MMA always struck me as something that wasn't trying to determine who a "world champion" is but instead to put on a spectacle of brutality. Boxing on the other hand always seemed to be a proper "sport" in the sense that it wasn't just outright pursuing brutality.
I think MMA has mellowed a bit with time compared to its earlier days but it's still carrying that stuff. It's how it built up its early success and attracted people, it always seemed a lot like a no-rules fight pit.
I think like a lot of boomers he's just aged and reached a point where he just chooses comfort over anything that might resemble struggle. Some of this misjudgement might also be coming from experiences when he was younger too, given that he says he's known him in personal capacity since he was 19 or 20 years old.
Fight sports were cooler when Ali and Tyson were openly supporting communists.
You still get the occasional leftist in boxing. MMA is chud central though for whatever reason and UFC in particular is especially bad.
MMA always struck me as something that wasn't trying to determine who a "world champion" is but instead to put on a spectacle of brutality. Boxing on the other hand always seemed to be a proper "sport" in the sense that it wasn't just outright pursuing brutality.
I think MMA has mellowed a bit with time compared to its earlier days but it's still carrying that stuff. It's how it built up its early success and attracted people, it always seemed a lot like a no-rules fight pit.
Idk what he actually thinks but Andre Petroski has a hammer and sickle tatted on his side.
Wdym? They were?
Tyson has Mao and Che Guevara tattoo'd on his body
Ali had a few things to say:
Ali was on NSA watchlists and actively spied on for his anti-vietnam stuff too.
The left doesn't talk about Tyson because of the rape though, obviously. But fighting sports never used to be dominated by the far right like today.
Muhammad Ali? I see? Tyson's strikes me more as an edgelord, considering he decided to endorse Trump tho...
Trump has personally helped Tyson and they're "friends" so I think he's compromised in that regard. I don't think his support back in the day was pretend or just edge though.
I think like a lot of boomers he's just aged and reached a point where he just chooses comfort over anything that might resemble struggle. Some of this misjudgement might also be coming from experiences when he was younger too, given that he says he's known him in personal capacity since he was 19 or 20 years old.
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