{"id":299466,"date":"2019-01-25T08:12:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=299466"},"modified":"2019-01-25T08:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:12:44","slug":"aj-agazarm-explains-how-bellator-mma-is-just-like-fortnite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/aj-agazarm-explains-how-bellator-mma-is-just-like-fortnite\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Agazarm explains how Bellator MMA is just like Fortnite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tomorrow night, at Bellator 214, grappling ace AJ Agazarm will make his anticipated MMA debut opposite Jesse Roberts. While MMA competition is still unfamiliar to the submission specialist, he doesn&#8217;t expect it to be all the different from a saloon in the Wild West \u2014 or a game of Fortnite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe way I look at it is it\u2019s a saloon full of gunfighters,\u201d Agazarm told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2019\/01\/bellator-like-fortnite-aj-agazarm-comparison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMAjunkie (opens in a new tab)\">MMAjunkie<\/a> on Thursday \u201cEverybody\u2019s got a story to tell, and everybody is really dangerous, and that\u2019s what\u2019s fun about Bellator. Because no matter who I\u2019m going to fight, it\u2019s going to be a show. It\u2019s going to be crazy, and it\u2019s going to be something that people are going to be talking about for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t understand the saloon reference, just put it in terms of gaming. Bellator is like Fortnite,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It\u2019s a universe of murderers all dropped off on a boat \u2013 hundreds of them \u2013 getting ready to kill everybody using everything they possibly can. That\u2019s what I\u2019m going to be doing in there. I\u2019m going to be using everything I possibly can to take this guy out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"399\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fortnite.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-299468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fortnite.jpg 696w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fortnite-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As his MMA debut looms on the horizon, AJ Agazarm feels very excited \u2014 though the prospect of getting kicked in the head is a little more intense than playing a simple game of Fortnite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think just stepping in the cage is special,\u201d Agazarm said. \u201cPeople don\u2019t realize how big of a deal this is. I\u2019m stepping in the ring with a guy that wants to kick my head off. This is a significant thing, and I think as time has gone on, people have been more accustomed to seeing this atmosphere. It\u2019s become the norm. But let\u2019s not forget \u2013 I\u2019m stepping in the cage where there\u2019s another dude that\u2019s trying to kick my head off, and that\u2019s pretty crazy if you think about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think of this metaphor from AJ Agazarm? Do you think there are similarities between MMA and Fortnite? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on 1\/25\/2019.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night, at Bellator 214, grappling ace AJ Agazarm will make his anticipated MMA debut opposite Jesse Roberts. While MMA competition is still unfamiliar to the submission specialist, he doesn&#8217;t expect it to be all the different from a saloon in the Wild West \u2014 or a game of Fortnite. \u201cThe way I look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":299467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[40373,44],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AJ Agazarm explains how Bellator MMA is just like Fortnite | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bellator 214 star AJ Agazarm discusses the similarities between mixed martial arts and a simple game of Fortnite.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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