Why ban it?

Lets let 'em Rumble

Love to watch

It's "all volunteer" let 'em have at it

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I personally LOVE MMA, & UFC!!!!!!! i watch all the fights, AND collect all the dvd's!!! i think that it is awesome!

I'm with you, sister! I love it too! But I question Kimbo coming in, he's just such a brawler and in dire need of conditioning... I could watch him all day on youtube, but in the ring, I'm not too impressed.

I thought Kimbo just got his ass kicked by some no name new comer (I read something about that)

To OP:

The original UFC was banned at one time. It was originally started by the Gracie family as a way to highlight their family form of Jujitsu. It was found to be (ahem) "too violent" and was banned from the air.

Enter Las Vegas, enter rules, enter typical American hoo-pla... and its back, a milder, gentler form of the same UFC thing, except this time with more rules.

Owned by a Las Vegas promotion company... the new UFC looks very similar to heavy weight boxing in that it is something you go to and watch with a beer in hand, etc.

It is a disgraceful attempt at polarizing martial arts, if you ask me.

I have studied Shaolin Kung Fu most of my adult life, and what the MMA people do is try to decentralize traditional martial arts and now claim THEIR martial arts is best. Which is crap. What we have never seen is a true Shaolin Master from the Shaolin Temple, step up and wipe the mat with these MMA pu$$ies. What we HAVE seen are some watered-down, Americanized Shaolin wanna-bees step into the ring with these MMA thugs, and get their butts whipped.

Personally, I think the UFC (etc) system is trying to tempt society at returning to the graphic notions of the ancient Roman Gladiators. The more graphic and bloody, the better... as long as the fans can have a nice fence between them and the MMA guys out in the octagon.

Perhaps, and this is speculation, there should be real gladiators in today's world. True real-death experience before your very eyes. I speculate that this would not be enough in the Wii, Playstation, X-Box generation... UNLESS of course, you could offer volunteers from the studio audience to come and play with the gladiators.

It would go past the "R" ratings of the movies we watch, and just for graphic content, would be rated "X"... and not because it contains any sexual gunk, just pure living real death. Is that what people want? It is what the Romans wanted..... I think there is a market for it in America, too.

Banning, banning, banning.... banning stuff doesn't always work... sometimes you just gotta let people see real blood and guts and let them get it out of their system. Give folks a mandatory 1-year stint in the U.S. Armed Forces, and let them take a peek into the real hell of battle. They don't have rules in war, they bomb people with a 2,000 pound bomb, and they die for real, you don't hit "re-set" and start your Wii game over....

Its like riding a roller coaster... you cheat death for a cheap thrill.... so, you watch a couple of apes bop each other in the head and put joint locks on each other. What's the big deal? It isn't even really all that graphic, actually...

If you want to see graphic, go to the front lines in a war zone, there's your true graphic actual life.

I don't see anybody banning war..... wee seem to like the idea of young men getting blown to bits (on both sides of the fight...)

MMA is the purest form of one on one combat. The ultimate testimate of a mans strenght and ability. It is an artform or at least should be. People that are for banning it think this way because they no nothing about the sport or the fighters. Most MMA fighters are the strongest (inner) people in the world. They have the most drive and most determination and passion out of any other sport.

Someday, get you a plane ticket to China, and go visit the Shaolin Temple. There you will find the purest form of martial arts on the planet.

UFC/MMA is a watered-down, Hollywood-ized, Las Vegas-owned freak show.

The Shaolins at the temple train harder. A ten year old at the Shaolin Temple is more impressive than a 30-something UFC (ahem) "warrior"... <<cough-hack-cough>>

Here in America, people sit in front of a television and soak in all the brainwashing an outfit needs to put out in order for you to be suckered into watching their sport. If you watch, they can sell commercials... and basically make money at it. Since the Las Vegas company took over the UFC, this is exactly what it has become.

I appreciate that you think they have drive and determination, but not the "most" of any sport.

Mix Chan Buddhism with Shaolin Kung Fu (that is what you have at the Shaolin Temple) and you will find a path to something beyond drive and determinations. Total inner peace through Kung Fu.

And you don't need an audience buying beer and peanuts to prove it.....

i dont like UFC there is more to MMA than that, i have never been there or seenthis kind of fighting i jus hate it wen people say its too brutal or violent i myself have trained and been in the cage twice both times i never felt more alive one on one putting it all out there for u not for anyone else thats wat its all about not spectaters watchin two people kick the sh!t outta each other people that watch it for that no nothing about fighting or the persaverance of a fighter

Since when has Shaolin Temple been a training ground for fighters? I mean the time after cultural revolution. It might have been one before but now it's just a circus-school, to put it bluntly.

First off, IT IS A SPORT! Those guys volunteer and train to do this. To the dude that started this, It IS Fighting, what is the problem with that? So What! And about the Olympics, Give me a Break! They are contemplating putting ballroom dancing in the Olympics for crying out loud! As a person who professes to "supposedly" train in all different types of martial arts. Why do you do that?

I don't see a problem with MMA, The UFC, Pride, or any other FIGHTING sport. It really can't be fixed like boxing, the guys are extremely good athletes, and I..ENJOY..Watching..It. Mono y Mono, the true test of a fighters ability.

As for Chuck saying they have issues. WHO DOESN'T! John McEnroe had issues, Ron Artest has Serious Mental issues, Pac-Man Jones has issues. You want to ban tennis, basketball, and football as well. Anyone who trains their entire lives to compete will have issues.

Get over yourself, turn the station, and shut the hell up.