I'm back with another installment of the MMA Tete-A-Tete: Coarsening the Discourse. Eugene S. Robinson author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Askingis my counter-part for this edition.
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Topics covered include:
* Reports of slow ticket sales for UFC 162 and the UFC's difficulties in building young fighters coming back to bite them in the ass in the case of Chris Weidman's title shot.
* Dana White's angry response to the Business Week article about low fighter pay. Eugene thinks Viacom's PR people planted the story.
* Our care/don't care preview of UFC 162.
Enjoy!
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