Anyone else miss Japan?

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So I got back from Tokyo last Saturday night so a week ago from now... and I can say, yes I do miss Japan.
 
AstralPanda said:
Respect on that one bud

How was it?
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Dude it was amazing, went with my wife and daughter we hit up Osaka Kyoto and Tokyo over 11 days.

The temples are cool, shopping is fun, food is amazing. I would definitely recommend.
 
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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Depends

Some styles are better suited to a ring

The diaz bros are a good example imo
 
TheBulge said:
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.
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Pankration was not the beginning of mma. It had grappling and striking, but it didn’t MIX any different martial arts.

the mixing of all styles of martial arts was always the original intent of the gracies, and what real mma is built around.

As far as the ring stuff goes i agree, its just not suited for free fighting. A cage is much better and gives mma its own identity.

as far as the culture goes i guess you just dont like it. But the pro wrestling entrances and stuff is more entertaining to watch live. And the ufc totally doesnt borrows the trash talk and BMF shit that superior american audience likes more.
 
Sweater of AV said:
This is what people who are clueless about Japan and think a cage is better than a ring look like.

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Lets not stereotype all ufc fans as dumb meat heads. Just like lets not stereotype all pride fans as elitists.
 
Bearknuckle said:
Pankration was not the beginning of mma. It had grappling and striking, but it didn’t MIX any different martial arts.

the mixing of all styles of martial arts was always the original intent of the gracies, and what real mma is built around.

As far as the ring stuff goes i agree, its just not suited for free fighting. A cage is much better and gives mma its own identity.

as far as the culture goes i guess you just dont like it. But the pro wrestling entrances and stuff is more entertaining to watch live. And the ufc totally doesnt borrows the trash talk and BMF shit that superior american audience likes more.
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Yes it was. It doesn't matter how primitive it was, it was the first version of this sport. You can make the same argument about boxing since it was almost a different sport in the beginning, in fact it had quite a bit of standing grappling in it. But it was still boxing. No boxing fan in the world is gonna tell you that the sport is only as old as the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.

Good that you admit the Ring idea for MMA was idiotic, but you're digging yourself a hole here with these other arguments, so do all these Pride fans. Whatever drama the North American MMA brings, nothing is more outrageous than Japanese MMA. It was cringy. I would never be able to show my friends that format of MMA without getting laughed at. Half ass pro wrestling, even had fixed fights. And I mean you're complaining about the BMF belt. That's what your Pride did, with Minowaman and Sakuraba's stupid fucking kiddy belts. Lets not turn into hypocrites.
 
Yes, however I disliked the overpopulation of living in the Kanto region, Ironically I felt much safer about my kids there than I do nearly a decade later and older in the not as densely populated US.
 
I went to a ufc card there 6ish years ago. Saw Gomi fight in Japan, main event was kinda lame, I think OSP vs someone. It was at Saitama. Had an amazing time just being apart of it
 
As cool as the production was in Pride in the heyday it would be hard to watch it all if you were doing 40+ events a year. It would become kind of boring. Even doing it for 15 events it would run its course over time. Especially in a world of we want it now attitude.
 
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