Smarty pants librul political blogger Matt Yglesias put a post up on the Atlantic web site about John McCain's anti-MMA stance (he calls it a "ban everything" view) and some knucklehead poseur had this to add in the comments:
If these oafs went up against a real fighter, they would be down in two seconds: their knee joint shattered by a kick and their windpipe crushed by a punch. Plus cranial bleeding from a kick to their temple.
"Dueling" is a stupid mindset -- on a battlefield, you destroy you enemy quickly. Because if you dick around waving your hands, his buddies will stick a knife in your kidney.
2) In the days when men carried 45s , you didn't have this Roman circus/bloodsport perversion.
Posted by Don Williams | March 13, 2008 9:26 AM
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) isn't bullshit or anything approximating "half-way decent". It's a very real sport with exceptional athletic talent who are highly trained in various disciplines ranging from amateur wrestling, Judo, jiu-jitsu, kick boxing, western boxing and more. Three of the disciplines I just mentioned, btw, are Olympic sports and it just so happens that fighters such as Matt Lindland (Silver Medlaist in Greco-Roman, 2000 Sydney Games), Hidehiko Yoshida (1992 Gold Medalist in Judo), Pawel Nastula (1996 Gold Medalist in Judo), Randy Couture (2x Olympic Alternate), Dan Henderson (2x Olympian in Greco-Roman) and Johnny Hendricks (3x NCAA National Champion Wrestler), Mark Hunt (K-1 World Champion), and Chael Sonnen (3x All-American NCAA Wrestler) all boast elite athletic accomplishments.
But don't believe. Come see for yourself. I invite you to come down to our gym, and come see how "bullshit" training and sparring in MMA really is. You seem to believe it's a whole lot of nothing, so I suspect you don't really mind getting on the mat and showing national champion wrestlers, world champion jiu-jitsu players and professional MMA fighters just how "bullshit" their sport really is.
Posted by Luke Thomas | March 13, 2008 9:38 AM
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