Then again, maybe one doe$ not; what is even MORE DISTURBING is the ABOVE-the-FOLD, FEATURE PHOTO and ARTICLE PLACEMENT by the Boston Globe:
"Rage in cage a knockout in Mass.; Ultimate fighting’s debut set to break box-office records" by Bob Hohler, Globe Staff | August 25, 2010
Blood will be spilled and brains rattled. Body parts will be wrenched and battered, some damaged.
MODERN-DAY GLADIATORS pushing the WAR MENTALITY, great!!!
How DARE this nation or its MSM talk NONVIOLENCE and PEACE!?!
Caged men will fight, and a 21st-century crowd with a taste for primal combat rooted in ancient civilizations will spend big money to celebrate the spectacle.
Anyone tell the Globe we are in the middle of an economic Depression?
Oh, right, not the class or clientele they serve (and the only ones left reading them really).
It’s the Ultimate Fighting Championship, once a widely banned novelty decried as “human cockfighting,’’ now one of the world’s fastest-growing sports — a smash hit from Boston to Belfast to Abu Dhabi.
And they threw Michael Vick in jail?
And what a SAD COMMENTARY on the STATE of the WORLD!
Bring back the SOCCER HORNS!!
I'd rather here them all day long.
They can even play to a 0-0 tie.
Newly sanctioned by Governor Deval Patrick and the Legislature amid the hunt for fresh revenue, the UFC will debut in Massachusetts Saturday at TD Garden as one of the highest-grossing events ever on Causeway Street.
Yeah, when it comes to the $$$$ then PRINCIPLES and LOFTY MORALITY are OUT the WINDOW!
What else would you expect from an war-loving Empire?
With box-office prices ranging from $75 to $600, the UFC’s inaugural mixed martial arts night in Boston is expected to generate nearly $4 million in ticket sales and pump an additional $6 million into the recession-racked local economy.
Overstated, agenda-pushing estimates; they always are when they come from agenda-pushing government and its newspapers.
No single indoor sports event in Boston history has generated a greater financial boon for the state, industry analysts said....
With as many as 1 million customers also projected to spend $45 each for a pay-per-view broadcast of the event, the UFC has gone from banned-in-Boston to striking it rich in the Bay State.
And next up?
CASINOS!
“However they have figured out the magic formula, the UFC is without a doubt a very, very hot property,’’ said Patrick Moscaritolo, president of the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau. “It’s going to give a great kick to our economy.’’
I give up on leaders. Self-serving slime-scum.
The UFC, at its core, is a melange of martial arts: jiujitsu, judo, karate, wrestling, boxing, and kickboxing, among others. Barefoot combatants, wearing only trunks and small gloves, battle for three five-minute rounds in an octagonal cage to try to knock the other out or beat the other into submission. They rely on maneuvers aptly described as rear naked chokes, guillotines, and mounted crucifixes, complemented by powerbombs, neck cranks, and head kicks.
Yeah, yeah, I've seen some of it over the s***head's house.
Forbidden is the worst back-alley brutality — eye-gouging, head-butting, hair-pulling, and biting — that marginalized the UFC as a freak show before new owners took over in 2001.
“In the early days, the UFC was kind of renegade,’’ TD Garden president John Wentzell said. “That’s not the case anymore. It’s gone mainstream.’’
Which parallels the decline of the newspaper. How odd.
The blockbuster weekend promises to generously reward the Vegas-based UFC for spending two years and nearly $225,000 lobbying Beacon Hill to enact regulations sanctioning the sport.
Yes, if you HAVE the MONEY you can WRITE the BILL!
Despite some objections — “I think it’s barbaric to put people in cages and allow them to beat each other up,’’ said Representative Barbara L’Italien, an Andover Democrat — the Legislature last fall overwhelmingly approved a new State Athletic Commission to govern mixed martial arts. Patrick signed the bill last November, clearing the way for regulated caged combat in the state.
It's SO US, AmeriKa!!!
