One Random Irish Guy Calls For MMA Ban, Bashes Conor McGregor After MMA Death

Fuckin' nonsense!

Middle-aged men hate MMA, they'd rather shoot it down then get familiar with a whole new sport. The stats simply don't support his outrage.
 
kammfreudenstei said:
^I heard people didn't actually die in the coliseum, or at least it was not always to the death. Anyone enlighten me?
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Overpressure said:
True.
Irrelevant to the actual, intelligent discussion as it's a ridiculous comparison, but true.
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BJPENN4WIN said:
Roman history is one of my favorite time periods. You are correct in the statement that death in the arena between two gladiators was fairly rare. Generally speaking they spent a lot of time, effort and currency bringing these fighters up and if one were to be executed by the others gladiator the executioners master generally had to pay expenses to cover the others loss. On another side note I've always found it interesting how gladiators are portrayed. They weren't the muscled up warriors you would expect but generally fairly overweight as the extra fat acted as an armor to reduce fatal blows.
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Death in gladiatorial combat wasn't rare. Estimated between 1 in 5 or 1 in 10 leading to death. Average lifespan of the gladiators was only mid 20's.

And originally, they were conquered peoples and slaves, but it did deviate from that eventually, since, like said above, it cost a lot of money to keep these guys housed and having guys stick around meant making more money in the long run. That isn't the time this guy is referencing, obviously. Dude is a dipshit.

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-roman-gladiators
 
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TheLuckiest said:
Fuck this anti-American fake flopping dipshit. Equating boxing and MMA to fucking slaves fighting trained killers for their freedom. Fuck outta here.
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It's just the fixation on America by Europeans, brought on by their massive inferiority complex and victim mentality. Everything has to relate back to us, their boogie man, somehow. Surprised he didn't refer to the United States as "Murica" and say something about shitty beer, since repeating stupid crap like that really seems to appeal to their herd mentality
 
yeah let em fight in backyards with no medical teams or health checks or a qualified ref who knows when to stop the fight

seems legit
 
Check his connections to Charles Barron.

Sounds like a typical useless pundit.
 
Makes some good points.

A ban would be silly though. To a certain extent, laws are intended to reflect prevailing cultural norms.

If Ireland tried to ban all of it's longstanding cultural institutions on the chance that they cause death or brain damage, you would have no Alcohol, no Catholics, and no fighting. You would have to fundamentally change Ireland's national and cultural identity lol. That shit isn't gonna work.
 
Jackonfire said:
“Something deep in us thrills to serious violence,” wrote Brolly. “Up to the end of the 19th century, public executions were the premier spectator sport in England. When Henry Fauntleroy was hanged a Newgate in 1824, the crowd was estimated at 100,000. If a smart promoter like Barry Hearn had been alive then, he’d have hired Michael Buffer to say, “Let’s get ready to haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang…” and get a half-naked dolly bird to hold up notices between executions....

“The truth is that violent sports are a rich man’s play thing, where poor men try to put each other into a coma for our amusement,” Brolly added. “These violent life-an-death sports are fun. They bring us to somewhere primitive inside us. It is why the spectators in the Colosseum gasped and cheered as the knife was thrust home.

Not bad.
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Very bad. Sounds like a condescending twat know it all. He wants to use historical facts to psycho analyze MMA fans? How about historical facts after that time period, like the millions who followed the nazi party and were racist toward black people.

We're an evolving species. This guy can fuck off, his literacy isn't fooling me into thinking he's anything more than a cunt
 
TheLuckiest said:
Death in gladiatorial combat wasn't rare. Estimated between 1 in 5 or 1 in 10 leading to death. Average lifespan of the gladiators was only mid 20's.

And originally, they were conquered peoples and slaves, but it did deviate from that eventually, since, like said above, it cost a lot of money to keep these guys housed and having guys stick around meant more money. That isn't the time this guy is referencing, obviously. Dude is a dipshit.

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-roman-gladiators
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Right on. Funny how 'Proximo', Russell Crowe's master in 'Gladiator' is actually kind of a Matt Hume, a Greg Jackson lol
 
People die every day from everything under the sun. Deaths in combat sports are rare, and as long as there are safeguards in place to minimize such occurrences, so be it.
 
kammfreudenstei said:
^I heard people didn't actually die in the coliseum, or at least it was not always to the death. Anyone enlighten me?
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If every single contest resulted in a dead gladiator, it wouldn't be worth it for slave owners to feed and train men just to lose them like that. Most fights were simply to first blood.

The fights to the death were generally reserved for big occasions or for executing criminals.
 
Joseph Budden said:
Very bad. Sounds like a condescending twat know it all. He wants to use historical facts to psycho analyze MMA fans? How about historical facts after that time period, like the millions who followed the nazi party and were racist toward black people.

We're an evolving species. This guy can fuck off, his literacy isn't fooling me into thinking he's anything more than a cunt
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Yeah but, how do you really feel?
 
Joe Brolly can go f himself. Anyone from Ireland or any other country that supports banning mma must also support banning boxing. If not then they can fuck off because their agenda is showing as well as their vagina.
 
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