Biggest thing that grinds your gears from casuals?

HI SCOTT NEWMAN said:
The thing that annoys me the most is when they have a new "p4p greatest fighter ever" every time someone just wins a fight, its so cringe and embarrassing, guys like Luffy on here who have had tons of new greatest p4p fighters ever every few months and then when they lose he is on to the next one, its just too much for me. Just because someone wins a fight doesn't mean they are the new p4p greatest ever in that division
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tbh, this plagues most sports. But it's much more rapid in MMA.
 
FriskyRandy said:
Not sure if this is the answer youre looking for but...

When I was in my 20s and still training, and also had friends (sherbros are my only friends now), the amount of casual friends id have that would want to do some form of grappling during or after the events was annoying as fuck. Watching two retards trying to rear naked choke each other at the same time is brain numbing.
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Back in the day some OT Sherdoggers met up in a hotel and 2 grappled. Shared the bout on youtube. Was super gay.
 
This goes for all combat sports but the fan who says they should throw the jab more, oh he got dropped just by a body shot, that fighter checked out and has no heart, you know the guy. Anyone doing combat sports at any level deserves respect from those watching, should go without saying of course.
 
Only Here for Attachments said:
Brazilians and Mexicans are out, man, it's all about identical-looking Eurasian Muslims now.
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Will glance at the card the day of the fight and it looks like someone spilled the alphabet . Ain't nobody gonna learn all these names sound like Yogurt on Spaceballs.

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don't ask said:
I don't define casuals by how dedicated they are or how well they know the current crop of fighters, I define them by the reasons they watch the sport: if they're highly knowlegeable (and likely trained) in martial arts and they watch for the skill, then they're not a casual; if they watch for the "narratives" and all the dramatic bullshit the UFC tries to whip u, then they're a casual (regardless of how knowledgeable they actually are).

So the thing that grinds my gears about casuals is that they're the reason the UFC is rewarded for all the bullshit I hate.
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What about those who watch to see ppl get ktfo
 
Not to sound rude but one thing that annoys me about non fans/fairweather casuals is:

"What are you doing later?" Friendly work banter and small talk. Not trying to make plans or anything just shooting the shit and I respect that
"Theres a ufc card im looking forward to."
"Oh ya? Whose fighting?"
"...Nassourdine Imavov vs Caio Borhallo." ... "Benoit St Denis and Mauricio Ruffy."
"Oh."

Its like why even ask that question lol. What do you think im gonna say? Chuck Liddell? Conor Mcgregor?" Rofl

Theres an incredible amount of events nearly every Saturday. But its true theres no household names being generated
 
Having to explain to the majority of Casual Sherdog for years that Khamzat was going to win the title at WW or MW and it was just a matter of time.

Having to explain that Gilbert Burns doing well against Khamzat was no indication as to how any matchup since then would go.
 
WoozyFailGuy said:
"I could take him bro, when I see red, it's just over homie."
<{hfved}>
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<PlusJuan>

This shit right here^^^

I have met countless assholes throughout my life that fall into this category. I have sparred so many idiots who walk into the gym with their “undefeated street fight records” barking big game until they glove up. If the release of liability is signed then I give the same speech “give it as hard as you are prepared to take it” and “3 round minimums here so don’t think your going to box me blow your load r1 then make an excuse and quit” (which I do for their own good so they don’t just throw haymaker city for 3 min and I have to clip them)….When I was younger I was an admitted loose cannon with these people but now I just touch them to the body a handful of times and take the fight from their souls.
 
Same shit from everyone, casuals and hardcore fans alike. Swinging on nuts, stupid ass p4p stuff, riding hypetrains like it's a 12 inch donkey cock with their name on it.
 
DrunkMonkMeth said:
What about those who watch to see ppl get ktfo
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Good question. I'm not totally sure. They might be casual if they don't know anything about the sport and are simply in it for the feelings they get from violence.
 
Hymen Crusher said:
Double champ nonsense. Already got it going with khamzat dude finally wins a belt and its all about 3 divisions. Not even sure the 3rd because we all know its not ww so im guessing he is beating tom.
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I'm glad it seems the UFC is putting a gradual end to the double champ era in making Islam and Weili give up their titles.

Daniel Henry said:
You know what I can't stand from you "hard-core" fans you'll actually spend the time to write 6 paragraphs on your bullshit thinking I'm gonna read that shit
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It's a sad state of society when people think "I will choose to not read words, fuck paragraphs, yo" is a flex.

SuperNerd said:
None of them had brothers.
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This is the issue right here. @Travis Alexander detailed how to remedy this, steady supply of body shots.

don't ask said:
Good question. I'm not totally sure. They might be casual if they don't know anything about the sport and are simply in it for the feelings they get from violence.
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Those people watch fights to unlock ancestral blood memories, honestly the most hardcore of all fans.
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Me: just trying to watch a fight at a bar
Some Bud Light drinking casual: "Well, ya see what I'd do is..."
Me under my breath: *ah, for fucks sake this shit again*
 
Fat out of shape middle aged drunks thinking they could take lighter weight fighters cause they won a bar fight 20 years ago will never not be annoying
 
There seems to legions of fans who can't or don't want to understand that missing weight by more than a pound is a really big deal. It is massive and the professional who made weight should not be expected to yield such an advantage. Truthfully, you can't really make someone understand who has never done it. However, I automatically know that any opinion from such a person concerning MMA is worthless.
 
"The sport has evolved" cliche is always laughable to me. People heard this SO many times on commentary over the years that they just repeat it themselves despite having ZERO evidence to back up their claims.

These comments made much more sense in the mid 2000s when we had "old vs new" match-ups like Fedor vs Mark Coleman, Rich Franklin vs Ken Shamrock, Matt Hughes vs Royce Gracie, etc where one-dimensional pioneers were defeated by a well-rounded new breed but the development of the sport is nowhere near as rapid now than it was back then when cross-training was still a new thing.

Remember when Rory Macdonald was praised as this "next generation fighter" because he was training in all disciplines from the very beginning specifically for a career in MMA? Yeah... his UFC debut was 16 years ago FFS... I think the whole "he can win the fight in multiple ways" hype has cooled off quite a bit in that time period, don't you? lol

If anything, many fighters in modern day are even LESS well rounded than they were a decade ago. It's no shocker that the few competent grapplers in the sport look absolutely invincible considering 90% of ranked fighters are one-dimensional strikers who have just enough BJJ experience to not get submitted but are absolutely hopeless in terms of scrambling or god forbid being an actual threat from guard.

Fighters get old. Their reflexes slow down, their ability to take damage lessens... but it doesn't mean their skills are suddenly obsolete and that the current fighters in their prime are automatically better. Have we suddenly seen new crazy submissions and strikes being invented on every card that would make Mighty Mouse Johnson look like Tank Abbott by comparison? I was not aware of this 🤔

Styles make fights... regardless of era. Do you really think a long lanky striker like Conor McGregor would have a prayer in hell of stuffing a takedown from a prime Sean Sherk? lol Would Jack Della Maddalena piece up GSP because modern fighters are just better? LOL

"The sport has evolved" is just another lazy cliche spewed by the UFC in a desperate attempt to sell PPVs. If you catch yourself saying this post 2015... just stop. You are hopelessly brainwashed by the hype machine
 
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