Of course, you can always switch over to "Dancing with the Stars" or some sick CSI s*** if you don't like the brawling.
Or you could go down to any bar and start stirring s*** up.
Why not live the dream?
“It’s going to be the biggest fight event in Massachusetts history,’’ said Todd Grossman, a member of the athletic commission and deputy general counsel of the state Department of Public Safety....
Grossman, who helped write the Massachusetts mixed martial arts law, said some UFC opponents lack a full understanding of the sport.
Oh, he even WROTE IT FOR THEM!
Yup, SERVING YOU, citizen of the Commonwealth!
And WHAT is so difficult to understand about WANTON VIOLENCE?
“There is blood involved, and when there is blood involved, people cringe,’’ Grossman said. “But these are highly trained athletes who are incredibly skilled in the martial arts.
Then LET'S PUT WAR-MONGERING LEADERS in the RING and let them decide the wars that way instead of LYING THEIR WAY to the MASS MURDER of MILLIONS (with the same war-criminal enablers of the AmeriKan MSM)!!!
“People who aren’t really educated about the sport choose to see only the blood, and they say, ‘How can we allow it?’ But you can argue that mixed martial arts are safer than boxing and some other contact sports, like football.’’
That is not going to win you any converts!
AmeriKans LUUUUUUUUVVVV their FOOTBALL!
It CROWDS OUT ALL OTHER thoughts and activities!
Several fighters have died competing in mixed martial arts, but never in a UFC event. I'm waiting for the first one to see what happens then.
More regulation, right, because there i$ never any going back.
The most serious injuries yet diagnosed among UFC fighters have been broken bones as well as joint and tissue damage....
Of course, NO ONE REALLY KNOWS the LONG-TERM IMPLICATIONS of getting BASHED in the SKULL and other parts of the body.
See all them old-time footballers hobbling around?
Indeed, many fans relish both the carnage and the arena experience. Saturday’s lavishly produced event — replete with lighting effects and booming theme music for each combatant — will feature a title fight....
I'll pass on the PPV, thanks.
“The Garden is going to be filled to the rafters and the energy level is going to be amazing,’’ said Daniel Farrell, a 36-year-old entrepreneur so enthusiastic about the UFC that he plans to open a “Soul Mind Fist’’ retail store in Plainville selling mixed martial arts gear. “It’s going to be like a rock concert and a full-contact chess match all in one.’’
That's all right.
Maybe I'll take some time off and sit back and watch something that sends the exact opposite message (as I tear up a bit).
I need my escapes, too -- for sanity's reason if nothing else -- and it ain't in football or fighting!
Breaking records is nothing new to the UFC.
Yeah, I know.
The fight club earlier this year packed arenas in Sydney, Abu Dhabi, and Montreal. After Boston, it’s London in October, Oberhausen, Germany, in November, and Dublin next March. At nearly every stop, sales marks have been broken and the UFC’s value has risen through the fiscal stratosphere....
UFC has eclipsed boxing and professional wrestling, whose pay-per-view numbers the UFC has dwarfed....
Dying "sports."
Pick a sports-themed product — video games, DVDs, cable television shows, closed-circuit broadcasts, action figures, trading cards, magazines — and the UFC ranks first or among the leaders in global sales....
Soon they will be overtaking even NASCAR!
TD Garden officials said Saturday’s event may threaten the facility’s overall record for a single event, set in 2006 by Barbra Streisand....
Uh-oh!!
The weekend extravaganza also promises a big payday for the state, which will receive 5 percent of the gross ticket sales (1 percent is earmarked for a fund for injured fighters) plus $75,000 of the broadcast revenues. The windfall includes state taxes on merchandise sales, meals, lodging, liquor, and other sources....
Yeah, ain't it great they raised taxes, Bay-stater!?
Un-flipping-believable!
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And are we really supposed to take the Globe and its anti-violence agenda seriously anymore?
They seem to have NO PROBLEM with SANCTIONED VIOLENCE!
Hell, they PROMOTE IT to the point of MASS MURDER and call it "progress."
