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Originally Posted by Killed by Death
I'm the same with MMA... I've tried watch but don't enjoy it...How do you pick a fighter?
Do you fight? Bet?
I couldn't enjoy F1 through technical analysis...I pick my team, driver and nemesis.
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I guess you got a few options:
1) pick a fighter with a back story that compels you, for example Francis Ngannou, grew up in poverty in Cameroon working the sand mines as a child, and then tried to escape to France through the desert and got caught multiple times each time facing the risk of being killed. When he escaped to France he was homless on the streets and then one day a boxing gym next to the local soup kitchen let him in to train for free and they saw he had god like power in his punches (he holds the record for the hardest punch out of any human of all time - well that was measured I suppose). Then he got an oppotunity to go the the UFC and the rest is history.
2) Pick a fighter with characteristics you like, for example: Max holloway and robert whittaker, both humble and chills guys and really nice people in general. But their fighting style is incredible with Max putting immense pressure that breaks people down, or Rob just putting incredible combos and devestating head kicks.
3) Pick just an insane unbelieveable character to ride the bandwagon train on, like Khamzat Chimaev, fought like 4 times in the UFC has been hit 2 times cleanly. Like HOLY CRAP how does that even happen? This guy is unbeliabely special. His back story is really good too.
4) Pick a fighter who has the style you like: Izzy for unbelieveable damn near comic book animated movie fighting style, like it is unreal his striking is next level with faints and precision. Or pick an unbelievable ground game specialist like Khabib, or Damien Maia. Or pick a well rounded fighter like Georges St Pierre and see the mastery of his stand up striking system where every strike's base is designed to look the same so it is hard to read, to reactive double leg take downs. Valentina is also incredible to watch, her style is just so silky smooth, everything is lightning fast and precise just wow.
Nope I did not compete for fear of brain damage, trained a bit and might go back to rolling when Covid calms down. Might even head to a boxing gym for the sweet science, but again I want to avoid head trauma and your hands and fingers get effed up hitting the heavy bag over and over again.
I do not bet either - if I did I probably would be broke because it is so hard to call fights. If I did bet it would be on Valentina and Nunes because they are so dominant (probably never on a male fighter because no one is as dominant as these two except maybe jones), but since these two are such huge favorites youd probably be making pennies unless you bet into the tens of thousands of dollars range.