Are Americans falling behind in MMA?

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Firstly, I do not think Americans have fallen behind, and I am not American.
Secondly, MMA has a long way to go if you want it to take the place of boxing.
 
-guerilla- said:
26 years ago no-holds-barred fighting was supposed to prove what the greatest martial art was, here we are today and I think the answer is pretty clear mixed martial arts as a style is superior to every other discipline ever created however I've noticed that the United States has fewer mixed martial arts gyms then I expected by now.

I expected mixed martial arts to take over the world but today if you search for MMA on Google Maps 99% of the results will be Brazilian jiu-jitsu gyms.

Royce Gracie was a Phenom No Doubt but we don't see anybody walking into the ring in a Jiu-Jitsu Gi nowadays however 99% of your training opportunities in 99% of America's hometowns is traditional Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

why has Brazilian jiu-jitsu dominated the the American martial arts market for so many years and it's almost impossible to find pure mixed martial arts as a style in most of America's towns?

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu doesn't have video games or TV shows or betting odds like MMA however it dominates the martial arts Marketplace!

I really feel like the rest of the world is leaving America in the dust and the fact that we are the biggest country with the best technology and the best athletes and still don't dominate the grappling Sports and MMA is a bit of a cluster.

In a lot of countries the state actually has free gymnasiums where people can go train in Combat Athletics meanwhile in America all our training opportunitys are private for-profit businesses who sweat liability and prioritize profits.

don't let the UFC rankings fool you,
I don't think the UFC has the best fighters in the world I think they put on the best fights in the world there's a difference!
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God bless online forums for giving intellectually crippled people with misguided views of their own intelligence a place to express themselves
 
Greco_Wiz said:
Not getting into all that lulz. On a different note, you’re in Louisville?
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was in Louisville for several decades but im in Wilmington NC now, just starting a new MMA club.

check out Louisville MMA fight team, thats the offshoot of my club.
 
welcometohavoc said:
God bless online forums for giving intellectually crippled people with misguided views of their own intelligence a place to express themselves
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We also use the gym, you should show up there sometime!
 
-guerilla- said:
I think MMA is taking over boxing.

https://sports.bwin.com/en/news/infographics/ufc-vs-boxing-graphic

they could loose that edge with too many early stoppages however
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You need to see quantified criteria instead of those subjective useless sentences.
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At least boxing is something in terms of market share, while MMA is nothing but a part of "others".
 
Meh, when you look at the world population, US fighters still do better than average. The major MMA promotion is US based.
I don't think they're falling behind, the rest of the world just catches up, if the sport is somewhat accepted in society.
I mean, Germany has more than 80mil people but not one person is in the Top 10 of any weightclass.
 
People generally don't like getting punched and kicked so obviously jiu jitsu will be the more popular martial art to train in
 
americans suck at fighting . The only reason they're on top is because they're the majority of fighters that the ufc hire for promotional purposes.
 
Fantasy said:
There was a million mma gyms when Chuck was knocking people out. They all went out of business and mma quickly faded out of pop culture in the US. There’s very few people who are even casual fans now, and nobody even knows who the champs are.
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Bjj schools are hard to keep open from the high turn over rate of students. People are pussies now. When they find out it takes real work and they might get sore, they quit. Now stack getting hit and double legged in an mma gym.
 
-guerilla- said:
I think MMA is taking over boxing.

https://sports.bwin.com/en/news/infographics/ufc-vs-boxing-graphic

they could loose that edge with too many early stoppages however
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MMA is not an Olympic sport yet. A non-Olympic sport has very little chance to take over an Olympic sport, unless there are large capital inflows as that to American football. In the broad third world markets, a non-Olympic sport has almost no chance to compete with an Olympic sport, partly due to the fact that most of the talented athletes are absorbed by national and provincial amateur sports systems because almost no private clubs have the influence and financial resources better than those of governments, partly due to the comparatively immature sports market, where large capitals would not give a chance to immature sports such as MMA.
 
Typical thread . Non Americans have t group the entire world together to compare to us.
 
ijngf said:
MMA is not an Olympic sport yet. A non-Olympic sport has very little chance to take over an Olympic sport, unless there are large capital inflows as that to American football. In the broad third world markets, a non-Olympic sport has almost no chance to compete with an Olympic sport, partly due to the fact that most of the talented athletes are absorbed by national and provincial amateur sports systems because almost no private clubs have the influence and financial resources better than those of governments, partly due to the comparatively immature sports market, where large capitals would not give a chance to immature sports such as MMA.
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I think MMA has a very good chance of making it into the Olympics.

I originally called my gym a pankratIon club but it was too confusing

The fact is if pankration makes it back into the Olympics Americans are going to suck at it.... just the same way we suck at all the grappling and fighting Sports
 
Americans have no excuse not to dominate every sport in the world considering the number of athletes the money and the facilities we have in this country...

We can't win at Combat Sports because we don't let our young people train in it.

If we had Judo boxing and wrestling in schools, parks and community centers like we DID BACK IN THE DAY maybe we'd have a shot.

Instead martial arts is a for-profit business in this country and your Premiere training facility is most likely located in the strip mall.

Plus our PC toxic masculinity pussy ass culture is destroying what's left of the American fighting spirit

Meanwhile a tiny little country like Dagestan is whipping our ass because they have a hardcore mentality and the old Soviet Bloc athletic infrastructure.
 
D 1 Wrestler said:
Typical thread . Non Americans have t group the entire world together to compare to us.
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In which case they beat your asses at Combat Sports.

Why can't Americans dominate Combat Sports?
 
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