Wow... wild man. Awesome.

Thinking as I go and seeing what i come up with cause you raise some interesting thoughts...

"What could this type of expression be labeled as?
Movement, energy, violence?"

I think there is a quote something like "energy needs to express"

Energy is movement and is violence. Stagnation of energy is worse than "negative" expression of energy I think.

I suspect hitting another human being and putting yourself in a situation where you will be damaging the body has certain consequences to our consciousness/soul/higher Self and or the connection with the body and ego (if any of that exists or holds truth). That said I don't think fighting as a sport is bad. It simply holds true that there is cause and effect.

Expression of energy - lets say there is some violence "wanting" to be expressed. If that is true then I say that it is likely there is blocked energy almost certainly related to pain (fear/shame) or pain plus programming (life experiences, being taught, modeled behavior etc. Getting it moving or out is "good". How you do it is good or bad based on your own judgments of what is supposedly good or bad.

One might be able to find some sort of therapy, one might be able to do some looking inwardly, one might slowly balance indirectly through balancing the mind/body etc whatever...

Those things are not going to work for everyone and certainly not everything.

IF there was stagnation of energy that "wanted" to move from past experiences it seems to me the ring is quite a cathartic place to do it.
One of my teachers, who has boxed and trained Olympic boxers, suggests that all fighters have Dad issues and once resolved will no longer want to fight.

Now forget about all that. It doesn't matter if its true or not. IF there is anything there creating violence then the ring seems like a fucking great place to express it safely without abusing another human being or living thing and while doing way less damage to one's own psyche.

Now maybe it is not violence, maybe it is movement and maybe your body for what ever reason needs to move (all bodies do) and it needs to move big (probably cause our society moves so little (chairs, cars, desks, offices, TV etc) and this is the form of expression that works for you... fucking eh lol

Maybe neither, maybe both to greater or lesser degrees....

I think by looking at thing in terms of energy, balance and cause/effect they become much more simple as there is less story to confuse things...

So could the words purpose and destiny be the story that confuses that energy needs to express, energy is movement and is expression (regardless of level of truth in any different story).. hmmm it seems when you believe something your brain shuts off to thinking about it logically... seems backwards but if I let go of all my beliefs would I be more likely to see, experience, gnow a closer level of Truth?

lol thanks for getting my thoughts flowing.. I feel I get somethings a little more...(who knows if I do lol)