Sky News....

MaeveD

Wow....just tuned onto sky news and they had a five minute spot on cage fighting.... described it as human cock fighting... groups looking for it to be banned in the UK... no such thing as bad advertising? what do you guys think?

goo

Chickens don't have a choice and they fight to the death, right?

Pile of absolute ****e, Sky News only ever gets worse and worse.

breadmonkey

The problem is that nobody understands it. To a random person, it does look pretty brutal. I would have thought the same before I got into BJJ and started watching MMA.

Baggio...

Consenting adults....So what's the big problem??

Some people have too much free time.:mad:

Bagg.

dlofnep

Those kind of articles are predictable as anything. Men in cage, blah blah blah, human cockfighting, blah blah blah. Christ, grow a pear and actually think before you write. Become creative or don't bother. Journalistic monkeys the lot of them!

DonkeyStyle \o/

By 'cage fighting', did they mean something along the lines of UFC?
Or is there some kind of bare-knuckle to-the-death cage fighting I'm unaware of
tbh I don't see UFC as being any worse than a boxing match... but I'm sure Rupert Murdoc has some vested interests in boxing, so shhh, better not criticize that. :rolleyes:

lostexpectation

thing i find about this is it looks scrappy, if you know what i mean...

dlofnep

lostexpectation wrote:

thing i find about this is it looks scrappy, if you know what i mean...

I don't. Do tell..

cmb.

MaeveD wrote:

Wow....just tuned onto sky news and they had a five minute spot on cage fighting.... described it as human cock fighting... groups looking for it to be banned in the UK... no such thing as bad advertising? what do you guys think?

yes there is such a thing as bad advertizing as SEG found out - for all the intelligent and well researched arguements that people can put forward it just takes 1 interview with a lee murray/jeremy bailey/tank or a fox/sky news exposé to overshadow that - as we have seen time and time again

Baggio...

Ban it.....Then you will see some real violence, as the sport goes underground.

That's when it will become really dangerours, when it's run by criminal scumbags.

Roper

It's just lazy tabloid journalism. There'll always be people who hate combat sports be it MMA or boxing. Remember the outcry after Michael Watsons injury?

And it can do damage, on a political level ie. getting events banned, but also on keeping younger kids out of the sport. "Hey Dad, I want to join an MMA club", "That human cockfighting I saw on Sky News? No chance son, go train with those nice points Kratty crowd".

Baggio...

Well put Roper.

damo

Gutter journalism 101.

The facts speak for themselves - if they want to bash a combat sport then bash boxing instead of making national heros out of Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe.

Special thanks has to go to that knacker Lee Murray for this one.

Unpossible

I always thought the cage was just a gimmic, makes it look more "hardcore" (as some americans would annoyingly say).

Valmont

It doesn't really make a difference to the bigger picture.

Look at Cage Rage and Cage Warriors, they are growing more and more popular each year.

It is just some muppets response to the growth of the sport.
I don't think it will affect anything really.

MaeveD

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

By 'cage fighting', did they mean something along the lines of UFC?
Or is there some kind of bare-knuckle to-the-death cage fighting I'm unaware of
tbh I don't see UFC as being any worse than a boxing match... but I'm sure Rupert Murdoc has some vested interests in boxing, so shhh, better not criticize that. :rolleyes:

Yep, it was in the UK, something along the lines of UFC... they showed Bas Rutten fighting and Mike Tyson was being interviewed too... I maybe mistaken but I think he was going to be a judge :eek:

The fight clips they showed were pretty harmless, no smashed bloody faces or knockouts as far as I remember.

Wouldn't an ordinary raised roped ring be dangerous for both fighters and spectators, surely the cage is safer??

Roper

That's one school of thought alright Maeve. There is a danger of fighters going out of the ring. However ropes are cheaper, more spectator friendly (better view, more action) and more PC as they exist for other more accepted combat sports.

I prefer rope to cage as I think it discourages lay and pray and keeps the ground and stand-up action more constant.

Dragan

MaeveD wrote:

Wow....just tuned onto sky news and they had a five minute spot on cage fighting.... described it as human cock fighting... groups looking for it to be banned in the UK... no such thing as bad advertising? what do you guys think?

And your guaranteed these are the same people who support the "gentlemans" sport of boxing and cheer when people concuss each other to the point of death in front of them.

It's just the usual lack of understanding and assuming that "Cage" = a bad thing.

I'm sure if they went to the events, or even watched some DVD's and saw the camraderie that can exist between fighters , the doctor stoppages for cuts that would be cleared in a boxing ring and the excellent referee decisions then they might change there mind.

However, in the court of public opinion it's always a case of hate what you don't know.

Valmont

MaeveD wrote:

Wouldn't an ordinary raised roped ring be dangerous for both fighters and spectators, surely the cage is safer??

Definitely, At UFR V up north last week, there were more than a few moments when the fighters were about to fall over the ropes and onto people drinking their pints right below them. They were being held in by their corners at one stage in a heavyweight fight.