A story came up at class on Sunday in passing about a guy who was competing without arms and legs. Turns out that he's competing at a high level. His name is Kyle Maynard and while he has difficulty submitting, positionally, he's pretty darned good.
I admire his tenacity. Recently, Kyle Maynard applied to fight in a sanctioned MMA event and his application was denied.
My question is, what do you guys think? Should Kyle be allowed to compete in MMA? Below is a YouTube clip of Kyle at NAGA, another story from Bryant Gumble's show on HBO, and you can easily find lots of information on his story from Google.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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I've seen Kyle before and he's an absolute inspiration to us all!
I'm undecided if he should fight MMA but I wish him well in whatever he does. At the end of the day he must spar MMA and so knows he can do it but for some reason I feel a little uncomfortable with it.
I think with the recent tragic death of Sam Vasquez I don't know if MMA is ready for this right now.
One one hand if he does well then its obviously not only a postive thing for him, but for the sport and for disability. But on the other if he gets mauled I can just see the headlines now...
Is that slighy pompus of me? or is that just what a lot of people are thinking? As I know I've talked about this with some of the guys at my gym and they said a similar thing.
I guess either way the decision is out of our hands.
Adam Adshead - ConceptualBJJ.wordpress.com
I'm on the fence, much like you. I admire him for what he's accomplished and overcome.
I think there are actually two questions here:
1) Should he be allowed to compete?
2) Would you personally buy a ticket to watch?
...to which my answers are Sure, and Probably not.
Thank you for making me aware of such an inspirational, and wonderful athlete.
As to whether or not he should compete, I cannot make a decision there because I'm not aware of the rules, and regulations concerning that kind of tournament.
Maynard is one of those athletes I like to link to in response to somebody saying stuff like "I'm too old" or "I'm out of shape" or whatever. Easy answer is, oh yeah? Have you got problems like these three?
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Which hopefully works. Not had a chance to c&p that for a while, though. ;)
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