Lol @ artifically enhanced. What is or isn't "artificial" is all arbitrary. At the end of the day it was still Jon Jones the human being whoopin everyone's ass. Nothing artificial about that. What he did to prepare himself to be such a ass whoopin human being is kind of irrelevant. Again, you are choosing to feel gutted based on some arbitrary and willfully blind construct you've built in your head. You don't have to feel that way. Supplements these days have all kinds of shit in them, and they're legal. Some fighters can't afford those supplements. Artificial??
Lots of MMA fighters clearly trained tough, had a very strict regimen, ate everything their body needed and rested tons. I think they are all artificially stronger than they should be if they didnt do all that and should be banned from all fighting sport organisation. Anyone doing more than pilate training and being skinny lean are roided out brutes that cheats people out of the fair wins they should have had!
This forum is big on stuff like: history (kinda obvious why), nationalism, gaming (duh), firearms (na is dead so thats fixed), violence (ufc among other stuff), bodybuilding, naked chicks. [...] It is time to at least consider growing up a bit.
Considering any of these things are not mature hobbies after a certain age makes me fear for your testosterone level. And no, not only men have testosterone, so your androgynous-self should be concerned.
And you're wrong. Amatuer/olympic boxing is fine, practiced it for a few months, it's pretty harmless. Hard to get hurt when you're wearing helmet. Professional boxing I consider almost equally retarded as mma.
MMA is as harmless as any other fighting sport, unless you train in a 100% hardcore pro fighters club? You can take a year long course of MMA in any normal club and they will not make you bleed, nor break your bones even once. What you see on TV are competitions, unless you want to prepare for a competition you dont train for a competition, so you dont face competition-like injuries (unless you just like hardcore sparring). The worst thing that your coach want is to injure you in training.
And on the gladiator topic, yes MMA has some similarities compared to our modern perspective: it can be entertaining to watch, yet is violent. The comparison stops here because there is no death included, and everyone is here on their free will