so i’m not much into UFC, but i have many friends who are so i hear lot of little bits about it. so, if you didn’t hear, last Saturday after the main fight the guy who won flipped off the crowd who was booing him.
fast forward to now; my FB, google page, yahoo page have been totally full of people decrying the winning fighter’s actions, with great disgust and horror, and contempt.
but let me get this straight, as a UFC fighter you are supposed to train your body and mind to damage & destroy your opponent as quickly as possible. and if you get good, you end up on huge pay-per-view title bout where millions of people pay money to see you fight and try to almost kill each other without killing each other. correct?
we also need to note that this last fight was billed for weeks on the radio/tv that it would produce the “undoubted world champion, etc, etc.”. ok, so if you won last Saturday night you were quite possibly the toughest to kill, most able to kill a person with your bare hands person in the world.
are you still tracking with me?
nobody else in the world can beat him up and drunk fat people in the stands were booing him!
so am i defending the guy? no, he can do that quite well on his own. but here is what i am saying; people are upset at his actions, but they are paying money to see two guys fight, and fight in a big way. welcome to the most advanced civilization in the world! we pay money to have men try and knock each other out. i can just see it, someone sitting at the arena in a box seat they paid thousands of dollars for, drinking $100 bottle wine and eating fancy cheese, exclaim at the end of the fight as they are being flipped off “oh my, that man is awful, i cant believe how rude and disgusting he is!”
this is the reality of our world.
this is odd to me.
While I did not watch the UFC fight, and have been spared from this particular story, I have often wondered why people enjoy it. I don’t get any sport that’s sole purpose is to practically kill another human being.
So I agree with you. It doesn’t make any sense that people are peeved that this guy was rudely gesturing at them. What exactly do they expect?
i didn’t mention it in this article but i would relate this to during the last olympic’s when the sprinter Bolt clobbered everyone else in the field and turned as he won and spread his arms in a “how did you like that” move. people got so mad, honestly it didn’t bother me. run faster than him, then you can mock him.
i hope in all this that i’m not suggesting that if you the best at something you should mock those below you, but i feel that with sports in particular this is a common theme. what is a slam dunk in basketball? spiking the football? tossing the ball around the horn after a strike out?
way to long of a reply….i appreciate your comment!
Micah I like the way you think!
thanks. have you noticed that a theme for man, since the dawn of time, is that each generation of man things he is “new” or “post” or “pre” or some sort of moniker that means we are different than those before. i think human’s have pretty much always have been the same and will always be the same, it just looks a little different each time era.