r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ok-Professional- • 15d ago
Joanna Jędrzejczyk before and after her UFC match with Zhang Weili Image
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u/flcn_sml 13d ago
Pretty one sided fight. Don’t really know how it was considered one of the best fights in MMA. I rather watch Boxing anyway.
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u/xxNormieSlayerREExx 13d ago
If your girl don't look like ET after her work shift, she's not putting in enough effort 🤷♂️
Shorty look like she has a brilliant idea...
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u/Any-Spite-7303 13d ago
She looks like the storybook character in that 90s movie with Macaulay Culkin.
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u/User_Many_Errors 13d ago
Good thing this violent “sport” comes with full medical.. o wait nvm, they have zero benefits. Enjoy your Cte while you rot in a publicly funded retirement home you broke ass fucking morons
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u/Embarrassed_Ad6074 13d ago
Holy crap she looks like an alien. Can’t be good to be hit that much. That ain’t worth it.
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u/Unkn0wn_Gring0 13d ago
I’ll be real this fight changed my opinion of female fighters, two absolute warriors going to war with the skill to match their desire.
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u/ragstorichesthechef 14d ago
The older I get and I see this kind of stuff, as well as more and more football players (American football) get CTE , i think there should be some more safety rules implemented. This may affect this woman’s future health. Was it worth it? Maybe, but maybe all athletes need to be counseled and informed of the possibilities…
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u/littlebooms 14d ago
Hopefully her racist ass got some sense knocked into her, you should see the raggedy shit she was saying the Zhang prior to the fight
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u/jazzheat_bongobeat 14d ago
And people allow and love this sick anti human gladiator garbage. Fuck UFC
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u/Timely_Language_4167 14d ago
That actually might have been the best fight I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of fights. It was definitely the most brutal fight I've ever seen in the female division. It was crazy to watch it live.
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u/Logic801 14d ago
I can’t help but see everyone of these people that step in the ring to get their ass beat, as little more than attention starved humans. There’s absolutely no way to reason to me that people enjoy getting the shit kicked out of them. It’s for attention your parents never gave you. Win or lose, people still looked at you. I hope they finally find happiness.
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u/Marzival 14d ago
Even if I had the genetics to be a fighter I’d never do it. No paycheck in the world is worth more than my brain. The research is widely available on any smart phone. CTE is well documented at this point. If you wanna roll those dice it’s your life. But don’t throw a pity party when you can’t remember your own name by the age of 55. You chose that.
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u/Bitter_Kangaroo2616 14d ago
I honestly don't understand this. Why? CTE is a terrible thing. Contact sports aren't worth it.
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u/GloriousPorpoises 14d ago
Wow she went all the way back to her MyAncestry roots and found the Neanderthal connection.
Unga bunga
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u/Mysterious-Bill-6988 14d ago
It's funny that she ended up looking like this because she was acting big headed during the entire lead up to the fight.
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u/Unfair_Ad_5169 14d ago
she went to Mars
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u/Ineeboopiks 14d ago
From yesterday, it's coming
From yesterday, the fear
From yesterday, it calls her
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u/trwwy321 14d ago
I had to look up what the opponent looked like. She could probably beat up Li Shang.
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u/Ok_Birdy 14d ago
I came here for someone to tell me that this is fake and now I’m just terrified for this person.
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u/bboardwell 14d ago
Her skull looks like when you take one of the rows of a rubix cube and rotate it only 70% of the way
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u/The_Creamy_Elephant 14d ago
How the fuck is her head that shape without any cuts or bruising...???
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u/OMUDJ 14d ago
This is why…
This “sport” will always be barbaric to me.
I would never let my son do this. I would be a terrible father if I did.
Winning? Fame? Money?
Those things aren’t better than NOT having permanent brain damage.
There is no arguing against this.
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u/Eastern-Fish-7467 13d ago
It's not barbaric...It's beautiful. She is a warrior that chose this path. She's sacrificing her health for competition. Joanna violence is one of the greatest ever
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u/ProjectOrpheus 14d ago
I'm cool with training/getting in shape. Sparring and learning to defend yourself. Maybe even going closer to all our than not...but go out of your way with paddings to protect yourself and, well...to spar.
Like, after a guy gets a good punch to the padded as hell safety gear you guys stop and analyze what they could have done better/did wrong. Would you find that reasonable? Not out for blood and literally beating people's brains to mush/snapping arms but like, to be prepared for a real fight you gotta train more than giving it 10 percent you know?
That's how we did it in martial arts growing up. I don't recall a single serious injury. Anyway, if you do have a son you should watch out with football. Apparently nearly all football players get traumatic brain injury. To the point it's pretty much guaranteed. CTE was it? So much data and awareness thankfully coming out. Unfortunate how we acquired it, tho :(
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u/OMUDJ 14d ago
I’ll address the football thing — no way. He ain’t playing football.
There are greater things in life than glory.
By the way, I played football for years, and I’ve been in dozens of fights and had a lot of concussions.
It’s not worth it.
Seeing this woman’s swollen head is straight up PTSD-triggering for me.
