Bill Wallace...Jealous Much?

[oldman34]

This months Black Belt Magazine has an article in it by Bill "Superfoot" Wallace. Now we all know that in his day he was the r34l d34l. No one is arguing that.
Yet , his latest piece makes him sound somewhat jealous that his fame is gone and the new breed on Martial Arts is here...MMA.

Here are some excerpts from the article...

I dont really like watching the events because the bouts have very little to do with the martial arts. If MMA is truly the combat sport of the future, we martial artists are a hurtin'.

Yeah because Kickboxing isnt a MA right Bill?

Who are these brawlers and wrestlers? They're people who dont have any money to pay for instruction, for one thing. They just want to go out and fight. Before a bout, they love to proclaim "I'm bad, I'm going to beat this guy. This fight wont last a minute." Then they get knocked out becasue they dont know what they are doing.

Yep, Chuck Lidell is broke, I hope Randy is doing okay money wise too. We all know that nobody ever got knocked out in KB right Bill? If they did then that means they dont know what they are doing. Maybe thats how you won so many fights....the guys you KO'ed didnt know what they were doing.
I like how he says "bout" instead of "fight".

......There are exceptions like George St. Pierre, but how many other guys can kick? A few fighters are martial artists, but most just come from a grappling background. Look at Matt Hughes, he's a wrestler who learned some punches, submission holds and so forth. he didnt set out as a martial artist

You can say that again Billy Boy....wrestling isnt a martial art.....right?....right?

Hopefully MMA has run its course and will start to shrink. Many of the AMrtial Artists I meet at seminars think the same way I do. They know how much time they spend perfecting their punches and kicks, then look at MMA guys and can tell that they arent practicing that much. Study their punching techniques and you'll see what I mean. Often they look like they're bottom fisting a bag instead of throwing jabs, crosses, hooks, and uppercuts.

Those soccer moms at the Seminars sure know what they are talking about dont they? MMA guys never train, or condition their bodies. Any weekend TKDoer can outlast them in a real fight right?
Sloppy punches...man, its a wonder that they ever knock anybody out isnt it Bill? Remember...they talk tough and then get knocked out? If their technique is so sloppy how does that ever happen?
The we have the bottom fisting....I sure hope he doesnt mean what I think he means. I have some fisting porn around here somewhere. None with bottoms in it though. Feel free to post it if you have it. Just do it in LLL.

I keep asking myself how two boxers can pound the crap out of each other for twelve rounds without anybody getting knocked down, while an MMA guy can hit his opponent with a straight right and drop him-even though it doesnt look that strong.

Maybe the boxers spend to much time training jabs, crosses, hooks, and uppercuts.

Here he wraps things up for us morons in the room.

Right now Karate schools aren't doing as well as in the past, but I think things will turn around soon because we offer a great service to society.....

Maybe because people realise that they are being fleeced? Maybe Bill needs the money to train?

......We get people to learn something that can actually save their lives, and thats the beauty of martial arts. Flexibility, strength and agility are important in almost everything we do, including our efforts to regulate our stress levels......

MMA is no good outside the ring. I wish I had known that before I wasted my time cross training.
At least TKD regulates my stress level right Bill? LOL

......To thrive, all of us must be able to change. No matter what happens, thats one thing we're positive of: Change will come. I only hope its change for the good

Change did come Bill. Its called MMA.

[JohnnyCache]

Funny, bill didn't hate the early UFCs so much he wouldn't take money to commentate at them alongside Don Wilson.


Bill, if you're reading, that's pretty damn hypocritical.

[Matt W.]

What a tool. ...From someone who fought in FCR. ...Which, today, is about the weakest form/ruleset of kickboxing extant.

[JohnnyCache]

Do you have a link to the interview?

[Gezere]

My word Bill is a hypocrite. Last time I saw in OK he was talking about how great the UFC was for MA. Very disapointing.

[Teh El Macho]

Bill Wallace == S.O.R.E L.O.S.E.R

Maybe he's going senile, I dunno.

[Beezer]

I read the Bill Wallace article, too, and I was very disappointed. I always liked "Superfoot" and thought he was onpoint on what he talked about. Now, he seems way out of touch and bitter. The great ones go with change, not, cling to outdated ideas that no longer work. Bummer.

[Vorpal]

I think its the realization that most of his achievements in MA are looked at as somewhat irrelevant given the new paradigm.

[oldman34]

Do you have a link to the interview?

No, there isnt a link. Sorry. I wish there was.
I can scan the article and then post it , or just type the whole thing out. I hit the majority of it.

If you get the chance to go by a bookstore the article is on page 60. Its this months "Full Contact" column and is titled "Does MMA have a future?" Wallace writes the column each month.

[Holy Moment]

Bill Wallace started hating on the UFC right after he finished announcing UFC 1. People think he started writing anti-UFC articles for BB the night he got home.

From what I've read, Wallace was supposed to fight in the first UFC. I think he realized that getting his ass kicked would be bad for his business.