[djitz]

Pretty much everyone I’ve ever met who actually knew how to fight well was very friendly and kind. Traveling and showing up at random MMA or BJJ schools is almost always a fantastic experience.

Subjecting the ego to much needed reality checks makes for some nice folks.

[akiselev]

Seconded. I worked with a professional MMA team while they appeared on The Ultimate Fighter and met a lot of fighters who came to their gym to train, even spent some time living in a communal house with some of them. All but one of them would be in the running for the “nicest person I ever met” award.

[dijit]

That's my impression too, as a person who was in that scene myself for some number of years.

However theres... unfortunately... always exceptions... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3PLLOreTLY