"This sport is repulsive." ~ Tony Kornheiser on PTI referring to Mixed Martial Arts and Herschel Walker's MMA debut at Strikeforce: Miami.
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at least he admits it’s a sport – used to be a lot of folks wouldn’t even give MMA that much.
by some schmuck in texas on Feb 1, 2010 8:16 PM EST up reply actions
Just keep in mind that many people will be turned off by MMA.
It is what it is.
yeah yeah yeah . . .
by VeeisAnimated on Feb 2, 2010 9:15 AM EST up reply actions
it is true, we love the sport and that is why we watch it, but if we ever tried to tell someone the sport is not brutal or violent that would be a lie. It is a combat sport where the goal is to knock your opponent out or force him to quit.
It will also take us passing the sport onto the next generation before we really gain acceptance. we got a while to go, but the sport has made great strides very quickly. However, we cannot expect instant universal change.
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I was watching a Strikeforce re-run recently with 5 friends. I slowly discovered that I was the only MMA fan.
What I find CRAZY is how a sport like high school, collegiate and professional football is deemed mainstream when it is possibly more brutal than MMA, kickboxing, or muay thai boxing. Fighters actually are not competing week after week with minor concussions and a host of other minor injuries. Fighters must allow their bodies to heal before competing
yeah yeah yeah . . .
by VeeisAnimated on Feb 2, 2010 12:00 PM EST up reply actions
it is the visual of it. football and hockey hide behind pads and even boxing hides (the violence) behind gloves to an extent. It is the instant violence that freaks people out. You are completely right though. Those athletes take full speed hits day after day and the repetitive hits is what is causing a lot of the long term damage
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Yes but its annoying when hardcore fans have to hear this asshole talk about something that he knows nothing about.
IMO, evolution couldn’t happen fast enough
What do you need to “know” to have an opinion about cage fighting? It probably is repulsive and we should all be ashamed of ourselves for encouraging it.
by Jonathan Snowden on Feb 2, 2010 10:37 AM EST up reply actions
He's right
This sport at its best is about watching two competitors enact violence upon each other. That is something most animals have repulsive reactions toward. It takes deep mental relationships with martial arts or violence to get past that. A man in his sixties who lives in the vast comforts and luxury of the western world generally sees violence as a way of losing luxury, peace, and happiness. Nothing of value and just brutal. Something to be left to the history of our species as soon as possible.
But there are those of us who want to preserve and better understand this part of ourselves instead of simply repressing it.
I realize that many will never have the want to make that emotional investment and this sport will always have limits because of it. Same with boxing.
I understand the points that you all make – look at it like this, he is forming an opinion on a sport that he has watched only a handful of times if that. He doesn’t understand about the amount the fighters give up to train for the fights. How hard it is to break through. The skill that is involved using a ground game, and BJJ etc.
Moving on from that, the amount of work it takes to maintain the blogs that have come out of MMA promoting an event. The amount of other business that has been born from MMA
MMA is not two men bashing the shit out of eachother.
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