MMA Brutality Redux: The Proponent Liars Cannot Hide the Truth
Yesterday’s post on Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has quickly gone viral. Over 11,000 readers from all over North America and some from Russia and Europe.
I would not add a back-to-back story series if it weren’t for the following letter (by email), which I received from an IP address in Burnaby. It is similar to 16 different letters that I’ve received in the last 22 hours since I published my story. The vulgarity and violence isn’t the point, really. It’s that this is precisely the kind of viewer MMA attracts–the Neanderthal that knows World Wrestling Entertainment is an act, and needs to see the blood in real time.
Here it is unedited, brace yourselves:
“What do you know about fighting you fat fucking prick? You know the guys in UFC would kick yor fucking ass for breakfast just for fun fucker. Maybe if you could find your fucking prick you could be a man and get in the ring like a real man fuckhead. MMMA saved my life fatass and you know what I hope I bump in to you some place. Send me yout wife so she can feel a real man you fucking loser. For sure she thinks about other guys all the time. You like boxing because its like the sport for pussys like you dumb motherfucker. Fuck off baldy nobody gives a rats ass what you say so fuck off will you.”
Now, as I mentioned, several other emails like this came through the contacts page, but this one was most special.
Many claiming that the UFC event that took place was a “rocksolid”, “primo”, “fuckin’ awesome”, “major league”, “big time” affair.
There isn’t much one can possibly offer as retort to such literate and scholarly brilliance, except perhaps that this is precisely the type of person MMA awakens. It takes the sleeping giant inside scum like the fellow, who wrote the above nugget and has them beating up a gay couple in the middle of the night. MMA allows its fighters to play ring entry music which is misogynistic, anti-police music about “raping bitches” and “killing cops.” Where MMA is concerned there are no controls on anything including the astronomical amounts of money it collects for the glorification of the worst society has to offer.
There really isn’t much more to say about MMA. Except to allow for their own pictures to speak for themselves (again, brace yourselves):
Do you think you’d see this in boxing? The fellow on the bottom lost the fight after one more round. He was actually allowed to continue.
After his septum was obviously ruptured through the bridge of his nose (take a good look), the left nostril looks like it was partially severed from his face. But the fight continued for another half minute–for optimum blood splatter. And let’s not even talk about the lip repair required.
Clearly, multiple stitches required here to seal a deep gash on his head that extends from the crown to almost his right temple. This fight should have been stopped at the first sign of significant blood, particularly where a head injury is concerned. Instead, it went well beyond this gore.
In case you’re wondering, this chap was not pelted for poor performance with a family-sized Heinz Ketchup bottle from Costco. And the dark crimson patches on the canvas are not someone exploring the Picasso method. That’s all blood. Yup, just like boxing say MMA meatheads–suuuuure fellas. And, yes, he’s smiling for some reason.
No one looks like this without being pummeled for a good, long time. MMA is an APPALLING excuse for a sport.
This one is self-explanatory. There is no way this fight should have proceeded after such a deep cut, but hey, it’s a sport, right?
There are few words to describe the ethically bankrupt profiteers that would defend such lunacy as MMA. If it were regulated, I gather its sales would immediately drop by half since the mostly goons that follow it would sooner watch a man be hammered just short of his life than read an anthology of W. H. Auden. Okay, perhaps I’m stretching it a bit, but you get my point.
The sooner MMA is dismantled the better.
MMA, simply put, is not a sport. It’s a sad, demeaning spectacle that showcases the worst of humanity.
On every level.
Imagine the public uproar if these were pictures of animals, not human beings..
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Sure. Excellent point. Pamela Anderson would be out, with all two brain cells, trying to explain it all.
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Yeah but those two braincells are HUGE.
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Okay, alright, hardy har har. You guys kill me. Just cause a gal has nice breasts doesn’t mean she’s dense. Frankly, I couldn’t care less what a woman looks like. There’s nothing sexier than an intelligence.
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Let’s see, we’ve got gladiatorial combats, a dictatorship of course, riots and every sort of sexual deviant parading through the streets flaunting themselves, sky-high taxes poured into patronage, bread and circuses …
Its all seeming a little familiar somehow.
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I love it when you go all cynical on us. It’s so rare… LOL! Great comment.
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You do attract an interesting fan base Alex!
If not hate mail from COV employees, the bicycling sect, pride parade fans, you now get to add in the MMA peeps.
LOL!
Keep up the good work – yours is one of the first sites I visit in the morning.
Cheers,
M.
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You’re a good woman!
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Hey I agree with the guy who wrote that letter. MMA is here to stay bud and maybe someone will kick the shit out of you and teach you to be a man. You are a fag lover man obviously.
