against a take down and ground and pound. A black belt in jujutsu has to defend against getting knocked out. So mma becomes more of a chess match compared to the checker matches of any single fighting art.
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You’ve got it backwards.
If I have it backwards, you should be able to explain why..