So, when you are about to fight someone, do you specify no armbars? How about choke holds? Kicks? If someone is dumb enough to get in a streetfight to start with, I have no sympathy for them if their opponent doesn't ascribe to all these so called "unwritten rules."
Well, like I said, there really isn't a line since it's an illegal activity. No one in a streetfight is under any obligation to follow any particular rules. And you have defined the rules of streetfight to what suits you. I figure that if an armbar can end a fight, then by all means go for it. It's a tactical move that isn't unfair, in my opinion.
There is no code in street fighting. If you think there is, you're bound to get knocked the **** out the first time you fight anyone worth a damn. There aren't many things worth fighting for in general outside of combat sports, but if you're going to, not being the guy who got ****ed up is all that matters.
So, just to be clear, you're saying that in a streetfight a guy should stick to throwing punches only? If he goes beyond that, its akin to shooting a guy with a guy. That's a rather silly analogy.
And you can also go to jail for punching a guy in the face. Hec, you could cause him serious damage that goes beyond anything an armbar could do. The bottom line is that if you get into a streetfight, don't assume there is a unwritten honor that must be followed. It's an illegal activity, and you better be prepared for anything.
You seem to be contradicting yourself. At one point you say that the only honorable thing to do in a streetfight is to throw punches, and anything else is wrong and dishonorable. Yet, you seem to agree now that using an armbar is OK. Can you clarify your position?
UFC is a very hard sports, as competetive as boxing cause your skills have to be very good to compete in there, but it is not as exciting as boxing, never will be, and plus a sport with a single owner will be never be as big as its potential really is but again, it will never be as big as boxing, the comparison is stupid by the way,
Anyone who thinks a street fight can end with a punch in the face suffers from the same mentality of a boxer who thinks they could knock everybody out ..And anyone who thinks that MMA is nothing more than guys hugging each other are the one who are 2 steps closer to leaving the closet !
It's not over that fast if both are good. Best fight I ever saw I wasn't a part of, but it was two guys who were dead tough going at it for what felt like ten minutes, but was probably more like three to five. There were a lot of punches, kicks, slams... everything in the vicinity got smashed including a thick hardwood table.... It eventually ended when the one guy went down and got booted in the face multiple times by the other guy who was leaning against the wall, breathing heavy. Steeltoe boots in the face. The tendrils or whatever from the guy's nose were hanging out. All in all, there were no rules, and it wasn't over after a few punches at all. If that's how you think it goes, you haven't seen a real fight.
Most gay people notice gay things in a competitive sport !! Your right but most street fights end on the ground if it didn't finish w/that punch to the face !
I'm starting to think this might be the case. In all my years of watching boxing, I've never seen clinches as homoeroctically charged man hugs! I suppose someone could see them that way if they really wanted to. If they do, then they're obviously watching the sport for very different reasons than the rest of us. But, I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that very few boxers (or MMA fighters) find anything sexual or erotic about the close contact. It's call context people!
