There have been hundreds of these kind of stories on the UG so I figured I would share mine. I have heard some bullshit before but this was beyond ridiculous. I was hanging out with a friend tonight and his neighbor stopped down to talk. He asked us to watch this pro wrestling tape he had. I hate wrestling but I didnt care what we watched. I mentioned that I like watching real fights and asked if he heard of the UFC. Wow did I open the flood gates. I just played along for a while just too hear how outrageoue his story was. With these kinds of people arguing is pointless.
Badass: I fought in the UFC.
Me: Was it on PPV?
Badass: NO it was in their smaller shows that draw about 30,000 people. I fought 68 times and was 68-0 with 68 knockouts.
Me: Thats impressive I guess you dont like fighting on the ground.
Badass: I am great on the ground but no one wanted to take me down because I know all the pressure points. No one could go toe to toe with me.
Me: Why didnt they ask you to fight on the PPV?
Badass: They said I was too dangerous and they didnt want anyone to get seriously hurt on national tv. Besides most of their fights are staged like wrestling and I only fight for real.
Me: Why did you stop fighting?
Badass: A Korean guy kicked me in the stomach so hard that it broke my back.
Me: Wow that guy could kick hard.
Badass: Yeah it hurt for a second but my adrenaline was pumping so hard because 40,000 people were cheering. The kick just pissed me off so I knocked him out knocking his three front teeth out.
Me: I have seen all the UFC's. Where did this one take place?
Badass: Cincinnati.
Me: The UFC has never been in Cincinnati.
Badass: It was one of their smaller shows. Its not called the UFC. I forgot the name.
Me: What weight did you fight at?
Badass: I fought at 180 but there were no weight classes so I fought guys of all sizes. I knocked a guy out that was 6'8 320 with a roundhouse kick.
That was enough for me so I just dropped the subject. A few minutes later he comes in the room with no shirt on and starts stretching. Then he starts throwing ridiculous looking kicks and punches. I couldnt help but laugh at loud. This guy was 28 years old so that made it even more ridiculous. He was so full of shit that I didnt even feel the need to call him out. I cant imagine that anyone would fall for that.
When something like this happens, you should make up a bigger lie. Tell him you are the Pride champion 69-0 all by KOs. Explain to him Pride is like the UFC only bigger.
HAHA had one like that at the fight party in the ATL last week.. this guy was a little touched by the BUD god, he claimed that he was 27-0 pro fighter with all his fights in the orient and was a DIM MAK (sp) pressure point master 3rd red dash and the kid was 23...............
I did call him out on it just to have fun............
I worked with a clown like that. He claimed he had 24 wins (undefeated of course) in MMA, but "all in Asia and Europe... no shows you've ever heard of."
He was a huge guy. Probably 6'4" and about 300lbs so no one had really questioned or challenged him. Until I came along lol. Me:"Well I follow the sport pretty closely. Tell me some of the shows you've fought in."
Him: "Uh... nothing you've heard of." Me: "Try me." Him: (getting testy) "You calling me a liar?" I told him "I'm just asking where you've fought. Just curious what promotions you've fought on or who are some of the fighters you've fought."
Other people I work with were starting to sense the tension and were catching the whiff of bullshit too, so he tried to punk me. "Maybe you want to test me?" I told him "Hell... I'll roll with you. I'm off Tues, Wed, Thurs.. This will be cool!" He said he'd let me know, but never did.
This guy claimed to have his sandan in Judo from the Kodokan and claimed that he had to go out of town to train, because he couldn't find training partners who were big enough and good enough to challenge him.
I mentioned that Bert Griggs and Jim Bacon trained at the school I trained at (both former superheavyweight Judokas who'd won national championships and had been on the US Olympic team) and suggested that he could work with them, but he said he was focusing on his muay thai now because "My grappling's already good enough" lol.
He ended up leaving not too long afterwards. I dont think I had anything to do with him leaving, but he certainly had no love for me lol.
Well I guess we all learn something from this thread. Make up a bigger lie when something like this happens. I came up with the idea and El Gaupo runs with it. It's the best solution.
Yet another similar story:
I was at a family reunion with my bride-to-be(her family). A cousin that no one had seen for about 10 years showed up, and started talking about all the martial arts training that he has done. My ears immediately perked up. We began talking, and he asked me if I knew anything about fighting. My fiance just laughed at this, as I told him that I did indeed train in Boxing and submission grappling. He then went on to tell me ho long it took him to get his black belt in his "art"(10yrs). I asked him what "art" he "studied". He told me he had a black belt in Ninjitsu. FUCKING NINJITSU! Outside of the fact that there was no way in hell that he was a "NINJA", he was way too fat to be a ninja. Im thinking to myself "How the F are you going to get your fat ass up a tree?" He told me that he won a "tournament" in Cincinnati Ohio. I didnt know there were Ninja in Cincinnati!? This was by far the funniest and most far fetched fight story that I have ever had the privilege of hearing.
ya know i havent been on the forums year in years and I'm glad I came back, I'm getting a pretty good laugh out of this. I have a few stories, theres so many bullshiters out there when it comes to this that I've encountered I can't even remember all the stories, one example: (edit: now that I think about it, if the subject of UFC came up a few times during the day [wear a FCF shirt and you should know] you would probably run into at least ONE bullshitter a day!)
Went to Vegas for Grapplers quest west 2002 and our cab driver picked us from airport and was chit chatting , asked me what I was in town for... I told him and he said, "oh yeah man!? That's cool, my friend used to be the UFC Heavyweight champ man!" , I'm like "Awesome! what was his name?", he was completely silent for about 4 seconds, thinking .... then made up some bullshit about 10 years ago, there in vegas (obviously BS since UFC was not in vegas 10 years ago) his friend won the title. Yet he still left the name of the fighter out, hahaha, what a douche.....
They're everywhere, but hey, at least its getting better and more and more people are getting educated by us everyday
I've stopped wearing anything MMA related out at night specifically because of morons that come tell me how they are either fighting in the UFC "next year" or how they "could beat those guys easily"
I had one guy, who still had some coke on his nose after his trip to the bathroom, with his flab proudly jiggling everywhere look at me and say "Gimme three weeks and I'll get in there and kill everybody."
These fools cannot be reasoned with, without making them look completely retarded.
It is far easier to keep your mouth shut and laugh at them later on.