btw- i never meant to imply that Gene was acting like that, it's what mma implies these days - dudes with tons of tats, faux hawks, t-shirts 2 sizes too small, and an obsession for barbed wire, pitbulls, skulls, and cr@ppy music.
I'd be a lot cooler with the whole mma thing if it were taking the other combat sports along for the ride instead of trying to eclipse them. How cool would it be to go to an mma event and see boxing, muay thai, san shou, judo, and/or sambo matches on the undercard?