Greg Cote is a Boob
May 30, 2008 · Filed Under Sports
This might be one of the dumbest op-eds I have ever read. First of all MMA is a great sport. MMA is not the name of a league in competition with UFC.
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Here I go, once again, courting your displeasure. I’ve watched a fair amount of MMA on TV, and I have to say that it hasn’t hooked me as a spectator sport. First all the caveats: the competitors are obviously great athletes. I couldn’t do what they do. Most people can’t. And it’s an interesting sport conceptually, because it does a pretty good job of testing who could beat up who in a real world fight. But with all of that said, most MMA matches look a lot like wrestling matches to me, with the big difference being that the winner gets to choke the loser unconscious or sit on his chest and beat the shit out of him. Every so often you’ll see a really unexpected submission hold, but for the most part, it’s choking and chest sitting. I’d rather watch something with a ball and a score.
MMA fans everywhere are now invited to tell me how stupid I am for not getting it.
I don’t blame you for not getting it. That’s fine. To think that it is some sort of abomination that shouldn’t be shown on network TV is silly. It is just as justified as boxing. It isn’t about tearing a guy’s arm off and beating him with it as Cote would have you believe.
I love MMA. I don’t need everyone else to love it too, but to disrespect it the way Cote does screams of the same stuff thrown on NASCAR before its rise to HUGE popularity. I don’t care if you don’t get it, but you have to respect it for doing something right. Cote refuses to do that, and he demeans a whole bunch of people.
I get indifference, but his opinion is STRONG.