MMA Here to Stay!

Mixed martial arts is a sport in a league of its own. What I really love about MMA is the fact that “everything counts”, you can grapple, punch, clinch, take people down and throw people around. I remember back in the day when I used to wrestle, whenever I lost I would rationalize that “If it was a real fight I could have beaten that guy up”.
None of that in MMA, YOU get to decide where you want to take the fight and what your game plan is, its just a matter of which guy has the strongest will and skill set. As the saying about MMA goes “As real as it gets”, there is no room for taking a victim role here and find excuses, if you lost you should have trained harder.
I think over the next 10 years we will see a new breed of MMA fighters, these are going to be so well rounded that it is scary. They will have actually trained for the sport of MMA for 10 years+ and won’t just be a wrestler, boxer, karate ka, bjj or thai boxer who made the switch over to MMA.
I think the closest we can come to see how MMA fighters are going to be in 10 years is to take a look at GSP. The French Canadian can out wrestle most base wrestlers in the UFC and that’s even without having wrestled through his teenage years.
His striking his solid (Even though he doesn’t like to stand up that much anymore) and his jiu jitsu is black belt level, a guy like that is really scary since you have no idea where to take the fight. Even though his stand up is not the same level as some of the world class strikers like Anderson Silva, his wrestling and take downs will nullify a lot of those world class striker’s game as they will constantly have to wary of the take down.
MMA has been my passion for over 10 years now and the development I have seen has just been crazy, you can get all sorts of new training gear, MMA clothing, special MMA gloves and so on. It just warms my heart to see this development, so all of us in the MMA community let’s stay united and represent the sport we love in the best way possible and maybe, just maybe, break down some of those stereotypical pictures of MMA in the media!