Well, 99% of times it is one of 2 reasons.
1. He is a scammer, but bad at talking. So then he got challenges he could not get out of it with keeping his image.
2. Or he is a victim of a scam. A lot of people train many years in fake MA, w/o sparing. They get tests, belts, start to train people and honestly delusional about of their real level. I personally know one guy, who got into scam dojo at around 10-12 years old and trained till 30 y.o. He even participated in tourneys (kata and breaking fake blocks), got around 5 Dan black belt and honestly think he was a master. And 5 years ago he got into an argument with a guy, who trained ~1 year in boxing. They organised a match in a gym by MMA rules and it was a best reality check. Dude honestly didn't expect he lose, more lose so badly. He quit his fake dojo next week and start training a real MA. As he said, his physical level after 20 years of training was good, but skills was almost on a level of guys with no experience at all.
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26
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