Grace under fire
I have been looking into this, because I was watching UFC, and there was a mention by the commentors, of Steven being choked out by Gene. So far it apparently happened on three different movies. Out for Justic, Under seige, and now, Marked for death. If it did, I don't feel it matters, and I am not going to judge who was the good guy or bady guy, because those ideas are not how people really are. Life is here for us to experience phases and realities and states of mind, and alot of people have alot of different ideas of how someone should behave. If it did happen and Gene isn't bragging about it, then that is grace. I see how people, even martial artists, love to tell these stories, and tell how someone is not as tough as they say or think they are, or that they are jerks in personaility. This keeps us trapped in this social cycle. It also conveys a more combative, ego based type of martial arts. I would agree that someone turning down a fight, sets them out of the cycle, if the reason they turned it down, is not out of some type of fear, bu that they don't wish to express themselves in that ego type manner. But whatever it may be is alright, it is life, and it is too short to think what other people think matters.