Maoshan

(Props: Fightlinker)

One thing I miss about the old days of MMA was the martial arts purists who claimed that kung fu/taekwondo/karate/other very specific martial art that they trained in was better than MMA, only they couldn't prove it because their styles were too deadly/illegal/would make your heart explode inside your chest. Good thing this feud has erupted between Iron Ring's "Maoshan" and Nick "The Goat" Thompson.

The above video is an answer to Thompson's challenge. What I'd like us to focus on here is how lazily and predictably done it is. You find this out right away when they refer to Thompson as "The Bitch Goat". Really? The guy gives you a head start by being nicknamed "The Goat" and the best thing you can think of is to add the word bitch?

I also wonder about Maoshan's assertions that a) most MMA fighters are, like Thompson, hopelessly unskilled, and b) he can't participate in the challenge match because he lives in the hood and doesn't have $40,000.

I'm no economist, but I'd think that if I were a poor person who knew beyond all doubt that I was a better fighter than the losers making money as MMA fighters (except Rampage and Anderson Silva), I might do whatever it took to tone down my deadly killing moves just enough to make some cash as a fighter. Then again, I guess once your body is a killing machine, as this guy's clearly is, there's just no turning it off.