Not everyone is a cage fighter.... so what?

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ah, but in a reall MMA place they are always on the fringe because they can't beat anyone in rolling or sparring and they never actually fight

Did you really just say in a "real" MMA place. . . like in "authentic". . .I knew it, you really do moonlight as Hardwork108! I knew you were trolling yourself.

Mediocrity is not on the fringe when everyone is mediocre.
The top, what? maybe 5% of any given gym has any real talent or chance of even making a decent amateur (and that's a generous assessment). Any sport or human endeavor measures out this way. It is not so much that "not everyone is a cage fighter" it's more like "not everyone can be a cage fighter even and especially people who want to be cage fighters"

in many TCMA places, the LARP'er is raised to a high level and the entire program "pats him on the back" in his dillusions

I am certainly not going to dispute this, I just wanted to point out that the delusion exists on both sides. Everyone makes regrettable sartorial decisions at some point.