The UFC is NOT a Sport!

*To start, apologies for no post on Friday. Internet complications*

Understand This: Sport is Different from Entertainment

Over the weekend we had probably the biggest card ever at UFC 100 in Las Vegas. My focus is not going to be on what the results were, although congrats to Canadian George St-Pierre for retaining his title, but rather the UFC product in general.

Watching mixed martial arts highlights on Sports Centre is nothing out of the ordinary but watching my first event live on Saturday night left a lasting impression. And not exactly in the best of ways.

Watching some of the lighter weight classes wasn't to bad considering there was actual SKILL and martial arts taking place. Certain fighters in the higher weight class do possess actual skill but the co-main event between Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir was a disgrace. Having a 275 pound man jump on someone else, hold him down in a head lock and just pound his head, punch after punch, until he's knocked out doesn't belong on pay per view or TV in general. This is the type of behaviour that belongs in the zoo with two monkey's duking it out. Or even between a couple of crack whores, in a dingy alley way at 5am on a Tuesday. This is a disgusting excuse for a sport.

The brutality is unbearable for many but for others it is being able to feel as if you're the person beating someone up. It puts anger in many people's mind. Proof of that is if you're at a bar with a bunch of morons who think it's their fight their winning. The crowd reminds me of the small town, low income, drunk and stupid hicks who watch World Wrestling Entertainment.

Notice the key word 'Entertainment.' Of course wrestling is fake and UFC is real, but please tell me the other differences. Both have story lines that are set up. Both have the same trashy fans. And both, have global appeal. They also both have women running around in skimpy outfits, but that is something that goes on the pro side, rather than the con.

Ask yourself this: why did Brock Lesner not succeed in WWE? He had no personality to carry story lines to the max. So, why is it when he joins UFC he's an outspoken, pompous stooge? He is being fed lines to build the hype of fights. Then you look into the crowds, or see the die hard fans watching this "sport" at a bar. Is there any difference? No. I saw grown men standing on chairs at a bar and signalling the notion that they personally had won a title belt. Same bone heads as in the WWE.

The bottom line is that at least the WWE knows what it is. And that's being a world wide Entertainment corporation. The UFC is trying to turn mixed martial arts into a brutal, blood filled sport, which it is not. Accept the fact you're an 'entertainment' company and a pretty poor example of that to children around the world. No wonder there's so much violence in this world. Look at the shit we have to watch on television.

What's on TV this week:

MLB All-Star Home Run Derby - TONIGHT

MLB All-Star Game - Tuesday featuring Toronto's Roy Halladay and Aaron Hill

Canada's Next Top Model Finale - Tuesday

DAVID BECKHAM on Regis and Kelly - Wednesday

Thumbs Up: Thumbs up to Canadian coffee chain Tim Horton's for breaking into the New York City market. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere! Thumbs Down: Thumbs down to all these young women in our world who for some fucked up reason are dating 30-something year old men. In the past two weeks, two dumb bitches in their early 20's have killed thier sports icon husband/lover who has been in their mid 30's. PSYCHO BITCHES! R.I.P. Gatti and McNair.

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