Talk:Gegard Mousasi

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Change from Boxing

"When he figured out that he couldn't make it to the top of the boxing world due to lacking boxing expertise, he switched to kickboxing, and then eventually to mixed martial arts.[1]"

This sentence seems a bit misleading. It suggests he perhaps quit boxing because of his own boxing skills. The source states: "When he figured out that he wouldn't make it to the top of the sweet science in a country as small as Holland, he switched to kickboxing and eventually to mixed martial arts. ...But since the Dutch had not been able to produce a single outstanding boxer in the last 100 years while at the same time being the world's premier kickboxing nation, Mousasi switched sports."

Seems like this is saying he changed because of lack of boxing opportunity in a small country, or the unavailability of quality training, when compared with kickboxing.

SixT-4 (talk) 23:05, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I changed it to say he simply switched to kickboxing and MMA instead. Feel free to expand to include his reasoning. --aktsu ^(t / c) 18:56, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Biography

Mousasi is officially labeled as fighting out of Netherlands both in DREAM, StrikeForce and other companies. He might be ethnic Armenian, but his nationality is Dutch. People should stop changing the flag to Armenia, it is officially Dutch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.209.133.224 (talk) 17:26, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have seen many of his earlier fights where he is not fighting under dutch flag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.94.188.29 (talk) 20:42, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He is Armenian, and on his own facebook page as well as Sherdog profile Armenia is listed as his COUNTRY! Either keep both flags or the Armenian one. There is no room for chauvinism here!--74.207.73.189 (talk) 23:04, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But Armenia is not his country. He is ethnic Armenian, yes. But according to this article he was born in Iran, and moved to the Netherlands. The box in the biography is not for ethnicity, its for nationality, which would be Iranian or Dutch. Harley peters (talk) 19:18, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MMA Record

There has been major vandalism to his MMA records/table of results. I reverted about half of the intended error, but then got bored; would someone else please do the rest :/ Ecclesispastic2489 16:22, 6 August 2009

Yup, this article is extremely false. Here's the real thing, http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/gegard-mousasi-7466 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.12.150.33 (talk) 17:58, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]