Shaolin Monk destroys MMA Fighters?

Shanghai based MMA coach Ramsey Dewey responds to the thousands of comments claiming that Chinese professional kickboxer Yi Long is both a Shaolin Monk and an MMA fighter. Neither of these things are true. Yi Long is a rare kind of fighter who is also a savvy fight promoter and an expert at turning a simple fight into compelling narrative - he’s monk in the same way as the Iron Sheik from the WWF pro wrestling days was Persian royalty. In short, it’s a gimmick. Why do gimmicks like this work to attract fans to combat sports? Simple: without the narrative structure of a story behind the fight, to the common man, it’s just incomprehensible chaos in a ring.

Yi Long was kind enough to stop by for an interview. Check out the full podcast here:
https://youtu.be/3sd82aK0x58

In this interview, Yi Long shares some incredibly wise words for traditional martial artists who want to compete in modern combat sports like he did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hXc4GcoH4Y

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