is 24 too old to go pro in mma ive been a - /xs/

Anonymous05/23/25, 23:47No.230985

Is 24 too old to go pro in MMA? I've been a miserable loser all my life and if I succeeded in this, could I retroactively justify the pain or something? My stats >5'11", natural light or welterweight >between 183-185cm wingspan >roughly intermediate or above strength on all major lifts >sadly no wrestling in high school (no bitches either) >trained for a year in the past, went all in on striking and picked up some grappling/jiu jitsu too >lonely, isolated friendless khhv for years now I don't even care about my life anymore, this could be the only thing that could justify my existence. But I fear I'll never be able to catch up to the ones who went all in from birth.

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Anon05/24/25, 01:36No.230989

UFC? Probably Low-mid level promotions, maybe even international fights? Completely possible t. also 24, ammy boxer turned ammy kickboxer and wants to make it to k1 and get jap pussy WAGMI fag

Anon05/24/25, 06:13No.230998

go for it anon! don't live life with regrets. if you fail, you fail, but at least you know you tried

Anon05/24/25, 08:18No.231000

You need to stop having these faggy fantasies at your age and get real. "I wanna be a rockstar!" type of thinking is okay when you're 16, not when you're a grown man. If you had what it took you'd be training right now instead of making a thread like this on a Siamase yak breeding forum. Go train for a year or two, do a an amateur bout and if that doesn't strip you off your delusions then you can begin thinking about whether or not you want to take this more seriously.

Anon05/25/25, 11:49No.231057

Pereira went pro as a kickboxer in his mid-20s and moved to MMA in his 30s Your odds are really slim but it's not unheard of

Anon05/25/25, 19:43No.231090

No. Save yourself the CTE. Fighters are born knowing if they want to fight and 24 is too old to get into that mentality if it didn't exist already. If you already have that aggressiveness and tested yourself before then go for it. But your post reeks of depression, depressed fighters will never be successful.

Anon05/26/25, 09:49No.231166

You're probably never going to be a professional athlete, no. However, the same applies to nearly everyone on the planet - it isn't a black mark against you. Your problem is that you think you need to be someone special, someone above-average or extraordinary, in order to have any value or self-worth at all. This simply isn't true. It's absolutely fine to be an average man. It's fine to go through life without fame or riches or exceptional talent, and this is the reality that the majority of people live. To find contentment and satisfaction in life, you need to learn how to accept yourself for who you are, rather than try and be someone you aren't.

Anon05/26/25, 15:13No.231183

>i want to become a fighter because i want to succeed at something You need to find better motivation than that, even if it's "I don't want to go back to that life"

Anon05/27/25, 10:50No.231303

A lot of mma fighters start late, usually because they train other styles when young. Ngannou for instance only started training boxing at 22 and would later start MMA at 27 or so. Other guys start in their career later, like Randy Couture at the age of 33 or Stephen Thompson at 29, but they had experience in other styles, namely Wrestling and Kickboxing for Couture and Thompson.Basically it doesn't matter the age someone starts MMA. However I doubt you could go pro, from how it sounds, you seem disinterested in the sport, only wanting to achieve something to not be a bum, as opposed to having actual passion or drive.

Anon05/27/25, 18:12No.231322

Biologically? No. Not too late. MMA in particular is a sport with huge variance due to its extremely open ruleset. You can probably get good at some weird tactic and win fights. Do you actually want to get hit in the head though? Most fighters have some kind of troubled home life or just insane aggressive drive that makes them want to fuck shit up and shrug off damage. Sensitive young men are typically terrible fighters. And since you're posting guts on 4chan that's probably you. By all means, prove me wrong. But if you taste blood and decide it isn't for you, no shame in that. There's other paths to self-fulfillment. If you're not a fighter that's not a big deal. Most of us just train for fun.Ok wait I just finished reading your post. I'll try to save you some time. You probably won't listen but I'll try. Nothing will justify your misspent past. You are going to have to decide to move on and live authentically.

Anon05/30/25, 03:16No.231780

You got psyopped into thinking anybody gives a shit about fighters past a short highlight reel and then they go back to being broke nobodiesThey are jesters jumping around for our amusement.. and you aspire to be like that because the TV and internet told you so! Lmao!Sad. Many such cases!

Anon06/04/25, 17:58No.232756

nomma it's for bums in general

Anon06/04/25, 20:41No.232800

Why do you fucking retards ask other fucking retards questions like this? Go to a gym. Practice the martial arts. See if you even like training as often and intensely as it takes to get decent. Most people do not like martial arts enough to be even a shitty local pro, much less a serious regional or national level competitor. Along the months or years that it takes you to figure it out, you’ll make friends, get in better shape, build confidence, and gain the other intangibles that most people take from the hobbies they enjoy. Then, around the time you get your BJJ blue belt, you’ll quit. You’ll tell all your idiot friends you “used to be a fighter,” and they will listen to your ice cold takes at Hooters on UFC fight nights like you’re Joe Rogan himself.

