Anyone else miss Japan?

AstralPanda said:
I don't think I've ever felt anything like a Japanese event

I don't think martial arts is meant to be treated like a boxing event

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Ironically that one was held in a boxing ring(always been terrible for MMA btw but that's another topic).

Actually the Greeks had the right idea all along. Stadiums filled with excited people watching fights goes back a long way, and it is essentially how MMA started.

The shyness and clapping is cute. Go watch Japanese MMA if you want the soft side.
 
TheBulge said:
Ironically that one was held in a boxing ring(always been terrible for MMA btw but that's another topic).

Actually the Greeks had the right idea all along. Stadiums filled with excited people watching fights goes back a long way, and it is essentially how MMA started.

The shyness and clapping is cute. Go watch Japanese MMA if you want the soft side.
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Yeah I'm sure you were alive for Pankration in the ancient Olympics and miss it dearly.

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I can just picture you at events having a hissy fit when there's a takedown and wondering why Conor isn't on the card.
 
TheBulge said:
Ironically that one was held in a boxing ring(always been terrible for MMA btw but that's another topic).

Actually the Greeks had the right idea all along. Stadiums filled with excited people watching fights goes back a long way, and it is essentially how MMA started.

The shyness and clapping is cute. Go watch Japanese MMA if you want the soft side.
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U watch too many movies. You really think it was like what modern sporting events were? The stadium was for slaves/prisoners of war being publicly killed for entertainment. It was mostly used for theater and re-enactments, animal fights and a way to kill “criminals”.

Pankration is also not mma. It is as much as mma as ninjitsu is, just because it has striking and grappling doesnt make it mma.
 
Bearknuckle said:
U watch too many movies. You really think it was like what modern sporting events were? The stadium was for slaves/prisoners of war being publicly killed for entertainment. It was mostly used for theater and re-enactments, animal fights and a way to kill “criminals”.

Pankration is also not mma. It is as much as mma as ninjitsu is, just because it has striking and grappling doesnt make it mma.
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It doesn't matter that the stadium was also used for other "events". Pankration was the beginning of MMA whether you like it or not. We can go to more recent origins of Vale Tudo and once again, a large stadium of excited people watching two fighters.

My point was that the origins of MMA are closer to the Octagon fights we see today, not that pseudo pro wrestling they did in Pride FC inside a BOXING RING.

The latter is exactly how combat sports weren't "meant to be treated". The clapping is cute, very adorable(though I must laugh at the contrast of an ultra shy & introverted crowd while having an insanely over the top presentation, like that screaming lady idiot). But you don't do MMA inside a boxing ring. One of the most retarded things thought up in Combat sports history.
 
The crowds in Japan were much more appreciative of the arts than the trashy meatheads that frequent MMA events in the US. They would cheer when someone was setting up or going for a submission on the ground, not the Just Bleed sort of thing you get in the US where they boo the ground game. Overall, they were much more respectful.
 
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Lee_ said:
The crowds in Japan were much more appreciative of the arts than the trashy meatheads that frequent MMA events in the US. They would cheer when someone was setting up or going for a submission on the ground, not the Just Bleed sort of thing you get in the US where they boo the ground game. Overall, they were much more respectful.
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Fans are getting much better these days

Although peak iq and sheer volume was def Japan
 
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