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Again, you missed the point. I'm not talking about techniques but about countries involved. MMA is not some specific niche sport like NFL, MMA is basically fighting and every country has some sport like this. I named my country because MMA as a combat sport is usually compare to boxing. Boxing is established worldwide, MMA is not, that's the point. That's why you can see people from so many countries doing well in boxing. You are saying that MMA is a niche thing like NHL that will only have athletes training it in just a few countries and is already at it's peak. That's not the case, the base for MMA are sports that are popular worldwide (Wrestling, Boxing, Judo, Kickboxing) and yet many of those countries that do well in those sports don't have MMA gyms. This sport is only going to get bigger.No it's not.
It's not about techniques...? Okay, then is it about the athletic talent pool? The meta? Popularity? Money?
I don't care about money or popularity necessarily, but the UFC is obviously legitimate in those two areas despite all the fighter pay stuff. What matters is technique, meta, talent pool.
Clearly the training, skills, talent pool, meta --- have all increased dramatically since 1993-2000. Now can you seriously tell me that they've increased dramatically from 2015-2020 present day? No they haven't. There have been colossal leaps in the sport and they mainly occurred between 1993-2009 roughly in different increments.
As to your situation...there's little to no relevance there. You have no MMA gyms in the 4th biggest city in Argentina. Okay. Your country cares about soccer and that's it, everything else is niche. I'm generalizing and I'm not expert but I'm pretty close enough to right there. Are there tons of Football (NFL), NHL (hockey), NBA (basketball), MLB (baseball) facilities and stadiums/fields there? Are tons of people playing that in Argentina? No they aren't.
Argentina in this case is sort of a strawman. It has no bearing or reflection upon the sport of MMA (generally) just as it obviously doesn't for the NFL or NHL, or really for basketball or baseball (outside of few guys like Manu Ginobilli for ex)
No offense but Argentina is next to irrelevant anyway. It's not like every country in the world is going to be a powerhouse and produce athletes for each specific sport. The only country that does that is the US basically, and they struggle for soccer/futbol and still have tons of imports by default in other sports.
Also don't be so quick to dismiss other countries. That is such an american stereotype lol. Mayweather is the best boxer of the last generation and his toughest fight was against an argentinian. If we can do well in boxing, there is no reason to think that we can't do well in a similar combat sport if in the future we have as many MMA gyms as we have boxing gyms now. But the point wasn't about just my country, many countries are not involved yet that have a big history in combat sports (mexico, thailand, iran, philipines, france, etc...). No need to shit in Argentina to dimiss the point, I know we are not giants or anything, but there are many other countries outside the US that could do well if their athletes start training MMA.
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