Tapout Puts The Ruffo Boys On Display

First: that haircut is ridiculous.

Second: I thinks sport is good for kids but the psycological part is more important at this age.

Third: If they think they will be at the top just because tapout sponsors them, they are well wrong.

very cool.

First, their wrestling coach said ” . . . wrestling under Gable” which would be Dan Gable. As a former D1 wrestler who wrestled against some of Dan’s former boys, I checked this out. Their (Zuffo bots) coach is talking out of his ass; this guy never wrestled under Gable. He may have watched his videos, as have hundreds of thousands of people, but he never wrestled at Iowa. Neither he nor Zalesky have ever heard of him. These boys are being trained by a wanna-be, prevaricating coach.

Second, what little kid says that those they fight are enemies on the mat but friends off? This seems like so much coaching from the dad. It seems like perhaps he is living out his life (what he wanted it to be) through them.

I don’t think that they think they’ll be at the top because of tapout, I think it’s because they’ll be the first of a new generation of fighters who have trained MMA their whole lives as opposed to doing wrestling or jiu jitsu until your 20’s before you start MMA.

I think they have what its required to one day become champions in mma. Will they do it? we’ll see in a decade, I hope to be alive in 2022 to see where they are at that time.

This piece has a lot of little issues that you can pick on, like the obvious coaching the kids got in their answers. However, this does show a glimpse into the future of what it really could be and where this sport will head to and what an amazing thing it will be. Because as great as it is right now there are people from all kinds of different backgrounds that are trying out the whole MMA thing. Oh, I used to play ball and now I’m 50 and I wanna try this MMA thing. You don’t get that in basketball, football and whatever. The future will be when the regular Joe doesn’t even dare to think about trying it out, right along the ex-athlete who was great at some other sport 30 years ago. That’s when it is truly mainstream. I love this sport and I for one can’t wait for that.

the suggestion that kids, who learn mma from such a young age, will somehow revolutionize mma in the future is such BS especially since kids in Russia have been doing this for decades with their learning of Sambo, which is the single martial art that already comes with all of the facets of mma already included in its teachings. Yet, we dont see sambo practitioners dominating mma in any fashion – the exception being Fedor. The fact is that it takes more than just a multi-art training regimine to be successful. It takes intelligence, skill, drive, athletic ability, poise, patience, courage, and wisdom gained from years of experience.

The moral of the story is that just because you start something at a young age doesn’t necessarily mean that you will automatically be successful at a later age.

@bigsexy – do you really want to brag about being able to beat up a 9 / 8 yr old?

…not sure thats the message you want to send out there

“The moral of the story is…” You, straightAhead, tell your own story and draw your own morals from your own opinion? WOW! Impressive… When you start at such a young age you have a much greater chance than when you don’t start at a young age. It’s simple. Look at the athletes in the winter sports or any sport. They are developed from a young age, but yeah, there is no saying that you will succeed but when you do start at that age you soak it in like no other time in your life. That is just the way it is in anything. This sport is so young that we just haven’t had that yet. When the kids of MMA are all grown up and we have had a couple of gens going cycled in, that’s when it becomes one of those things that you are behind if you hadn’t started early enough. And some guy made a comment that anyone can look badass if they’re filmed in slow-mo. I think it’s easy to see that there is skill here as well. So to dismiss these kids with that comment is idiotic. And a question for the forum… Why are there SOOOOO many haters here? Don’t become so protective of the sport or feel the need to say something just to have an opinion, so much so that you are just hating. These kids are awesome and it’s a hell of a lot better than playing video games all day. And on top of that they are bad ass. Don’t let the director’s cheesy choices cloud what those kids are doing.

Also what I ve noticed myself is that when you are really young you have a lot more energy, for example when I was 10-12 I could graple for half an hour straight and not get tired when I became 18 I tried it over again and would be tired after 3-5 minutes of grappling with an even opponent. Because you weight a lot more so it takes a lot more energy to deal with your weight.

i give them 2 years until they take steroids. until then i can kick both their asses and i’m only 25 years old.

It’s going to be funny when some 2nd grader takes their lunch money.

Pads don’t punch back.

The kid is just regurgitating what he hears his dad say.

Good to see kids involved in a competative sport, sad to see the dad trying to live his fantasy through a 8 and 9 year old kid.

Why are yall talkin crap about an 8 and 9 year old pathetic/i bet these lil guys can kick your sons ass /they look pretty dam impressive for all the knowledge they can take in at that age/very impressed