I can understand watching the sport, but why would you wanna train to be one? Even if you reach the top of the sport, its not that lucrative and seems pretty dangerous.
The other day I met a girl who was a friend of a friend, and when I asked her boyfriend what he did for a living he said "I'm training to be an MMA fighter". I tried my best to hold a straight face.
Now juicing up, slappin on some pro-tan, and stepping on stage in a glitter thong for hundreds of schmoes I can understand. But why MMA?
What says you Getbig?
Usually two different paths.
One, is you start early with some kind of traditional MA, and enjoy training Martial Arts, becoming more competitive as you grow and want to test your skills against others. It's like, wow i can finally make some money on something i enjoy and love doing.
Two, you have trained other physical sports earlier and feel you are both strong and tough enough to make an impact. You may not have any TMA-background, but you are no stranger to getting physical/fighting in general, so you give it a try to make some money, and you get to hurt people legally.
It's mostly either those two, either you have a background or you feel you are a physical specimen (tough,strong etc) that can make an impact, or you just plain like to hurt people/like to bang but don't want to get busted doing it.
Some "fighters" though, it feels like they're doing it just because they don't cut it on the football-field etc, easy money.
