All Purpose UFC/MMA/That Kind Of Thing Thread

"60 Minutes" piece on MMA which aired on Sunday 10th December, 2006.

http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...9t_de100660mins

 

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Good story.

Also, I was surprised at how much I like Anderson Cooper on the show. His story wasn't anything award winning, but I could see him growing into a role their very nicely. He had one really bad stand-up where the camera was shoved right into his face way too close.

 

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i had no clue it was such a cash cow. damn.

personally, i can't stomach that stuff. fighting is cool, but these guys are beating the shit out of each other.

nice, though, to see fake wrestling falling out of the picture.

 

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That MMA seems to draw less interest here on a board populated by people in the sports media biz than seemingly anywhere else is a pretty damning indictment on how far behind the curve we've been with this sport.

 

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And proud of it.
That's no sport. I don't care how many people pay to watch it. People watched Dancing With The Stars, too. Not a sport.

 

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So you blend freestyle wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling, boxing, judo and taekwondo, which are all Olympic sports, and throw in several other martial arts disciplines, and are proud to say that you don't consider the finished product a sport. Brilliant.

 

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Bruce, I don't know that I'd be basing my argument on whether UF is a sport on the Olympics.

According to them, ballroom dancing is a sport, while baseball is not.

Just saying.

 

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OK then Zeke, under what guidelines would you call collegiate-style wrestling, which is where a lot of the most successful UFC fighters come from, "not a sport?"

 

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Wrestling is a sport. In college, in high school, people compete under a fairly consistent set of rules.

UF is people beating the shit out of each other. They have one-off versions of this crap in every podunk town in the country, there is no coherent set of rules and the people come to swill cheap beer and watch a couple of cranked-up meatheads crack each other's heads.

That ain't a sport.

 

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No, actually there are weight classes, rounds, time limits, a list of something like 35 fouls that are prohibited, doctors in attendance, state athletic commission oversight, and there's never been an injury worse than a broken arm (edit: at least in the UFC. Can't vouch for every podunk show out there). At least learn what it is and isn't before jumping to conclusions.

 

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Bruce -

People want to watch other people beating the shit out of each other. They don't want to read about it.

I've read a couple of trend stories on the emergence of UFC but I don't think you can make a logical argument that sports pages should start covering the sport on a regular basis though.