Originally Posted by TTEscrima

The fans here have no more to do with what the pro's do in the ring than the face painted fans at the superbowl have to do with what happens on the field.

But then that's the whole point, all you usually hear is the opinions of a bunch of fans who have never fought a pro mma match in their lives nor served in the military yet consider themselves the be all end all of knowledge on the subject of SD, and military combatives... all based on opinions formulated by watching what their favorite athletes do during sporting events. Mind you none of them punch like Tyson or grapple like a Gracie, but they'll quickly tell you how your RBSD won't stack up to the standards of the Pro MMA fighter.

I'd wager the ones doing the most smack talking haven't got 1 second of actual personal experience to base their opinions on. So in essence the only people smearing the MMA fans reputation is the MMA fans themselves when they make baseless arguments without an ANY experience from which to base their extremely vocal arguments upon.