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Because trash talking each other is part of the show they put on, and is part of competition. It can be fun to trash talk each other. Also, it's a valid tactic to try and get in your opponents head and psych them out. Any advantage you can get because respect or not, they are fighting to win.

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Why would they do that, though? Is that even fair?

Also, why aren't European martial arts, other than boxing and wrestling, as popular as Asian martial arts?
Of course it's fair. If you can't handle trash talk from an opponent then you don't deserve to win.

And I would guess that the answer to the latter question is because there aren't that many European martial arts that have survived to the present day the way Asian martial arts have, there's less of the mystique with things that don't come from totally different cultures, and because they may be less common in general and less effective.

But even just on the question of popularity, I know of no European martial arts being taught anywhere in my province except for boxing and wrestling. But there are plenty of places in my city alone that teach Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Aikido, Taekwondo, Karate, etc. It's kind of hard for anything else to become popular in MMA when there's few places to actually learn them without leaving the country.