Spike TV and the UFC.

Professur

Professur

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Spike TV (formerly the New TNN, formerly TNN), blown away with the success of last season's Ultimate Fighter reality show, has joined once again with UFC to provide more of what people (men) seem to want : bloodshed and violence.

Not only will they be airing Ultimate Fighter 2 (with bigger fighters, and a better chance of watching someone ride away in an ambulance), but they're also carrying a weekly showing of past fights, a la WWF, but without the scripts. Uncensored, and in all thier glorious bloodshed. Is Vince McMahon worried about losing his audience margin? Doubtful. In fact, this should improve his ratings, as more and more people adict themselves to the vicarious adreneline rush of watching others beat themselves into submission, while they sit safely in their homes. But we should be worried.

No longer is this unrestrained level of violence limited to high dollar pay-per-view. Now it's right there for all to wallow in. And the reprecussions in a world where boys giving each other titty-twisters involves police and courts ....

Aren't we supposed to be making the world a better place for our children?? If it's not protectionism to rediculous extremes, it's exposure to rediculous extremes.
 
Professur said:
Aren't we supposed to be making the world a better place for our children??
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Clearly, you have not been living in the same world that I have. :shrug:
 
Since it's on cable/satelite & not regular free TV...GO CAPITALISM!!!
 
I sit through those commercials, waiting for CSI to come back on. I generally watch Spike only for CSI and maybe MXC if I can catch it. MXC is freakin hilarious if you listen to all the dubbing.

Just the commercials make me cringe. I can't imagine that I would make it through a whole show. Has anyone actually watched this? The fact that it's not faked makes it that much worse for me.
 
greenfreak said:
I sit through those commercials, waiting for CSI to come back on. I generally watch Spike only for CSI and maybe MXC if I can catch it. MXC is freakin hilarious if you listen to all the dubbing.

Just the commercials make me cringe. I can't imagine that I would make it through a whole show. Has anyone actually watched this? The fact that it's not faked makes it that much worse for me.
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The last fight of the night featured one guy taking an elbow to the bridge of the nose, causing what looked to be a 2 to 3 inch cut, bone deep. The cut openned and closed whenever they touched the tip of his nose. And the guy's walking around, mad cos the fight was stopped.
 
Professur said:
The last fight of the night featured one guy taking an elbow to the bridge of the nose, causing what looked to be a 2 to 3 inch cut, bone deep. The cut openned and closed whenever they touched the tip of his nose. And the guy's walking around, mad cos the fight was stopped.
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Interesting...You lambaste the very show that you, yourself, happen to watch. I've never seen it, nor do I have plans to do so. As for the protection of my children, that's my job. Not the FCC. Not the state government. Not you. Me. I believe that's called parental responsibility. Now if I don't have the backbone to protect my kids, you may rant all you wish. ;)
 
Gato_Solo said:
Interesting...You lambaste the very show that you, yourself, happen to watch. I've never seen it, nor do I have plans to do so. As for the protection of my children, that's my job. Not the FCC. Not the state government. Not you. Me. I believe that's called parental responsibility. Now if I don't have the backbone to protect my kids, you may rant all you wish. ;)
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Sorry, Gato, but I don't believe in lambasting something with out experiencing it first. Now, I can say in informed honesty that it's far too brutal for unrestricted broadcast. And I won't watch it again.

But to complain against it blindly, IMHO, would be a greater crime. No?
 
Professur said:
Sorry, Gato, but I don't believe in lambasting something with out experiencing it first. Now, I can say in informed honesty that it's far too brutal for unrestricted broadcast. And I won't watch it again.

But to complain against it blindly, IMHO, would be a greater crime. No?
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Not fixed... just made 'safer'... which seems to be the opposite direction of what they presume to promote. The original UFC from a decade or so ago had only two rules in the start: No biting and no eye gouging. Pretty soon they started to add on little bits and pieces of what wasn't allowable until it became a feeble chokeout greco-roman yawnfest. This new thing.. since its on normal cable.. I figure that it too would have a basket of no-no behavior to keep them from hurting each other and make them cry.
 
unclehobart said:
Not fixed... just made 'safer'... which seems to be the opposite direction of what they presume to promote. The original UFC from a decade or so ago had only two rules in the start: No biting and no eye gouging. Pretty soon they started to add on little bits and pieces of what wasn't allowable until it became a feeble chokeout greco-roman yawnfest. This new thing.. since its on normal cable.. I figure that it too would have a basket of no-no behavior to keep them from hurting each other and make them cry.
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So then, you don't think it's fixed?
 
I can't rightly say on the new show. The old UFC certainly wasn't. Those SOB's tried to kill each other. Of all the martial artists, 575 pound wrestlers, and world ranked shootfighters there were, the undisputed god was Royce Gracie... a perfectly normal 6'1 180lb Brazilian Jujitsu leverage submission master.
 
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