ChrisHein

Funny, I've fought, I've been hurt, nothing too bad, but it wasn't fun. I've seen plenty of my friends hurt fairly badly, but the physical pain isn't the bad part of sport fighting.

The bad part is the stress before the fight. Depending on the person/situation it can also be the stress of losing the fight. And those things are present in all sporting events. Just because some 15 year old gymnast isn't made to look ugly after her event, doesn't mean she's not going through the hard part of the competition.

It's funny that people can feel so bad simply watching someone else do something. So bad that they don't want them to do it. The fighters don't care about the blood and pain, that's not the problem. The mental factors are the issue. Those mental factors would likely be even worse if they weren't allowed to compete at all. There are no victims in this sort of thing, and that is the beautiful part about it.