Christmas is the greatest celebration of love and friendship each year. And wishes for love and friendship belong on a fighting forum because love and friendship are born from aggression and fighting, and would not exist without them.
Best-selling author and UGer Sam Sheridan explains, based on research from Conrad Lorenz, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
“Those that fight each other harder do better,” writes Sheridan. “Lorenz takes interspecies aggression several steps further. He talks about geese and says that two furiously aggressive animals must bond and live together in a small space, all without weakening intra-species aggression. They have evolved inhibitors, behavior-changing devices, that turns the aggression they normally feel toward others of their species into something else when they mate. The same thing, although in a more complex way takes place among men and women of the same tribe of family, bound together for increased success against the outside world. Lorenz writes that friendship is found only in animals with “highly developed intra-species aggression,” and goes on to say that the more aggressive the animal, the deeper the friendship. The ability to love and form bonds has evolved as a way to temper aggression, to turn it into something more powerful when defending hearth and home. Friendship and love are essentially evolutionary by-products of aggression. Men and women who form these deep bonds – who evolved ways to mitigate interspecies aggression – have great success in passing along their genes.
“That’s the secret, it’s all about love.”
No fighting, no love. So this is a perfect day to send love and good wishes to the fight world.
Merry Christmas Underground, from TUF 26 newbs to the 2001ers.
Merry Christmas to all, from those of us in the comfortable West, to shootfighter Eddie Gombye in Uganda.
Merry Christmas Justin The Big Pygmy Wren, who gave up his gifts for others, today and for now many years.
Merry Christmas Conor McGregor and thanks for all the eyes.
Merry Christmas professional fighters and Merry Christmas ammys. You are in my heart. And you are in my records. If your official record is wrong, email stats@mixedmartialarts.com and we are on it.
Merry Christmas to the trolls, new and old. DonBreakYourArmi where is your original self?
Merry Christmas big FOX and FOX Sports 1 and thanks for all the free tv.
Merry Christmas Lorenzo Fertitta. Your timing is impeccable.
Merry Christmas to those of you who had the choice between paying for health insurance or being on the mat, and getting ground into the ground won.
Merry Christmas to everyone genuinely working to solve our sports issues: CTE, the culture of extreme weight cutting, PEDs, the high injury rate, and an equitable distribution of revenue across the sport.
Have a Merry Christmas all (or Wanderlei Silva will stomp you 🙂
And we’ll close with this classic Christmas story …
