after watching UFC 98 I did get a sudden urge to buy some illegal guns.

This has been his stance from day one. He provides ZERO evidence that is even LINKED to MMA. I don’t understand how anyone can take him seriously. The only thing that can be going on is that everyone else feels the same as Reilly, but has no valid reason to say MMA should be banned from the state. Those people then ride the Reilly stupidity wagon because… hey, they aren’t saying insanely ridiculous facts, he is.

He’s either really that stupid, or he’s lying and saying whatever he can to keep a sport he personally dislikes out of NY, regardless of reality. It’s completely unethical of him. It shows a flaw of character that questions any other judgement he makes, regardless of the issue. The day he leaves public office can’t come soon enough.

My girlfriend, who watches boxing with me all the time, just can’t stand MMA, and it doesn’t really have anything to do with MMA now. She grew up in Japan, and she remembers Pride from the early days and whatnot, and the whole concept of beating the shit out of someone when they’re passed out and defenseless just rubbed her the wrong way. Now, even though I tell her the sport has changed and that half the stuff that made her stomach turn is illegal now, she still can’t really stomach it.

I suspect there are a lot of people who have that image in their mind, that MMA is still what it was like before it got cleaned up, and that it’s legalized ‘human cockfighting.’ Most of the people who think that probably aren’t the people who would want to watch MMA to begin with, and thus it’s pretty difficult to change their minds, even if perception flies in the face of fact.