Anon06/23/25, 11:34No.235165

>be me >have god genetics 99.75th percentile reach @ my height AND the no calves gene >trained from a young age at the same gym that produced one of the goats of ufc before it was famous. >also be me >prime fighting age when ufc was in its infancy and you were lucky to be able to buy a 10 year old used toyota corolla with a year's pay LOL it still pays like shit for most fighters. no regrets not pursuing combat sports as a career and keeping it to a hobby/self defense thing.

Anon07/03/25, 17:55No.236542

Just listened to your vocaroo.Go to Mt. Vernon, IL and go to Pedigo Submission Fighting (PSF) headquarters. It's one of the premier submission grappling gyms in the world, and it's a lot closer than Thailand or Dagestan. They allow fighters to live and sleep in the gym, and they specialize in fucked up broken boys such as yourself.You'll need a very strong grappling base to succeed in MMA, and PSF was founded by an MMA guy, so they can prepare you for that sport. IMHO striking is easier to add in after. Grappling takes more time to get familiar with, so start there. Also, frankly, grappling is more demoralizing when first starting out, so get through those fire and flames early and get it over with. You MUST go through this process in order to succeed.

Anon07/04/25, 15:34No.236668

Go probin MMA? Probably too late yeah. I trained BJJ as a hobbyists at a very respectable MMA gym in my city and there were a lot of pro fighters there, some retired, some in PFL, one guy in the UFC currently, Bellator, etc. also amateurs of course, the head coach was a retired UFC fighter. What I learned was a lot of these guys would absolutely wreck dudes in the gym and they seemed like they were Hercules, and when you looked up their record on sherdog, it was more losses than wins. My point in this is, the talent pool for MMA is much deeper than most casuals like myself realize. But OP, if you want to just become more satisfied in life, have a purpose, motivation, etc, your goal shouldn’t be to be a pro MMA fighter, it should be to just train MMA, not even necessarily to fight on an amateur and pro level. Just training might give you what you’re looking for. From what Ive seen, the life of a professional MMA fighter isn’t something to be jealous of.

Anon07/04/25, 18:34No.236685

>But I fear I'll never be able to catch up to the ones who went all in from birth. This is just your ego talking. You want to be better than everyone else, when in fact you should only be striving to become better than you are now. Every day you are better than your yesterday self is a victory.If this is not enough for you, then maybe the problem isn't what you do, but the way your mind works. You will be perpetually looking for outside approval, but even when you do get it, it will never be enough.This is the same reason why so many rockstars and other famous people ended up dying by OD. They couldn't cope with a life that's lower than their highest heights of attention by the crowds, so they used drugs to keep experiencing something similar.All this is to say that you should first work on having a good dopamine baseline, and to begin by learning to derive happiness from within yourself, instead of others.

Anon07/26/25, 10:05No.238575

Thank you for making this thread. Our stats are basically the same and I feel the same way you do. If you do go through with this, don't be too hard on yourself if you aren't an elite S tier mma god. Most of us aren't.

Anon08/17/25, 04:54No.240422

you need three things 2 fight. the first you can actually lose young, your fitness. If you get injured when you're young you're fucked. Sports is an event so you gotta prepare and sometimes you will go get fucked instead. And you have to be able to take a hit or a slam. Don't take an extended elbow though. Flexibility is good do train for that, but don't literally break your elbows of course. Growing up wrestling or fighting can be good but again may not mean much other than getting injured. Fighting is fun first, all sports are. People get together and punch each other and you are always welcome to join. 24 is starting to push it with being pro because you do need to be good to go pro and being good takes time sometimes so if you are starting at 24 you'd need to be really good.

Anon08/17/25, 15:06No.240452

>can it be done It does not violate the rules of the sport nor physics>is it likely doable It probably is not unless the background you came from is transferable. That might look like >you’re an ex-wrestler in high school who played college football >you’ve been no-lifing in the gym for the last 8 years. >you trained boxing since you were six and run track, but haven’t done any formal fightzProfessional fighters win and lose on the strength of their body and their fight skills. If you have neither, you probably can’t roll with them and have too much catch-up to do in something that’s very much a young man’s game.

Anon08/19/25, 07:46No.240604

I'm in the same situation OP. Completely untrained and out of shape at 35 I'm thinking in 2 years I'll be able to join the UFC

Anon08/23/25, 10:10No.240859

Never to late!!!I was close to fight for the one FC at 33 but than COVID happened, so is never to late

Anon08/24/25, 21:56No.240953

Nah man never too late. If CatTurd could win 40 barfights you can do it.

Anon08/25/25, 21:09No.241004

I'm 28, always been a couch lardass, if I begin now will I ever be good enough to learn ma for self defense?

Anon09/24/25, 09:49No.243091

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/622610-it-is-said-the-warrior-s-is-the-twofold-way-of >“It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.”