Biggest thing that grinds your gears from casuals?

[Eater of Souls]

Guys who "could have been a UFC fighter" piss me off to no end. Bitch, the last time you got in a fight your sister beat your ass. Sit down and shut the fuck up.

Bandwagon riders in general, whether casual or not.

 

[Rubios]

Guys who "could have been a UFC fighter" piss me off to no end. Bitch, the last time you got in a fight your sister beat your ass. Sit down and shut the fuck up.

Bandwagon riders in general, whether casual or not.

This people actually exist?

I mean, dudes who train or trained should be able to see clear as a day they are levels squared below any "can" in the UFC.
And that no one is buying his tall tales.

 

[don't ask]

Those people watch fights to unlock ancestral blood memories, honestly the most hardcore of all fans.

They still casual, tho, if they can get the same feelings from drunken fights at the Waffle House.

 

[Eater of Souls]

This people actually exist?

I mean, dudes who train or trained should be able to see clear as a day they are levels squared below any "can" in the UFC.
And that no one is buying his tall tales.

I suspect most of them have never trained at all. And yes, they do.

 

[jeskola]

1 win: let's talk GOAT status
1 loss: over, done, loser, never my friend

 

[puppybird]

So if one knew about all the chemical reactions involved in paint drying, would it suddenly become exciting?

Nice strawman

I’m stealing this in a future argument lol

 

[Slapjit]

" #PowerSlap dangal are drug addict and homeless only haanji "

Buddy HW champion is graduate law degree only acceptable non-STEM LMBO Former MW champion Puerto Rican Pretty Boy have engineering degree working as rocket scientist currently. This is not MMA ji

 

[arrmike]

So-and-so should get better cardio.

Fighters in the ufc are most likely at or near their natural ceiling. And there is a pace that ANYONE will gas from. If you go all-out, it might pay off with a finish or you light gas…but it doesn’t mean your cardio is lacking.

 

[Hotora86]

So if one knew about all the chemical reactions involved in paint drying, would it suddenly become exciting?

Strawman fallacy

 

[Hotora86]

My biggest pet peeve is when 2 amazing martial artists get together and nobody cares because they didn't talk enough shit on social media.

100% this

 

[markantony20]

It falls under recently bias as well


For me one of the biggest things that makes my gears grind from casuals is resume

“Well B.J.Penn and Matt Hughes resume didn’t age well and they had too many losses.”

Just an irrelevant conversation in GOAT status like in 10 20 years you will have to fight tooth and nail as to why your goat of a divison is not overrated


Like a great example would be after Kamaru Usman KOed Jorge Masvidal back in 2021,Kamaru Usman just got his 3rd title defence and many people including forum posters on Sherdog, said that Usman was the GOAT and that GSP was a bum who lost to Matt Serra



Fast Forward 4 years

And Usman has lost the belt via KO to a mentally defeated Leon Edwards at altitude, via a head kick in the 5th round, (Belal and Brady also made Leon mentally (defeated and embarrassed him)

Kamaru then lost a majority decision to Leon

Lost to Khamzat in a close fight that (should have a draw)

And beat Buckley

And now Usmans back to begging for a title shot off one win

I honestly get more fed up with “hardcore” fans because it’s a never ending race to see who is more hard to the core.

The worst casuals can be is ignorant but hardcore fans are knowingly awful.

 

[Poirierfan]

i've been watching hard for 20+ years but i dropped to casual status the last 5. diluted cards, i barely know the current roster or upcoming talent.

32 years here and the same. 5 years ago I couldn't have imagined me missing any fights

 

[gentel]

Most annoying casualtastic behavior filthy casuals display?

Hmm, thinking about it I guess I'd say... not being fans of Belal "Remember the Name" Muhammad

 

[loisestrad]

@loisestrad you just gonna let this guy talk shit on you like that!?

I've been here since long before the McGregor-era started.

But you're right in the way that I've been supporting McGregor. He was a great and entertaining fighter inside and outside of the Octagon.

No longer support him though, I kinda find it difficult to be supporting convicted rapists.

 

[chinarice]

People who cry fights are boring and only blame the guy that actually did something and never blame the guy on his back who just played the defensive survival game.

 

[balkanbomber85]

It has been mentioned before, but I feel nobody really managed to present the issue in an understandable way.

What I hate most about casuals is how they dismiss fighters and their legacies just by looking at their record on Wikipedia or Sherdog. It’s always something like: “Fedor was never good, bro, the dude got knocked out by Badr with the first punch.” But they have no idea what it meant to be there in 2005, when Fedor seemed more like a higher being than a mortal human.

People don’t understand what the Machida Era was, when literally 90% of Sherdog was debating whether karate was the best base for MMA. Or when Brock won the title and the “new era of HWs” began, with the belief that a fighter under 265 lbs (with a cut) would never touch the belt again. (Granted, Brock isn’t the best example since it was short-lived, but still.)

The point is: a legacy is more than just a record. It’s a feeling that nearly everybody shared at a certain point in time.​

 

[BowserJr]

Casuals thinking everyone from the current generation is better than anyone from past generations

Jones stans
Mcgregor stans

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Strawman fallacy

Cop-out fallacy!

 

[Harlekin]

"Conor Mcgregor looked good vs Mayweather and took rounds from him"

Facts:
Mayweather threw 6 punches in the first round, which included a few fake punches.
Got an explanation for that?
Answer:
He carried Conor not throwing anything for 3 rounds. Which was negotiated beforehand.
Then he had some fun with him and later on and started fighting in the 6-7th round.

 

[Blastbeat]

The fighter that tapped to strikes is a pussy, the fighter who tapped to a toe hold is still a warrior.

You're a pussy if you tap to stop yourself from getting killed or ending up with brain damage, but you're not a pussy if you tapped to some discomfort to your extremities which will heal and have zero effect on your long term health.

goddamn i really hate this mentality and you put it very succinctly.