If I was the coach for a female MMA fighter that was losing, I would just yell “Calm Down”… That should change things…
Why It’s Funny
This joke works because it plays on the classic, infuriating trope of telling someone, especially a woman, to just ‘calm down’ during a tense moment. The humor comes from the irony of using the world’s least helpful advice in a high-stakes, aggressive combat sport where adrenaline is actually required.
