TWO Newsletter Poll: Bloodsports, are they wrong?

[Darkstar]

Bloodsports, be it MMA, Boxing ect, are they wrong? Is the spectacle of grown men hitting each other barbaric? We live in supposedly civilized times, so is there a place for this?

[Telf]

Not in my opinion,

I'm a big MMA fan, particularly of the UFC and how it's going at the moment. No-one has ever died inside the octagon or had a really serious injury that has majorly affected their lifestyle. It is real fighting, but it is well controlled, the ref will end it if the guy is getting pumelled

As far as boxing goes, apart from the death records, it's very similar in the fact that it's controlled by an official

[Anime_Otaku]

I would not call MMA or boxing a Bloodsport at all, i'd class fox hunting as a bloodsport as to me it would mean killing something. What i would consider a bloodsport is out of place in society today i believe but as the question refers to MMA and Boxing then no they are not.

[wyndorf]

I'm with Tajiri here. MMA and Boxing are not 'Bloodsports'. They're combat sports. More humans have died hunting foxes than have died in the octagon and boxing ring. MMA and Boxing ARE pretty safe, under the correct conditions. So for me, they're both good forms of entertainment.

[Darkstar]

I guess HUMAN BLOODSPORTS would have been a better title/question.

[Inno]

I voted yes as I presumed it meant fox hunting. Dammit.

MMA is perfectly alright, nothing wrong with it as long as it's all securely monitored, as UFC is.

[BRM]

Or Combat sports

I guess a wrestling board is the wrong sort of place to ask this sort of question considering many people have some sort of intrest in MMA and things along those lines.
As long as it's done under the correct circumstances and all licences are correct and in order then i have no problem with them at all.

I was even for Foxhunting, however the pro foxhunters drove me up the wrong way and i lost all sympathy that i had for them so i'm glad it got banned.

[Boyo]

Nothing wrong with a bit of UFC, is what I say.

Cheers!