Not a fan of how this article buries the lead. The most important part comes in the last two paragraphs. This is two articles at once, the second one being, “ATTN Fighters: Unionize”, which is much more interesting than the message of the first 80% of the article: “many fighters are strange.”

This is always a funny discussion topic because in my experience people who train combat sports are more laid back, less ego driven and less likely to be flippant or disrespectful than people who don’t train any type of self defense. But when I see it discussed by people who don’t train they single out professionals…

‘Rogan’s highly successful podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, features the host conjecturing about everything from the JFK assassination to the drug DMT opening up humanity’s “third eye”’

I spent a few days with a friend their partner who was an mma fighter. They lived in an anarachist community. he was a poet in a community of gender fluidity lgbt culture and activism. Very kind and warm guy. Only other mma guy I’ve come across was super well read and part of a fringe culture/arts community. Bless the…

Been involved in the sport since 2005. Plenty of sane, passive people. How many fighters end up in the kind of trouble NFL players (for example) end up in?