Becoming a pro fighter is the worst idea ever

[Boomb]

Good point OP. Male pornstar is way to go

Agreed!

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[Dbreiden83080]

I am sure tons of kids in HS are excited about the idea of being a top 10 UFC fighter making 10/10 on a card..

Sign them up..

 

[TheBulge]

TS, you're looking at this from your own perspective. You are not like them, they are a different breed of people. The things you list as negative like "getting beat up in training, suffering every day" etc. is something they not only handle well but thrive on. Same with the rush of chasing glory, the odds being stacked against them etc. Just because it would be horrible for you doesn't mean it would be for them. Get over yourself.

 

[campbecc]

It's a gamble for sure but for some it pays off really well. The real mistake is not getting out when it's clear you will never be high level.

 

[Sickbro69420]

 

[Royce's Gi]

Regardless of your style (you may be very very efficient with avoiding getting hit), you will still get injured.

Be it from training or from the fights itself.

Even if you avoidt getting knocked out, you can blow your acl, tear ligaments, suffer concussions

If you're not Top 5, it's not worth it monetarily.

Eventually (even the Anderson Silvas and the Machidas get hit eventually), you will get hit real hard by a Gerard Gordeau-type of fighter and lose your teeth.

NOT worth it!

 

[arcadeperfect]

Good point OP. Male pornstar is way to go

You'd have to be a doctor, lawyer, teacher, astronaut, pizza man, and plumber. Essentially you'd have to be the hardest working American.

 

[Royce's Gi]

It's a gamble for sure but for some it pays off really well. The real mistake is not getting out when it's clear you will never be high level.

It sure paid off for the Plumber McGregor!

Paid off for Cowboy Cerrone to.

 

[AnotherOldGuy]

Seriously, no one should ever want to become a pro fighter.
I understand that for many people it is their only way to make a living, and it that case it is acceptable. But if you grew up in a good environment you should never ever be a fighter.

- You must be better than 99% of your fellow fighters to be able to make good money and achieve a big status.
For the vast majority of fighters, just making it to the UFC is already an almost impossible task.

- If you are not a big star your payment will be shitty and you will need to waste a looot of that money in training camp. Diet, etc etc etc

- As long as you win you will get the love and respect of most fans and your boss. Once you start losing everybody will treat you like complete garbage and will make your life miserable.

- You will get beat the fck up every single day in training. It will be huge suffering every day.

- You will have tons of injuries that will absolutely ruin your life quality.

- You must have a big charisma so fans actually pay attention to you and your boss gets interested in promoting you.

- If you do not have that much of a personality, then at least you must have a very exciting style and finish your fights.

- If you get kinda famous every step you make will be surveilled. You just make something controversial and it will turn into a huge scandal that may ruin your life.

- You will train like crazy every single day for several weeks and it is a huge possibility that in the actual fight you get embarrased in front of the whole world.
Training like crazy for months just to get KOd in 30 seconds does not sound like an awesome idea.

- You will nearly kill yourself with weigh cuts.

- When you retire no one will give a damn about you anymore. And you will deal alone with all problems and medication because of the damage you received in your MMA career. All the fans that “loved” you so much in your prime years will absolutely disappear when you go through tough times.

- At 45 years (or maybe much earlier) you will be an invalid. You will have tons of broken bones, your face messed up, brain damage, and you won’t be able to do a lot of the basic stuff any normal human being can do easily.

So, do you wanna be a fighter?

Being a doctor or lawyer or engineer certainly pays better. And that's all the way up the scale, the richest doctors, lawyers and engineers are billionaires (and even multi-billionaires), the top MMA fighters haven't come close to making that kind of money.

The problem is, most people who become professional MMA fighters aren't going to become doctors, lawyers or engineers. Possibly they decided that being a professional MMA fighter isn't the worst of their realistic alternatives?

 

[CTE_Fan]

it wouldn't bother me if mma events went away even if people still trained for self defense but yeah its all about ego for the most part. i would say cage fighting is perfect cherry on top of the human shit sundae. to quote george carlin "we like war.......we're war-like people"