Is psychopathy an advantage in fighting?

[Jizzer]

Thinly veiled jones hate thread.

Interesting how you came to the assumption it was Jones.

 

[Quietus]

Yes, clearly: Jones uses PEDs, and has said on record he uses eye pokes on purpose, because "they're effective", and justifies it with "they're trying to give me brain damage".. so at best he's a sociopath who thinks he's more important than everyone else and should get to bend the rules in order to avoid the accepted risk of cage-fighting. Everyone is going to get brain damage but he thinks he's special and should be allowed to cheat to minimize it. In this case he's allowed to get away with cheating on multiple levels by UFC, and does it guilt-free thanks to sociopathy, so clearly it helps someone as a fighter.

 

[Jizzer]

Yes. A perfect example of being crazy working out in ones benefit...
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Tony is not a psychopath, he is autistic.

 

[SquamtaOrthoptera2]

I've thought about it too, I think psychopaths would have an edge as far as being calm and calculated goes.

But they lack the ability to dig deep from an emotional place.

It's both good and bad depending on the circumstances.

This

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Thinly veiled jones hate thread.

This.
I still don't get the collective amount of energy that people waste on this forum hating JJ.

I don't know if I could hate someone so bad if this person never did anything to me or loved ones.

 

[Watcha gunna doo]

I think mike jackson is a psycopath and hes garbage.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Yeah, and I mean why do people hate Hitler so much?

I won't even respond to that. Good luck.

 

[Vergilius]

It would absolutely be an advantage.

People are misinformed about psychopaths. They associate that label with killers and murderers. It's not so. There are plenty of psychopaths that lead normal and successful lives.

In fact most people that are successful in high-level business are clinical psychopaths. They feel no remorse for fucking people over and ruining others lives on their way to the top.

You are completely wrong. Psychopaths in business tend to be able to garner short term success, but over time they often ruin themselves through being impossible to work with and because they are often unable to tell truth from lies.

 

[Watcha gunna doo]

You are completely wrong. Psychopaths in business tend to be able to garner short term success, but over time they often ruin themselves through being impossible to work with and because they are often unable to tell truth from lies.

Probably same with fighting

 

[elwani]

You are completely wrong. Psychopaths in business tend to be able to garner short term success, but over time they often ruin themselves through being impossible to work with and because they are often unable to tell truth from lies.

Probably same with fighting

I can think of a few exceptions to this:

One case is that their psychopathic behavior earns so much money that people are willing to overlook their being hard to work with.

A second case is if the psychopath succeeds at cynically convincing those around them that they are in fact empath. But maybe time reveals all things? But maybe the system is such that those who realize it will always be marginalized by the psychopath by the time they realize it.

A third case is if the expectations in the environment are so low that no empathic collaboration is possible, so empathy confers no advantages. Think prison, or maybe a really terrible work place.

 

[Super Shotgun]

Psychopaths generally become 1 of 3 things: Criminals/muderers, CEOs of companies, Politicians.

I can see how it would be a massive benefit in cage fighting too.

 

[Watcha gunna doo]

I can think of a few exceptions to this:

One case is that their psychopathic behavior earns to much money that people are willing to overlook their being hard to work with.

A second case is if the psychopath succeeds at cynically convincing those around them that they are in fact empath. But maybe time reveals all things? But maybe the system is such that those who realize it will always be marginalized by the psychopath by the time they realize it.

A third case is if the expectations in the environment are so low that no empathic collaboration is possible, so empathy confers no advantages. Think prison, or maybe a really terrible work place.

Psycopaths are in their natural habitat in prison, for sure

 

[irishzombie]

I’ll never fight a psycho or an ugly person

An ugly person has nothing to lose

 

[Damon3388]

It would absolutely be an advantage.

People are misinformed about psychopaths. They associate that label with killers and murderers. It's not so. There are plenty of psychopaths that lead normal and successful lives.

In fact most people that are successful in high-level business are clinical psychopaths. They feel no remorse for fucking people over and ruining others lives on their way to the top.

Yeah, I think people mistake psychopathy with meaning "out of control crazy", when it's not what it actually is at all.

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Don't think it is an advantage over hard work and dedication...

Not like War Machine was swimming with UFC and Bellator belts...

 

[DanMMAleague]

If it were a one off defending your family from Gengis Khan then I don’t think a psycho would fight any harder than a normal man.

But for a careerist showbiz cage fighter who could just get a normal job I’d say being a psycho would help.

 

[drbolony]

Roids, roids are an advantage:

 

[DanMMAleague]

Don't think it is an advantage over hard work and dedication...

You don’t think Jones gets more early nights than GSP because of Jones ruthlessness?

 

[Paulog]

psycopaths have an advantage on simply everything.

 

[DanMMAleague]

This.
I still don't get the collective amount of energy that people waste on this forum hating JJ.

I don't know if I could hate someone so bad if this person never did anything to me or loved ones.

Sounds like you are the type to let a passive threat get into your life and get close.