Let's now analyze all the unprecedented and scary extracurriculars, played before and after the game, wishing I was not the only one who sounds so dumb to his ears. And I explain.

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  • Mayweather Vs McGregor in the MMA cage

"McGregor, however, had the courage to enter the ring, while Mayweather did not have it, but even if he did, he would not go around." This, but not so sophisticated, was written by "coaches" of our area. In other words, we compare our sports in terms of sidewalk wood. I have exhausted this topic in an older article that anyone can see here.

If, for example, Conor participated in a wrestling match, Judo, grappling, Bjj, etc. and lost from a black belt, would the argument stand that if he entered the cage the black belt would eat wood? Do we train darts or athletes?

Also, to see young children just falling apart, athletes who compete, bleed and hurt but stand up, as well as sports with a huge history and depth, while at the same time these same children, have not yet toiled for anything, have not achieve nothing, and have partial or complete ignorance, is utterly disturbing.

Each person has their own peculiarities and personal talents and obviously we do not all do everything. A very good MMA athlete may never succeed in becoming a good boxer and vice versa. They do not fit into the scales because they are simply dissimilar. The only person who sees a common denominator is the one who distinguishes in them only punches and kicks. In fact, if this person is also a "Teacher", there is a problem.

Mayweather is 41 and obviously could not get into the ground art and other education process right now that would require such a transition. A younger boxer could do it with as much success as Boxing is a great weapon (see Holly Holm). However, the dedication required to become a champion, let alone a living legend of the sport, does not allow this transition and it is stupid to be called by people in the field and dangerous to be called "Teachers".

Still, I'm sure he would have taken it seriously if they had given him about ten times as much money as he did in his highest paid match in his own sport, as happened with Conor.

  •  Commerciality and general consequences

It is a fact that apart from the purely competitive part, the commercial success of the event is great and it aroused the interest even of people who were very far from martial arts until recently. But can this in itself be considered positive?

To answer this, we must see what we expect as an offer from sport to society, that is, to all of us who make it up. Does it make sense to say that people will come to sports because of this commercial success? That alone is not enough.

Fighting sports, like everything in life are not good or bad by themselves, we give them the positive sign, depending on the management we do and the energy we convey to them. If the purpose of sport is not to contribute to the civilization of society, what is the benefit of engaging young people, apart from our cheap economy?

Consequently, what is the benefit if the standards that are projected are of the high athletic level of Floyd and Conor, but with the so low in values ​​level of personality that distinguishes them, having as their flag the "purpose sanctifies the means" (where purpose see money, glory);

So respectively the people who were involved in the struggle and the way they dealt with it was unprecedented. There was a terrifying familiarity with verbal and physical violence, especially from young people (and of course I'm not referring to the fighting part), following the dance that others set up around this festival, as if hypnotized.

The many examples of athletes who reached the top and collapsed overnight (see Ronda Rousey and many more) do not seem to exemplify anyone running to identify with the next Mayweather and McGregor paper idol who calls himself a god, legend or king ( of boxing!).

  • In conclusion

So the references to how many laps Conor endured, if he won the first laps, if he landed more hits than Pacquiao or respectively how many minutes Floyd would endure in the cage, etc. is simply the argument of those who were not happy with this result. They put aside the arguments that they wanted Conor a winner and found the alibi that would make them feel less wrong than they were.

Commonly a community of martial arts, which instead of questioning what it knows, consolidates the ideas it already has as many or as few (most of the time) as they are. A small "I" who becomes a larger associate of successes that do not belong to him and does everything to avoid self-criticism. Commonly our opadiliki knocks on the door and we look smiling τικά Pass us by!

 

P.S The phenomenon of baptizing athletes alone as gods, legends or kings this year made its appearance in the Greek battlefield dynamic, proof of the contagiousness of the thing.

 

Vassilis Oikonomou

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