I listen to pretty much all of the mma podcasts and Goldman’s was the only one I made a firm decision to stop listening to because I find him generally boring. It wouldn’t surprise me if he did this in order to create a stir and help his exposure. Oh what a pro wrestling thing to do

By saying when we train we have fighting on our minds? I’m not sure what they did in what you’re claiming to have experience in, but at my camps it has been working yourself hard to become the best fighter possible, which means thinking of strategies and learning what to do in situations. I’m sure all the fighters who read this site and/or have been interviewed on the show would agree.

When you get to that point, the meditation, “respect for the art” and semi-spiritual teachings of martial arts classes are not there. If you’re into that, then great. I’m not. I get pleasure out of fighting. Not going out and maiming someone, but the rush of it. Not the art and sensei teachings. I guess in your opinion I’m anti-social. Whatever.

The thing about TUF that is different from other camps is that they are competing, and therefore trash talking for the camera is featured on the show. I’m guessing that’s what you have the issue with. Fighting is part show business. If you don’t like that and think it‘s too WWF, that’s your opinion. But it’s what sells in America and we need to make money. 99.99% of guys don’t mean what they say and would feel horrible if they seriously injured someone like they might claim they’re going to do in interviews, it’s just show business to get people’s attention. Your idol Ali did it too, Eddie. Hell, he made it an artform by copying pro wrestlers “promos” in his pre-fight interviews. I’ve never had hatred for someone I’ve competed against, and I hope they didn’t have hatred for me. But for 15 minutes or less that goes out the window and it‘s survival of the fittest. And we live for that.

Secondly, you have been knocked out, but the majority of viewers have not.
I never presented the theory you refer to. By covering up the aftermath of a fight resulting in injury they do the sport an injustice by not showing how they are cared for, and showing the consequence of their actions.

Why denigrate me when you’ve validated some of Goldmans points with your comments.

You’ve overreached yourself by claiming i’m not a fighter.

I’m a martial artist have been for some time practiced judo and escrima between 10-12 tried boxing but the smell and the lack of skills at the P.A.L gym turned me off.
I’ve wrestled in high school. I’ve had a quite a few street fights out of high school all of which i was defending myself. I got the better of them all. I have fought 3 guys at once, a drunk friend of mine and i fought 4 guys bigger than us. I was attacked by 9 teenagers and ran, got a call from some buddy’s later that night, and we went out looking for them. They were arrested for breaking into a store and were saved a beating.
Started practicing Kenpo at 25 kickboxing at 26. A few years later got back into judo after training jiu jitsu from renzo gracie tapes. Trained some sambo via Yakimov with my neighbor.
I have actually armbarred a guy in a street fight. I have tapped out twice in my life when i was exhausted in the dojo after taping 4 other students then getting layed on for 3 minutes by the teacher.

I have many more stories, but you get the point.

Sometimes the best knowledge is knowing when to quit.

1. Wrestling includes no finishing, so a wrestler just controlling should be stood up as it leads to NOTHING at all.
2. Jui-Jitsu DOES include finishing, so a referee should recognize the difference between stalling and working. No, the Royce-type BJJ of an endless setup should not be allowed, but to stand up a JJ-fighter who is actively using his guard from the bottom is freaking insane, and UFC and IFL are both treading dangerous waters here.

Someone buying a UFC PPV for the first time, thinking about getting into the sport isn’t going to be forking over another 40 bucks to see two men laying on each other doing nothing for the majority of the show unless they’re homosexual.

I fully realize transitioning to a move, BJJ artists waiting for a mistake, ect, but what was O’Brien doing when he was stood up? Nothing, he was just waiting out the rounds. If you want to see that, you’ve got problems.

If UFC was really ending ground fighters, they would not have BJ Penn, Matt Serra, Matt Hughes, Jeff Monson, Hermes Franca, Tito Ortiz and Randy Couture in the main event picture for 2006 and/or coming up in 2007. It’s not their fault champions Liddell, Silva and Sylvia mostly win by KO and Cro Cop is going to be the next champion with KOs. Grapplers need to step up their stand up.