Thread: UFC and MMA Bad Sportsmanship Double Standards. What Is Acceptable?

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There is a difference. Fans want to be entertained.

Doing the same signature move after you win, of a throat slit isn't disrespectful, because the fighter does it EVERY time he wins, decision, KO, or submission.

Daley immediately apologized for his stupid antics, because he was pumped up, realized he did something stupid, then said he was sorry.

Brock was pumped up, did a WHOLE lotta things stupid, then kept on doing more and more things disrespectful and stupid. Until his boss (Dana) told him to apologize. If Dana never told him to say sorry, I know to this day, he still wouldn't have apologized.

To me that is the difference. Everyone makes mistakes, but do you learn from your mistakes? Or do you need an adult around to treat you like a child? "Now Brock you need to settle down. Go apologize and sit in the corner!"

Or are you trying to be the bad boy to get more attention? If so then people are going to criticize you, and rightly so they should. You are acting out to get more people to watch your fights, and in doing so, you know you are being disrespectful, but you do it anyway.

How a fighter acts never bothers me. The only thing I have a problem with is fighters holding submissions longer than they should or repeatedly striking an opponent after they are clearly knocked out. The refs are trying to pull them off but they hold on to their submission a few seconds longer to try and prove something to the other guy. That is compete bull****.