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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6243534" data-attributes="member: 8835">I'm Shroedinger's Black Belt.  I know that I can beat you in a fight.  But I also know that you can beat me in a fight.I never got to the cocky stage of thinking I could beat everybody, or telling people I could beat them because I thought so little of their prowess.  I despise that behavior when I see some advanced martial artists do it (I see it in juniors, but those guys are idiots).  The reality is, you never know who's going to get lucky, or tricky.But by all means, I've performed the computation on whether I could beat a person in a fight with just about everybody I've met.  Outside of a specific conversation about martial arts, I don't feel it's right to belittle somebody about it.The relevance to the topic, is this MMA guy is in a position of having superior fighting skills and he's facing chumps.  He knows he can take these guys because he did the computation. Even if he's only won an official bout once.  I've never won a karate tournament, but that doesn't mean I can't kick somebody's butt.  It just means there's other people who can kick mine.</blockquote>