The ghosts of the past just won’t stop haunting me

Every time the UFC decides to expand into a different market; it happens. The specter of John McCain running the sport into the ground and forcing it into unsanctioned barns and Indian reservations.

Alas, the UFC’s planned domination of Australia has proven no different as this article will testify to:

yet another badly researched article claiming MMA will bring about the apocalypse

With such sterling observations as:

‘It’s madness. If this was the animal world, the RSPCA would come down on you like a ton of bricks.’

(I can do stereotypes too)

I’m pretty sure if we made the animal world drive a F1 car down he streets of Monte Carlo we’d evoke a similar sort of reaction but the fact is:

Journalists just don’t care about being right anymore.

This isn’t just about MMA but almost all editorials and press releases across the entire spectrum of news, science articles are at the very best misleading if not completely incorrect. Political commentary is half assed and watered down and everything is sensationalised and watered down for a much patronised audience whom the truth doesn’t seem to mean a whole lot to.

It’s a mouthful I know but it’s the truth, Perhaps I’ll save the wealth of examples and proof of this for another article but when you examine this particular Australian editorial… They called it ‘pound and ground’… they got even that wrong; not to mention claiming it was illegal to throw in the towel (yeah it’s a foul, like spoiling your vote, it’s half the point).

This happened when the UFC came to Germany earlier this year and I fear it’s not the last time it will come up. While their are still people in this world who resist womens boxing becoming an Olympic sport and even those who still do not accept boxing; there will be millions who get up in arms when they see a person being ‘pounded and grounded’ (sic)

Just be aware that the majority of the public still doesn’t even know what MMA is and arm yourself for the inevitable argument and defence against those who fail to comprehend the difference between violence and sport.