Fighters win and lose fights based on confidence. That's well established. You can be psyched out, psyche YOUSELF out, be beat down (No pun intended Mr. Gross and Mr. DeSantos) in the media, you can be beat down by your family life. Confidence is a fragile thing at best and this is a thing that a fighter doesn't like to mess with.
That being said, the way people reply to threads on SHerdog is pathetic. We are ACTUAL FANS of MMA and we treat our heroes and our contemporaroes like the dirt under our feet on these forums. And why? Because any two-bit moron can be a "bigshot" for one brief shining moment in their otherwise useless lives by telling someone else that they're idiots, or pussies or noobs or washed up, or one-dimensional etc.
And instead of the Mods reallizing that this is BAD FOR MMA (and not just bad for the forum), they let favourites get away with this behaviour. WHy do I say they are favourites? Well they must be since the same arses pollute the forum every time.
When a fighter sees the way OTHER FANS are treated on here (Quite often ripped to shreds),
why in thne world would they themselves want to receive the same punishment? It's not like they need another challenge to their confidence from some no-talent hack who's never seen the inside of an MMA club, studio,dojo etc.
Mods, please consider that this is really bad for the sport we love and the fighters that we admire.
