A crowd of cage fighting fans in Arkansas went ape shit when the two combatants began tearing off their clothes and kissing. It took cops forty-five minutes to clear the irate masses, who were throwing beer bottles as if their lives depended on it, not realizing that the stunt was likely for Sasha Baron Cohen’s latest flick. Yet again Americans inadvertently make asses out of themselves. [Yahoo!]
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Trenton
The very fact that these people were at a cage-fighting event proves that they are complete asses…so their gay panic is actually a vindication. Just goes to show that brainless bloodlust and homophobia go hand in hand.
Kid A
That’s awesome.
Jude
Actually Trenton, I used to be a big fan of mixed martial arts and I am in no way a brainless, bloodlusting idiot. It has turned into a great, physically-demanding sport and its athletes deserve respect. A lot of fans act like complete morons, I’ll give you that, but I don’t think it’s fair to generalize like that.
Trenton
You are right…to each his own, Jude. Even I could enjoy a martial-arts display for its grace and for the prowess and skill of the athletes, but it’s lamentable that the contestants display it by barbarically knocking the snot out of each other.
Bear's Jelly up IN Sky
that is one of the funniest things I have ever heard. I HAVE to see this footage!
Jude
Well, it is a rough sport, but it isn’t any more barbaric than boxing, and is actually less damaging in the long run than boxing is. The whole cage aspect does give it a more barbaric feel, and at the beginning of the sport that’s what was intended, but now it evolved into a true physical and mental discipline. Many of the athletes are actually smart and outspoken, but of course, fighting sports will always attract macho tough guys who want to see a bloodsport. But the sport itself, regardless of many of its fans, has some very good aspects to it. I used to wrestle in college and that was incredibly rough to, but a wonderful activity to engage in.
Trenton
I consider boxing barbaric, too. I’m possibly the only person who complains at hockey games when fights break out. >:\
Indeed, mastery of any sport or martial art requires discipline, concentration, and cunning. I won’t knock the athletes (I’m sure that I’d regret it), but it’s still a disturbing thing to see people so entertained by live violence. Said Juvenal: Pane et circus. I suppose.
Jude
Actually I hate fighting during hockey matches too. Hockey fighting is barbaric because it stems from hate and frustration. MMA and boxing athletes, the good ones, know how to keep their feelings seperate from their game. They go in clear-headed and focus on technique rather than brutish brawl. It’s not the violence itself that is fun, but the skill and the technique. Most other fighters I’ve known actually hated violence in its pure state.
Then again, I’m somewhat playing devil’s advocate here, seeing as I haven’t watched a match since college, so about 2 years ago. Now I mostly do yoga đ
ProfessorVP
I once went to a fistfight and it broke out into a hockey game. What are the odds?
Snoodle
Lol…that’s fantastic.
As is probably was for Cohen’s film, my gawd the footage they’ve got to work with XD!
Ian J UK
This sort of “performance”, because that’s what it is has never and will never pass for wrestling, they stopped showing this stuff on UK TV when it became wide spread public knowledge that the performers where members of the actors union.
Lets be honest this stuff isn’t sport, it’s soft porn for frustrated housewife, who ain’t been banged for a few months.
porsha
“Oh, the humanity!” LOL
Willie Hewes
Ian, we’re not talking about wrestling. :/
I think this is very interesting, and definitely funny.
My boyfriend watches MMA matches sometimes, and a lot of Japanese wrestling. I remember one “comedy” match where the joke was that the fighters were gay and trying to get each other into bed (or maybe one of them was gay, I dunno, it was in Japanese O.o). They had duvets and were making out in the ring, it was weird/funny.
Nobody threw any beer bottles, AFAIK.
Terry
I lived in Arkansas for a very few, long years and remember well how they reacted offensively towards gay people (not to say this is true for all in Arkansas for I also met some very cool people too). The fact these guys started making out in front of these rednecks is awesome !!!!!
Alan down in Florida
Have you ever watched mixed martial arts folks? There’s nothing but shorts and jockstraps keeping this from being first class hard core rough gay sex between men with killer bodies. This ain’t for frustrated housewives. This is for closet cases looking for a societally acceptable outlet for male body to body contact.
michael
Fabulous!
Brandon
omg i cant wait to see the Bruno movie lol