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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
I do not have some fetish about people only being allowed to fight while upright, the point is that the core of MMA, the part that the element which thinks boxing is "not xtreme enough" adores, is when a man is knocked down and then pounded when he is vulnerable and unable to defend himself.
THIS is unmanly, this is an act of pure cowardice. I seem to have to keep repeating myself because some people dont seem to grasp what to me seems a quite simple principle. A sport that allows a man to be struck when he is down, when he is unable to defend himself - is overly brutal and unmanly.
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I think this is the core of the disagreement.
Being on the ground is not necessarily the same as defenseless or incapacitated. A referee in an MMA match is expected to stop the fight when a fighter is incapacitated. However, this doesn't happen so often, as MMA is a sport of multiple strategies rather than sheer bludgeoning. The vast majority of the time a fighter goes down to the ground, he is still conscious and able to fight. That's why the fights continue on, sometimes for several minutes.
As long as you base your dislike for MMA on the "cowardice of striking a fallen opponent" and, at the same time, willfully ignore the way the sport's rules and strategies are structured, there isn't much basis for discussion. Until you start to structure your criticism with more understanding, you'll be talking about things that are simply incorrect.