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Well, I’m not too tough to find when I’m in town. Why don’t you come out to Vancouver and teach me a lesson?
That’s after you get through your Gr. 5 remedial English…
Go away, idiot.
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Pamela with BOTH brain cells; there you are again you old softie, being way too kind. Pamela only ever had two things that interested anyone, and they were mostly silicon. Gosh I never did get to see that pirated video, wonder if it’s still around? As for your detractors, if they had a brain cell it would be lonely too.
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Thanks Larry. I guess when I was writing about “two” and “Pamela” I was thinking one thing and writing another…
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Ah, Alex…
It is so much fun to see the low-lifes like Joe reveal themselves. I hope Bruce Allen see this post since he dismissed the concerns of the BCMA on his little editorial soapbox.
City of Vancouver, is this spectacle what you REALLY want to be seen supporting?? I thought your colour was “green”…not crimson red, as shown in these pictures.
Ah, the colour green…Hey, that’s the colour of money , isn’t it guys?
May your daughters all date these monkeys, and their supporters..
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Joe declares that MMA is here to stay. Well I figure if the Chinese can outlaw the pigtail and the rickshaw because they were debasing, than I should think this would be a cinch; but as David in North Burnaby notes, there appears to be no depths to which some are not willing to plumb.
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I could never understand why someone would pay good money to see someone have their brains turned into jello. I’ve never been a fan of boxing either, I just don’t get it. But like many things on this wonderful planet, it’s all about the money that people like “Joe says ” are willing to waste. I guess it’s a lot harder to spend it on something useful.
Good article Alex.
Guy in Victoria
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I’m with you brother.
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Judging from the pristine English in the MMA letters you received I have to say this shows what too many blows to the head will do to someone.
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I’m not a boxing or an MMA fan, but since 1980 more than 200 professional and amateur boxers have died from training or ringside injuries. None have died in the MMA.
Which is the more dangerous sport? And why is boxing ok but not MMA?
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Once again, you cannot compare stats since MMA has been around for only a fraction of the time. To do a like comparison, you can compare over the same amount of time when the fighters have aged for a similar period or been exposed the same number of times. There is no like comparison at the moment. Except, that you can clearly see that the ethos of MMA is pure barbarism.
Boxing has been regulated, significantly.
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Again, I’m not a fan of either, but professional MMA events have been held in Japan by Shooto starting back in 1989. It is comparable.
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Again, no it’s not. Boxing has been around for centuries and has evolved. What you considered MMA at its genesis is nothing compared to the violence today. The stats need to be like. The timelines must be like. The longevity of fighters must be factored, they’re quality of life, etc.
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Actually cherylb:
I do follow MMA and there was a recent death reported – June 2010 – Michael Kirkham.
Other deaths have be reported, but whether they have been documented is another thing. Some countries where MMA fights take place don’t regulate them as vigilantly as they should, and I often wonder if they are sanctioned fights. Let’s face it, when money is involved, people will find away around regulations and this sport as with others will invite unscrupulous promoters.
I remember when MMA fights first started – there were no holds barred.
Now as the sport evolves, regulations are being put into place – in most countries.
And you are correct – there are more deaths reported in boxing and or football, but then again, MMA fighting is still somewhat ‘young’.
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And that’s the KEY point. MMA is extremely young. To compare it to boxing you’ve need at least fifty years of specific records.
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The email from the losers who loves MMA, clearly shows how brain damaged the losers are. Just like the losers who take part in MMA, they are too brain damaged to know they are brain damaged.
We should have rule that anyone who is injured in anyway from taking part in MMA should get zip, zero, nada medicare benefits, including none at all for any Alzheimer’s coverage, that is all but certain to occur at an early age. Hmm, it just occurred to me – they will not recognize that they have Alzheimer’s; it will be like they are back in the ring.
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What surprises me is that your mentally deficient detractors have the where-with-all to actually use a computer, or are they “dictating” with a “bud”.
I’m sorry AGT, I just couldn’t resist….
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Completely understand. Don’t think it didn’t occur to me…
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Hi Alex, I can only reiterate what “Guy in Victoria” wrote, my definition of MMA is a Show by Troglodytes for Troglodytes.
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Indeed.
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I think he was just trying to flirt.
Internet Thug:
1 An Internet thug, is a guy that acts hardcore on the internet, but if you saw them in person, you would laugh.
2. One who thinks he is cool by making fun of someone over the internet. Also refers to little kids who try to make fun of people but end up failing and retreat to name calling or saying you suck.
3. A##holes who don’t have the courage to step to you in person, but instead they threaten you or talk sh#t to you online.
(from the online Urban Dictionary)
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He was trying to flirt?
Great. I’m such a lucky guy…
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