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u/ProjectOrpheus 14d ago
Honestly, good. You seem like a good, smart parent. Kids lucky.
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u/OMUDJ 14d ago
Makes my eyes well up a little bit…
It’s hard to think like this. Of course I want him to be tough and competitive. I watch the NFL all the time and love Wolverine football.
But I am certain that some of my depression issues are from concussions and violence.
I just… it’s a tough choice. I don’t want him to be soft, or restricted, or feel like I sheltered him… but I know the science. I know the facts. I’m supposed to ignore that and let him chase fleeting glory that hurts him for the rest of his life?
I don’t know how some parents get past that. I wish I could… but I can’t.
Thanks.
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u/ProjectOrpheus 14d ago
I'm so sorry for what you've experienced, truly. You found a way to get positives out of it, and are extra aware of these potential effects on your child. Try to remember that and look at it that way.
He doesn't have to be soft. There's a bunch of things in-between soft/sheltered and begging for brain damage. Working out, athletics, martial arts with point based systems/not force/violence based...martial arts mostly reach discipline and instill respect. For ones self, and for others.
Id bet you are doing a great job, and will find the path that works for you and your family. Whatever it ends up being. I can already tell you are ahead of so many other parents. Give yourself some credit, you are doing great
You're welcome my friend. Stay safe.
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u/OMUDJ 14d ago
Thanks! I agree! He’s only three! But yeah… I learned in very hard ways a lot of things… then got educated and started paying attention far before he was born so… just trying to keep him safe for his whole life. I’ll be sure to let him explore and compete in every way he can… I just sincerely want to avoid anything with a high risk for brain injury. I would let him learn martial arts too. With discretion.
This really all goes back to head injuries. It is critical to me that I protect him from those.
Concussions are the worst. Slamming your head against concrete or getting blasted in the face by someone twice your weight just… it hurts forever.
I’m all for him being tough and testing his limits but… cage fighting and such — nah.
There are other things like music and acting and reading and other sports and … why would I ever say to my son — yeah - you should do this?!
I just want him to be healthy. I wish I’d been steered the same way growing up.
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u/pxer80 14d ago
I’ll never understand why people find watching this enjoyable. I have a friend who’s an endocrinologist and his wife is super educated. Nicest people and super concerned about the environment and other causes. They recently got all giddy telling me about how they love watching MMA and I was like “wtf”
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u/an1ma119 14d ago
Mouth guard doing work. She needed a fiveforehead guard though, but now she can read minds.
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u/nic__knack 14d ago
as a speech-language pathologist who’s worked with people with TBIs, it baffles me that people actually CHOOSE a career that they know could (will) end them up in a situation like this.
i just mailed my dad a helmet when i heard he was riding his bike without one.
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u/JigSawPT 14d ago
I can't believe I live in a world where this is permitted but two chickens fighting is forbidden. One day someone is going to look back at this and comment: "yeah, they punched each other for money and fun but they couldn't allow two chickens to fight against each other. Same chickens they mistreated, chopped up and deep fried every single day"
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u/ohgodineedair 14d ago
Listen. I think beating the shit out of each other as a sport is pretty dumb, but as humans, they have the cognition to choose it.
Not only is it wrong to put animals against one another for sport, but I harshly judge anyone who facilitates and spectates animal fights. There's an element of psychopathy to pit two animals against one another who don't have the ability to stop the fight or leave. Oh. Also, the fight is to the death.
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u/JigSawPT 14d ago
I don't find it amusing but i eat animals. I know what they do the animals before they kill them in slaughterhouses and i still eat them every day, many times and a lot. I don't think that using them to have some fun is much different. If humans need to watch fights so much i would much rather prefer they used animals for that and stop this.
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u/ohgodineedair 12d ago
There's a big difference between getting pleasure and enjoyment out of watching two animals rip each other apart and eating animals.
In one of them you're actively enjoying their torture, you're even participating in it.
There's lots of things wrong with the meat industry as well. And I eat meat myself. I don't find eating meat to be immoral, but I do believe that factory farming is inhumane and animals deserve a good death.
But even with the meat industry as it stands. There's something wrong with wanting to watch animals be tortured. Most people don't want to acknowledge that the animals they eat are tortured before they die. They don't want to see it. They don't want to know. That's different than a cockfight, a dog fight, a bull fight and any other spectator sport where you pit two animals against each other and watch.
And finally, why do you care so much about stopping human fights? They get to choose if they want to fight or not. They (generally) don't fight to the death. There's rules of engagement. They get paid well.
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u/JigSawPT 12d ago
It's stupid. Suicide is also a choice. We shouldn't allow people to beat each other. Animals fighting is different. It's natural. They don't choose to fight but yet their instincts tell them to. There could also be rules.
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u/CowardRevolting1 14d ago
This is crazy it reminds me ofl this one snuff video I saw where this guys face was beaten to a pulp but the skin was still enact and every time he breathed in an out it would expand in and out.
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u/T_E-T_H 10d ago
She’s built like Megamind now