What Are You Playing At Steven Seagal?

[Karim Graham]

did you guys see him standing with lyoto as he weighed in? this guys just begging for publicity now. its pissing me off that hes using fighters to do it too.

[Eric Martinez]

what if you're wrong. what if it's the fighters choice to bring them along.

[Eric Martinez]

bring him along.

[Karim Graham]

well anderson and him already admitted that it was a publicity stunt when they said all that stuff about him teaching anderson his kick etc. seems pretty likely the same thing is happening again. i havent seen Seagal in any other MMA events or anything even related to MMA, then suddenly hes best buddies with top 10 guys? i smell something all too familiar..

[Corky]

thank you i was thinking the same thing
he needs to take his 5k year old martial art and leave
considering it isnt effective anyways

[geo]

seagals another canseco, they cant except their not in the limelight anymore and they take whatever publicity they can grab, whether its good or bad

[IrishSheep]

well anderson and him already admitted that it was a publicity stunt when they said all that stuff about him teaching anderson his kick etc. seems pretty likely the same thing is happening again. i havent seen Seagal in any other MMA events or anything even related to MMA, then suddenly hes best buddies with top 10 guys? i smell something all too familiar..

proof?

[Jason Hyatt]

I see it this way:

There are two things Steven Segal has done with his life -- martial arts and self-promotion. It turns out he's pretty good at one and REALLY good at the other. I think a lot of folks don't like him because of the self-promotion and movie career and as a result disregard the whole of his martial arts experience. I've never met the man, never trained with him, and never seen him fight a trained fully resisting opponent. As the first westerner to open and run a successful dojo in Japan I'll give him some props that he's not a complete moron when it comes to the fighting arts. He's too old and fat to re-start his career as a fighter but he can certainly keep the self-promotion thing going. I really have no idea whether he is being disingenuous by being associated with fighters like Lyoto and Anderson Silva. I would think that if he was completely full of shit they wouldn't let him hang around. There must be SOME benefit to having him around even if it's not for the training. Perhaps he brings fans to certain fighters who might otherwise not be interested in MMA. I dunno, but I get the feeling he's going to be around for a while.

[Jeff V]

Pretty sure him opening his own gym in Japan is a little over blown. He married his instructors daughter and I read one time that her dad basically gave them a gym to run. Then when he had the cred he bailed on her and took his first westerner to open a gym in Japan claim stateside to profit.

It was a while back that I read this so this is just a summary of what I can remember. I could be wrong.

[Andy Lopez]

It's not shameless self promotion he actually trains with these fighters and is good friends with a lot of them and has been for quite sometime. It wasnt until the silva thing that people noticed him hanging around. Segal is actually well versed in the popular mma martial arts as well as akido.

He isnt planning on becoming a fighter himself, as no one wants to see him do that, but he is into the mma scene and I dont have a problem, the guy is a serious martial artist at the end of the day, despite his has been movie star persona.