Martial arts has never been a bully-free zone and martial arts have often had close ties with fascism. the Gracie family were the rich fascist adjacent bullies and yet they are the ones that are valorized and that have the legends told about them while the luta livre crowd existed in parallel...
The sportswashing has certainly increased and the dogwhistles recently more blatant, but we'd be lying to ourselves if we didn't admit MMA and real martial arts werent always somewhat chuddy(see theUG/mmatv circa 2005). It doesn't have to be, but the fanbase simply was and is for the most part.
I completely lost interest with the UFC after GSP retired, and it seemed that Dana was happy to trade-in the sport's hard won mainstream respectability, for the full heel-turn into Colby Covington land.
The last 20 years seeing UFC get inexplicably popular (I blame WCW going under & the very stale WWE monopoly sending a big chunk of their base looking for a replacement. Heavyweight boxing was already dead) & turning Dana White from failure to sports mogul has been nauseating.
Vince I let out the biggest “fuck yea” reading you got upgraded seats for Silva-Sonnen I. Also, was Tito ever actually Huntington Beach mayor or did he just run for that and settle for his comical tenure as city councilman?
Conor McGregor is a buffoon. It seems that a role in government is the new destination of choice for clowns, instead of the circus. These hateful morons are stinking up the planet with their anti-intellectual and hateful idiocy. Are the people who support them BLIND?
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I completely lost interest with the UFC after GSP retired, and it seemed that Dana was happy to trade-in the sport's hard won mainstream respectability, for the full heel-turn into Colby Covington land.