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nielmag
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Home Intruder in UFC Fighter’s home

This is very eye opening. This gentleman not to long ago challenged for the UFCs Light Heavyweight championship vs Jon Bones Jones.  Definitely makes a clear distinction between consensual fighting vs self protection. Read his take on what happenned

https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/29004021/ufc-anthony-smith-fights-home-intruder-man-charged-criminal-trespass

Zach Zinn
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nielmag wrote:

This is very eye opening. This gentleman not to long ago challenged for the UFCs Light Heavyweight championship vs Jon Bones Jones.  Definitely makes a clear distinction between consensual fighting vs self protection. Read his take on what happenned

https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/29004021/ufc-anthony-smith-fights-home-intruder-man-charged-criminal-trespass

Violence is simply different from fighting. Add in mental health and substance abuse issues and you are dealing wtih serious danger, ethical questions, and someone who just might not react "normally" to anything you do. Sometimes I think we don't realize just how much of people's reactions are a trained response, we might come across someone like this, who can't be "beat down" because that category just doesn't even exist for him.

It's also worth noting that when you are attacked you are a victim, even if you end up "winning" (which just means surviving), you will know and feel that you are a victim, that feeling of powerlesness and fear is a much more signficant thing to deal with in many cases than are physical skills in my experience.

We simply aren't quite the same people once we are attacked that we are in the dojo, gym etc. It sounds like this was a significant emotional shock to him.