Eventually one gets tired of fighting battles, kickin' but, winning when it involves another losing. It's a young man's game, preoccupation... and there has all ways been much more to IMA than who's best. To MMA? There's nothing else. MMA for health? long life? self development? that's a joke, right? It's always about who's the 'best', technically, martially, and nothing more. Someday the @ss-kicker gets old... and time comes calling...then IMA is still there, real and inside you, and you don't need an 'opponent' to prove its value. MMA when you're old?...a bunch of snapshots on the wall, of what I did back when I was young..