It took a little time, but Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald finally circulated their requisite Chicken Little dance in the form of a column by Malcolm Brown.
Indeed, what if there were no more Queensberry rules? Might fighters actually have an opportunity to enter their middle age without need for a drool cup and adult diapers?
I have a genuine respect for articulate claims that combat sports are exercises in brutality -- after all, they are. But the ignorance and hypocrisy inherent in advocating boxing -- which has plainly murdered hundreds of its own participants -- while finding issue with MMA is a special and spectacular kind of stupid. If your attitude is that cruelty for spectators’ amusement should be abolished, you begin and end with the sport that actually has a mortality rate.