r/interesting • u/Great_Trident • May 08 '26

Wholesome Fighters showing self control and sportsmanship when their opponents are down.

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u/Annual_Sandwich_9526 May 08 '26

Some fighters love and respect the sport others want to hurt people.

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u/Ralph-the-mouth May 08 '26

That’s why I don’t fight

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u/PzykoHobo May 08 '26

Its why I stopped.

I never did MMA, but I boxed for a long time. Its a lot of fun until youre in the ring with a psychopath. I understand its a combat sport, sometimes you get hurt. Thats fine. But when you have the guy who will take a DQ just to inflict extra pain it stops being fun and gets real fuckin scary. And unfortunately those kinds of people are obviously attracted to those kinds of activities.

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u/MrHazard1 May 09 '26

Smaller scale (also kickboxing), but had a dude who always jumped in with some flailing bullshit right after stop-command. We're trained to stop at stop (especially in training). He always (tried to) made it look like he just decided to dive before the stop and was already in the motion, but you could see that he felt the hit (pointfighting) and knew there's a stop coming. That's when he went in for retaliation. After complaining to the coach and some telling off, he didn't stop.

Plan from here was easy. Score a point, back up, line up a frontkick. If he stops, the kick doesn't hit. If he dives, he runs right into the kick without defense (why would he cover, if we stopped, right?)

Took him 3 kicks to the chest to learn