Well 1st of all i think that UFC and MMA does involve highly skilled Mixed Martial arts but more than half the fighters in the UFC are not martial artists and not fighters.
Like you take for example Lyoto Machida he is both a fighter and a True Martial Artist, he was trained in the arts of Karate PROPERLEY at the age of 3 onwards and later trained in BJJ and Sumo, he was never some college athlete that was good at wrestling or some football player that thought they were big enough to get into fighting.
Lyoto Machida is a true martial artist, So is Anderson Silva, So is Shogun Rua, So is Fedor Emelianenko.
Then you have the Fighters of the sport that have trianed in many areas of the sport but never fully mastered elements of it and become masters in them like Lyoto is with Karate or Fedor is with Sambo fighters like this are Rampage Jackson,Forrest Griffin ect.
With all that said i respect all their fighting styl** and techniques and they are all Mixed Martail Artists.
However i know i am going to get booood for this by some people but the people in MMA that just Wrestle to get to the top are not true MMA fighters, fighters that come to mind are Rashad Evans, in his last to fights he has one a descision by essentially taking his opponent to the ground and hugging them for 5 minutes each round. This does not take much skill just Athleticism and i know its a part of the MMA system but when wrestlers take their opponents to the ground and just do nothing with them its disgraceful.
With all that said i just want to say i have been a devote lover of the sport and i'm a hardcore fan i have watched MMA since 1998 and tho the UFC is awesome i preferred Pride in some ways.
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