Public school vs Private Training Facility

[JacJeanFinger]

Every time I get bored with MMA fights, I look at who is in the cage and there's always the guys who wrestled at public high school and/or college. When I watch JMMA, the fighters who put me to sleep are always Judo guys who were in competition team for their public high school and/or college.

Early UFC didn't have a fighter who had their training at public school. Royce was a Gracie. BJJ is private although one can learn at police, military or some public colleges. Ken Shamrock's Lion Den was a strictly private institute where nothing was paid by tax money. Until Daniel stalling Severn, a wrestling product of 18 year long public education won it, UFC was a pure contest of privately trained athletes.

Today, upper contenders are mostly the ones who wrestled at public schools. I just don't think it feels right when I hear public money are being spent to create a fighter. I want my tax money to produce a good honest hardworking man rather than MMA fighter.

MMA should be kept underground and private. Thanks

 

[NHB7]

That was a lot of effort for such a pointless, awful thread.

 

[JacJeanFinger]

Public School

Matt Hughes, Cain Valesguez, Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier, Rashad Evans,
Ben Askren, TJ Dillashaw, Demetrious Johnson, Miesha Tate, - they fight to earn living

Private Gym

Nick Diaz, BJ Penn, Matt Serra, GSP, Rory MacDonald, Frank Mir, Joe Lauzon,
Brazilians, - they fight because they're warriors.

 

[manboy<3]

That was a lot of effort for such a pointless, awful thread.

I don't know man I think he is a pretty unique poster on this site

He is obviously trains MMA and has extensive brain damage from it and this leads to some surreal and interesting threads that he makes

 

[manboy<3]

It's true the problem I have with public trainning is that all the publically trained fighters have been institutionalized and there is now nothing left of the original animal personality in any of them at all

They all are orthodoxly trained people with orthodox styles

People like Datsik and Joe Son and some of those japs that trained in basements/dungeons that no outsider was ever allowed in those are the kind of Animals I like to see fight

By the way what do you think of felony fights ? Do you consider inmates getting training in prison to be part of public education ?
Private Gym

 

[NHB7]

Public School

Matt Hughes, Cain Valesguez, Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier, Rashad Evans,
Ben Askren, TJ Dillashaw, Demetrious Johnson, Miesha Tate, - they fight to earn living

Private Gym

Nick Diaz, BJ Penn, Matt Serra, GSP, Rory MacDonald, Frank Mir, Joe Lauzon,
Brazilians, - they fight because they're warriors.

Nick Diaz has publicly said on numerous occasions that he doesn't like to fight and that he only does it to make a living. This has repeatedly led to contract disputes when he did not feel he was being paid enough or he wanted a higher profile opponent so that he could get a bigger payday.

 

[Fluffernutter]

I doubt any of the folks you named within the public school listing started wrestling because they wanted to be a professional fighter. Heck, I am sure most had no idea what MMA was when they first put on a pair of wrestling shoes.

Rather, they joined the wrestling team because they liked the sport, wanted a challenge, or had a friend that was on the wrestling team. Then, after their wrestling "career" was over, they simply found something new that interested them: MMA.

After all, it's not like Jackson-Wink, AKA, ATT, etc. are public institutions. They are now training in private facilities once their public school wrestling days were complete.