MMA vs. Other Martial Arts. What's your opinion?

Okay...Though I dissagree with your mentality on this subject I ask you to please keep an open mind and hear me out. The UFC Was The first mixed martial arts organization. The very first ufc being held back in 1993. It first started off as an eight man tournament pitting men with various martial arts backgrounds against each ohter. There Were Styles ranging form Traditional boxing, Karate and Muy Thai Kickboxing to wrestling, shoot fighting, judo and Brazilian JiuJitsu. The Victor of this eight man tournament was amazingly the smallest man in the whole bunch. Royce(Hoyce) Grasie using BJJ. He proved that a smaller man using the right technique can overcome seemingly impossible odds. There were almost no rules mind you, Only Biting, Eye Gouging, and fish hooking were illigal. Now as soon as all of these hugh guys lost to this little guy. They Started To learn all of his tecniques too. Now Maybe not to the same level but to a degree. That Makes him Know how to defend and nullify the attacks thus making it his own type of fight. Anyway My point is that todays mma fighters are not just animals trying to overpower eachother. If you watch some fights you'll see that a lot of the time the smaller guy will win by using a good technique. Todays MMA Fighters Are a culmination of many different fighting styles that they becom very profecient in. And yes these guys are super athletes. They train at amazing levels pushing themselves physically and mentally for over eight hours a day. But all of the fighters are doing that now so you kind of have to to keep up. The point is that they deserve respect for putting so much of themselves into one thing. And The whole mixing martial arts thing. Why limit yourself to one specific art. The more tools in your tool kit the better I always say. MMA Gives Every style of martial arts a chanch to shine. The fighters only use the ones that are most effective. That is the beauty of it. It takes the best aspects of many fighting styles and puts them together leaving out the unaffective stuff.(weve all seen the karate comercials where some 100 pound girl punches and throws her instructor and you can obviously see him jump) Id like to see your monk go into the UFC and use one of your pinpoint strikes against an unwilling opponant. so many martial arts today rely on you having a partner who lets you do whatever you want to them. karate practice is no more real than the fight sceans in the Matrix. I say all of this eith the greatest respect possible. one more thing before I finish. Find someone you know who is either in highschool wresteling or has been in it. ask them how hard it was. now ask them to imagine if they had to do it eight hours a day. they will tell you it would be like hell. MMA Fighters Train Harder.