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I have just finished reading abook titled "BARE FISTS" by Bob Mee. It is basicly a book all about bare knuckle
boxing or gypsie fights. It goes back to old time fighters as far as 1860. The book is also subtitled, 'A World Of Violence Where Only The Brutal Survive'.
Anyway, as you get to the last chapter of the book, there is our sport, ULTIMATE FIGHTING. Great I thought, a British authour giving the sport some positive coverage......... I was Wrong.
Here are some qoutes from the book :
"The logical extention of this unlicensed brawling is the Ultimate Fighting craze that has swept America. This is a combination of all codes and of none of them: a hotch-potch of skills brought from a variety of martial arts allied to a basic aggressive instinct that takes us back 300 years."
" Boxing with bare knuckles developed as an art form in the 18th century from one form of principle: that it should not be misused, and should adhere to clear principles of disipline. However, Ultimate fighting has demolished all of the traditional codes. Competitors go into the cage rather than a ring - intentionally symbolic, surely - to batter each other into either submission or unconciousness in the most violent way possible."
"I found the official website of the Ultimate fighting
Championship, which claimed to be the premier mixed martial arts event in the world. It talk of it's ring as a proving ground. The major news was of a tournament in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in March 2000 in which one Kevin 'The Monster' Randleman was billed to fight Pedro 'The Rock' Rizzo. Radleman and Rizzo were descibed as 'athletes', which somehow swithched the attention to thier physical fitness and not what they were about to do to each other."
"John Perretti is the matchmaker for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. If you are interested in fighting, click here. In other words, it's principle is that anybody can have a go."
"A catalogue claiming to extend to 800 pages was of the UFC Japan. The synopsis was remarkably diferent to the pre-fight cosmetic hype and concentrated, not on athletiism or skill, but on the extent of violence on offer and on the machismo of competitors. It boasted, 'skull cracking, back breaking action is guaranteed"
"Ultimate fighting: A fad that draws huge television ratings."
"Mark 'The Hammer' Coleman: one of the new generation and type of fighting star........"
Bob Mee talks of bloody bare knuckle street battles and ring fights but condones our sport as barbaric. The front cover even has a picture of a guy on 'The Mount' of another, which is purely Ultimate fighting and not Bare knuckle Boxing, so he uses our sport to sell his book, but slags us off.
If a bare knuckle fighter, who intention is purely to knock someone unconcious, has tried to slander our sport in his book, then what hope does the UK and other countries have of making our sport grow?
boxing or gypsie fights. It goes back to old time fighters as far as 1860. The book is also subtitled, 'A World Of Violence Where Only The Brutal Survive'.
Anyway, as you get to the last chapter of the book, there is our sport, ULTIMATE FIGHTING. Great I thought, a British authour giving the sport some positive coverage......... I was Wrong.
Here are some qoutes from the book :
"The logical extention of this unlicensed brawling is the Ultimate Fighting craze that has swept America. This is a combination of all codes and of none of them: a hotch-potch of skills brought from a variety of martial arts allied to a basic aggressive instinct that takes us back 300 years."
" Boxing with bare knuckles developed as an art form in the 18th century from one form of principle: that it should not be misused, and should adhere to clear principles of disipline. However, Ultimate fighting has demolished all of the traditional codes. Competitors go into the cage rather than a ring - intentionally symbolic, surely - to batter each other into either submission or unconciousness in the most violent way possible."
"I found the official website of the Ultimate fighting
Championship, which claimed to be the premier mixed martial arts event in the world. It talk of it's ring as a proving ground. The major news was of a tournament in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in March 2000 in which one Kevin 'The Monster' Randleman was billed to fight Pedro 'The Rock' Rizzo. Radleman and Rizzo were descibed as 'athletes', which somehow swithched the attention to thier physical fitness and not what they were about to do to each other."
"John Perretti is the matchmaker for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. If you are interested in fighting, click here. In other words, it's principle is that anybody can have a go."
"A catalogue claiming to extend to 800 pages was of the UFC Japan. The synopsis was remarkably diferent to the pre-fight cosmetic hype and concentrated, not on athletiism or skill, but on the extent of violence on offer and on the machismo of competitors. It boasted, 'skull cracking, back breaking action is guaranteed"
"Ultimate fighting: A fad that draws huge television ratings."
"Mark 'The Hammer' Coleman: one of the new generation and type of fighting star........"
Bob Mee talks of bloody bare knuckle street battles and ring fights but condones our sport as barbaric. The front cover even has a picture of a guy on 'The Mount' of another, which is purely Ultimate fighting and not Bare knuckle Boxing, so he uses our sport to sell his book, but slags us off.
If a bare knuckle fighter, who intention is purely to knock someone unconcious, has tried to slander our sport in his book, then what hope does the UK and other countries have of making our sport grow?
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