Quote Originally Posted by Fnord
There is too much money at stake for them to be a no-show if it was an optimal way to fight someone 1 v 1 with little or no rules.
I dont think thats fair. These are the people who live in the middle of fucking nowhere who stand there and punch a wall for two hours a day, and then move over a little and slam their heads into sand bags for two hours a day, and then hang themselves from cloth nooses to strengthen their neck muscles.

The true masters just aren't interested in monetary rewards and fame and that sort of thing. They don't even do competitions with each other because they arent interesting in seeing who is better even in their own little dojos.

I'm not familiar with their ground style, if they really have any. I'm not a MMA fan, just saw the clip I linked and then a segment from a national geographic special on them which was on the "you might also like" or whatever list.

I do know that in the early UCF the real artsy fartsy martial artists got destroyed by the grapplers, though.