Worst MMA-related conversation you've had with a casual or non-fan?

I worked with guy who called chuck liddell "Chris Liddell" .

he believed TMA like wushu could dominate in mma.
 
I tried to interview Mark Coleman many years ago.

That was almost as difficult as trying to interview the love child of Sylvester Stallone and Babalu because of the language barrier and speech impediment.

Does that count?
 
Zer said:
My Dad's the same. He thinks the whole thing is gay as fuck

I remember I went on this 5 minute spiel to my Dad about how badass Fedor was and how he was the GOAT and he was from Russia and how he got got dumped on his spine and instantly recovered and won the fight seconds later ... it was pure poetry. Even a UFC shill with Dana White sat on his face would be thinking Fedor was the GOAT after that shit.

So my Dad listens to all this, after I've poured my heart and soul into describing Fedor to him, and he just shoots me a glance as if I just said "There's this Fedor dude and he can legit fit like 4 dicks in his mouth at once". He didn't say a word. I just walked off wishing Fedor was my Dad.
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I think your father has a deep dark fabulous secret.
 
Since people know that I'm an MMA fan and watch UFC regularly they constantly want to start a conversation by asking when this McGregor dude is gonna fight again. I just say I don't know.
 
All the people who insisted Conor was gonna KO Floyd was pretty funny.
 
Ares Black said:
I was watching Tim Sylvia vs Jeff Monson. Terrible, boring fight. Made much worse by the guy at the bar yelling "Triangle, Triangle" over and over.

Tim Sylvia was on the bottom. I very much doubted he was going to catch ADCC champion Jeff Monson in a triangle choke.
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I remember that fight. One of the worst most boring fights I have ever watched. I’ve watched some crap too.
 
the number of people that would try to argue with me that "GSP fights like a bitch" at work or at the bar was astounding...and I'm in Canada FFS
 
I stopped following mma closely when PRIDE went away. I avoid talking sports with strangers. They usually don't know shit about anything.
 
I live in the country and used to fight 10 years ago, people still to this day ask me if I'm still fighting or try to bring up MMA with me. One day i went to a feed store in town and ole guy who knows I used to fight was there with one of his buddy's, both of these guys are pure country old guys wearing overalls, one guy is a farmer the other guy drives trains. So ole dude tells his friend that I used to fight in MMA and the older guys looks at him like he's fucking crazy and asks him, "What the hell is that?!".

{<jordan}

He was dead serious and it was so funny to me.
 
I tell no one I watch MMA.

I watch it alone in a dark room.

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Nothing specific but anyone who says, "that fighter is punching/kicking wrong" or "this guy sucks! I'd kick their ass!" is a fuckin knob in my opinion.

Exception is if we're watching replays of Honda's last 2 fights.
 
I used to meet up in a Cebu, Philippines sports bar with a practicing Australian doctor that is convinced Mickey Gall will be champion one day.

A limitless supply of jokes right there....
 
Im never arsed, I dont get into detailed conversations with them coz I find the whole thing awkward - as an example of what I mean, there's this proper loser/weird fat 'lesbian' at work (lesbian by default, I dont know if shes ever been with a girl but no bloke would bother so it seems she's lesbian by default). She's a loner and spends her entire free time online gaming in her bedroom, but she's constantly in the kitchen chewing peoples ears off about online interactions and camaraderie she has with fellow online gamers like she's talking about actual friends/real life socialising.

I dont want to be her and be chewing the ears off people about a sport they couldn't care less about, so I only bring up MMA to actual fans.
 
My oldest brother was dumb enough to bet on Tim Sylvia over Fedor. I tried to dissuade him from it but he loves losing money.
 
My buddy brought over a friend of his - some 40 year old snobby guy - and we met at BW3s for the Conor/Aldo fight. Through out the card this guy was trying to lecture us on how bad UFC fighters are and how he would do better if in their shoes.

I asked him what his background in fighting was and he was like, "I'm a black belt in karate. You know, real martial arts."
I started laughing hysterically and told him to STFU. The drinks kept pouring and his ego kept getting bigger. I was about to go off on the idiot until my buddy stepped in and was like, "I'm sorry invited your dumb as. Get the fuck out here, or at least don't sit with us."

The guy spent the next 20 minutes walking between the bar and coming back to our table begging to let him back in. Fucking pathetic.
 
Oddly enough I had this conversation with a friend on Tuesday and he insists its fake because Brock Lesnar was in it and this makes it fake. That and, he doesn't believe mixed martial arts to have anything to do with martial arts because they are not wearing their karate/judo gi or kung fu uniforms. He thinks that MMA is like pro wrestling. As in, wrestling is real but pro wrestling is not. So to him martial arts are real but UFC/MMA is not due to the personality and WWE cross overs.
 
A couple of years ago I was at my local community center working out and next to the weight room there was youth karate lessons being taught by two older black guys. After working out I went into the locker room and the two instructors were in there talking. I overheard them mention Ron van Clief, a karate practitioner who fought once back in the day in the ufc. So I ask them if they follow mma, an uncomfortable silence commences and one of them says something along the lines of that stuff is street fighting. I try to tell them how there are many karate practitioners in mma but they legit completely ignore me and go back to there conversation
 
Last weekend I was out at a corn maze with my wife and kids and I was wearing my UFC hat. At one point we passed this group of six adults that looked to be in their early thirties. It was three women and their three husbands or boyfriends. Two of the guys saw me wearing my hat and then I heard them say this to each other:

“Is McGregor ever going to fight again? It’s been a long time since Mayweather”

“Yeah, he’s fighting like next month”

“Oh yeah, who’s he fighting?”

“Some guy I’ve never heard of. Supposed to be unbeaten or something”

“Oh yeah? Huh”

:rolleyes:
 
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