Because it promotes violence
UFC mixed martial arts events have banned firearms, ammo and knife companies from events sponsored at Zuffa promoted events. I’d boycott it but I don’t watch it anyway.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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January 25th, 2012 at 9:49 am
These are the folks whose fights on TV don’t allow hitting below the belt or choking, both favorites of martial arts techniques? Because they want a nice clean fight, not a real one? The ban on real weapons follows from their basic premises of acceptable forms of violence – their sport is ludicrous, one step above WWE.
January 25th, 2012 at 10:26 am
Well, since I’m too old to step into the Squared Parallelogram (and too fat and ugly to wear Speedos), I guess for those of us who WON’T be attending any MMA Schools, I’ll just have to stick with the old standby of a Gun with Good Ammo in it and a Good Knife.
And NOT have the TeeWee tuned to those TeeWee Shows.
January 25th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
You might be thinking of the old K-1, but chokes are definitely not allowed.
The sport doesn’t allow a lot of things that say, a krav maga or aikido specialist, might do in response to an arm bar or a choke. Groin grabbing, eye gouging, throat poking, cheek fishhooking, finger and toe joint locking, biting, etc aren’t allowed…so yeah, it’s not a “real fight”, and you don’t have to worry about getting kicked in the head by the other guy’s buddy while you’re on the ground scrambling for that heel hook or arm triangle.
But it’s definitely NOT like WWE at all, and it’s a fantastic workout.
January 25th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
(That first sentence should read “chokes are definite not illegal).
Lots of MMA fights are won via choke.
January 25th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Well I do watch it, along with about 20-30 of my friends, but not this Saturday I guess. Maybe not even again. What a huge misstep for Zuffa to alienate a ton of their audience. They should have just told FOX to piss off and done pay-per-view like always. Was Zuffa not making enough money that they needed FOX?
January 25th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
As much money as PPV generates, being on Fox and getting a cut of commercial probably pays orders of magnitude more. Certainly more than ammostore.com advertisements on dude’s MMA boardshorts pay.
It’s annoying for pro-rights folks, but it’ll damage them about as much as not letting you trade guns or pay for them has destroyed eBay and PayPal.
Given how difficult patrolling piracy is getting, my guess is they know the writing on the wall is pretty well dried for the PPV model. Hell, they were complaining about it this morning on Yahoo New’s MMA page.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=ki-iole_mma_mailbag_012412
FWIW…sorry, I just don’t buy the argument he’s making (ie just because you think something’s overpriced doesn’t give you the right to steal it).
Actually…people would be less inclined to pirate it if they didn’t charge such a ludicrous amount for what is often a questionable product. People know when they’re being gouged. But putting that aside, people going to some offshore virus and spamware addled site to watch a stream of the action isn’t much different than going down to the local watering hole. Either way you’re watching it for free.
January 25th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
As Doc Holliday would say (from Tombstone movie), “how cosmopolitan!”
I’ve been in martial arts for over 30 years, including TKD, Krav Maga, Judo, and boxing, but I’ll give UFC a miss.
Wouldn’t want to be violent.