The Importance of Being Positive - and the detriment of the sport due to ceaseless negativity of the new age fans....
Sherdog and forum posters' fighter hatred - read, and see if you are guilty of this.....
Examples: Frank Mir, Shane Carwin, Diego Sanchez
Mir;
Mir vs Lesnar 3 would be a contest between two fighters with many detractors. However, with Lesnar I can understand it - the stereotypical american jock bully with the mind of an unpleasant, overgrown child. But Mir gets as much if not more hatred just for some of the innocuous statements he makes in his extremely forthright interviews.
Sherdog howls with rage as Mir opines that, yes - at his best, he feels he could beat Fedor (I personally dont think so). And he claims to be upset by the excuses made for Nogueira after Mir handily beat him. As a fighter, of course he thinks and says these things!
Mir is a 2x world champion (to me, brock was interim champ) and trains daily to get back up there. Of COURSE he believes that at his best he could beat the best - that belief is what got him there in the first place! Of COURSE he makes these claims - he believes them, and wants everyone else to believe them too!
In short, fighters have to have tremendous self-belief, and in the case of world champions, that belief is largely vindicated.
If Mir did not believe he could avenge ufc 100, or beat Fedor, why would he even bother training, and spending his life trying to regain his place at the top? And that makes it disgraceful 'shit talking' when he offers his frank opinions? That makes him a <-->? (fill in the blank with all the vile shit sherdoggers say about him, just for answering questions with confidence)
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Carwin;
Shane Carwin gave an interview in which he claimed he had 'the tools' to beat Fedor. Sherdog erupted in rage at Shane 'shit talking', overlooking the fact that Shane may or may not believe it, but can hardly give a potential opponent a sign of weakness, or show weakness before his fellow heavyweights?
Not to mention the endless 'Shanes Size' threads that pop up everywhere, earing him more hatred. Jesus, people - the UFC hypes him, their hype machines is ridiculous, and always has been!!!
And to me - raised in northern england where banter is daily and relentless in order to raise men who can shrug off pisstaking, understand humour and show emotional maturity - to me holding grudges on such slight matters shows that many sherdoggers have serious problems, and could not function in the real world.
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Stevia Sanchez;
Now, there is a Diego Sanchez thread where Diego makes a statement that he believes himself to be BJ Penn's Kryptonite. The TS claims that such 'shit talk' makes it impossible to be his fan.
Well boohoo. Boo fucking hoo. Such a disparaging, disrespectful shit talker is Diego, to have the cheek to tell an interviewer that he feels he can beat his next opponent. That he is not going in there expecting to lose. How dare he.
Disgraceful.
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This concept is clearly beyond many, but I will try.
Fighters NEED uber self belief. Fighters NEED to show their confidence.
And fighters CANNOT show weakness to their opponents.
In the case of Mir, you have a fighter who gives forthright and very honest, unflinching interviews where he gives his opinion on his past and future opponents, his own ability, and often makes very good points, yet sherdoggers use every little statement about how he can beat Mr X as a reason to hold a lifelong grudge. How DARE he have that belief, and share it with us!
You idiots take comments out of context and use them as an excuse to hold lifelong grudges, to shit all over an elite fighter's entire career, just because he feels he can beat your favourite fighter, or that Mr X's ground game isn't as good as his etc.
They forge a career at the top level, only to have it shat on for making one candid statement in a typically PR filled interview of a fighter.
How should they respond?
Interviewer: "So Frank, at your best could you beat Fedor?"
Frank Mir: "Of course not, fool! The motorcycle crash flushed my physical prime down the toilet, and even at my best I couldn't defeat the great Fedor - he submitted big Tim a whole ten seconds faster than I did. Plus my on paper best win over Nogueira was when Nog was recovering from staph - Fedor beat a perfectly healthy, happy Nog twice over in Pride, where the best fighters fought."
See what I mean? That is what many sherdoggers seem to want him to say.... at the very least, they get pissed off and E-wail miserably if he contradicts any of the above.
Please, stop polluting sherdog and the rest of the fight forums just because 80% of you have axes to grind for the rest of your lives, just because a guy has the audacity to say he could beat your no.1 fighter in an interview. Stop using it to shit on the guy and his career.
How boring would it be if every fighter in MMA and K1 lived by such stringent rules and philosophy.... no 'shit talk'? No hostility in the fight game? No controversial statements? No colourful personalities?
Please, try to be an adult. Even if (as many here are) you're an American 15 year old. Pretend you are English, anything. Show some emotional maturity. Please. Stop polluting sherdog and the other forums with your endless, hateful crap.
Post this across the forums, for the sake of humanity....
It's been emotional.
Fletch
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