Why are all the best mma fighters from the USA?

[SuperNerd]

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[BForrester]

Why does America suck so much at weightlifting? The only medals we've won since 84 (when the Soviet nations boycotted) was in 2000, which was won by a female. No American male has won a medal since '76 (84 doesnt count because of the boycott).

Because we don't give a shit about the clean and jerk and the snatch? Powerlifting to Americans is squat, dead lift, and bench press.

 

[BForrester]

America is mainly only good at their own made up sports that they like to think are globally popular yet in reality no other country even plays it and certainly doesn't give a fuck about it.

All sports are made up. At least we're good at our made up sports. You guys suck at soccer any more. All you've got is cricket on which to hang your hats. lol...Cricket....

 

[BForrester]

Have you ever noticed that every popular American sport is a series of stoppages and time outs and set plays and "A word from our sponsor" every five minutes, they are so monotonous they just drag on and on and on. If you ever suffer from a case of insomnia just try and watch a baseball game, they're painful to watch.
When Americans complain about "soccer" being low scoring what they fail to realize is that's the whole point as the game is always on a knife edge and its like watching high speed chess where a single mistake can loose you the game, not this lets see who can get to 50 points the quickest nonsense that Americans seem to be obsessed with.

Soccer? You mean the same sport where if you accidentally get breathed on by an opponent, you writhe around on the ground for 3 minutes like you were just shot? Soccer players are the biggest pussies in all of sports.

 

[bad seed]

Because we don't give a shit about the clean and jerk and the snatch? Powerlifting to Americans is squat, dead lift, and bench press.

except we clearly used to care a lot, and that interest was renewed by Crossfit. America wants a weightlifting medal really bad but it continues to elude us. Maybe we can only excel in shitty sports no one else participates in like NASCAR and baseball.

 

[Frank23]

The top MMA organization is in the US.

 

[Deleted member 535377]

Greatest FW of all time - Conor
Greatest LW of all time - Conor
Greatest WW of all time - GSP closely followed by Dan Hardy
MW - Bisping
LHW - Jimi Manuwa
HW - Butterbean

Okay.., you get to claim HW I guess.

 

[MadDogMahoney]

Football is dope.

Fight me.

 

[Calipwnia]

Look at all the top UFC guys in the present and also in the past. Most are American. It seems to be the same in boxing. Why is this?

It seems in general that USA produces better athletes in most sports. Is it because the US funds athletes more than other countries? I mean the only other country that really produces any good fighters is Brazil and it has come to light that most Brazilian fighters failed USADA testing.

Why is it that most other countries can’t really reach the standard of skills and toughness that USA fighters have? Will it ever change? It would be nice if other countries could produce fighters who could keep up with the American guys.

We have the most empowered black people. And the most empowered white people.

 

[Source]

Even if it was. USA would most likely still be at the top of it. America dominates most other sports internationally. Look at the Olympics or baseball

What is your definition of dominating at baseball? The US has only won gold in the WBC and the olympics once each in baseball. That is hardly what I would call domination.

 

[Ruthless_swag]

Look at all the top UFC guys in the present and also in the past. Most are American. It seems to be the same in boxing. Why is this?

It seems in general that USA produces better athletes in most sports. Is it because the US funds athletes more than other countries? I mean the only other country that really produces any good fighters is Brazil and it has come to light that most Brazilian fighters failed USADA testing.

Why is it that most other countries can’t really reach the standard of skills and toughness that USA fighters have? Will it ever change? It would be nice if other countries could produce fighters who could keep up with the American guys.

Because america has the best doping facility available to their so called athletes.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

we dominate and control others. We are the worlds police.

 

[Ruthless_swag]

Plus its geared towards wresltlers. Too many bs rules that inhibit proper strikers from displaying their full potential. Its flawed. Americans have a massive advantage due to the rules. So should russians but meh whatever.

 

[Ruthless_swag]

If USA had more interest in soccer we would dominate. Its pretty safe to say that. Look at our college level athletes

Being athletic alone wont win you games. Soccer requires a lot of skill and no amount of strength, speed, power, endurance workouts is going to help them in that regard. South americans just have that natural skillset, flair and guile which are difficult attributes to master for americans.

 

[Kingz]

Oh brother

This type of thread pops up every month. Where a bunch of limp wrist silly nannies think we need their athletic dominance or interest to lend credibility to “made up” American sports. Until then, they’re just sports that nobody outside of a tiny nation of 325 million people give a shit about.

What they mean is European Countries don’t care, thus the whole world doesn’t care. As evident by the ignorant statement about international interest in baseball recorded earlier in this thread.

 

[Neph]

Ya'll posting in a troll thread

 

[D4C]

Ya'll posting in a troll thread

Posting in these threads is quite a good way to to get rid of insecurities people have of their national indentity. Some people define their very being by embodying patriotism. Reassuring yourself that your country is the absolute best and your countrymen fierce and fearless makes you confident in your own abilities. Feeling that you are part of something mighty and unbeatable makes you feel and act superior, which is completely ok, as it is effective coping mechanism in the fight against all these alien cultures.

Cognitive bias is hell of a drug.

 

[MadDogMahoney]

Being athletic alone wont win you games. Soccer requires a lot of skill and no amount of strength, speed, power, endurance workouts is going to help them in that regard. South americans just have that natural skillset, flair and guile which are difficult attributes to master for americans.

Tell me more about this "natural skillset"...

 

[Twelve75]

If USA had more interest in soccer we would dominate. Its pretty safe to say that. Look at our college level athletes

been a while since I read some clueless white belt horse shit



thanks dude.

 

[Hotei]

Look at all the top UFC guys in the present and also in the past. Most are American. It seems to be the same in boxing. Why is this?

It seems in general that USA produces better athletes in most sports. Is it because the US funds athletes more than other countries? I mean the only other country that really produces any good fighters is Brazil and it has come to light that most Brazilian fighters failed USADA testing.

Why is it that most other countries can’t really reach the standard of skills and toughness that USA fighters have? Will it ever change? It would be nice if other countries could produce fighters who could keep up with the American guys.

Are we talking combat sports or sports in general? Two very different topics.
In Italy for example combat sports are a niche of a niche, even boxing nowdays is considered pretty much nothing. In my hometown if a kid wants to start boxing (and he doesn't) he just can't because the nearest gym is like 30km from home. meanwhile he has dozens of other sports to choose at 0 km from home.