UFC needs to ban trash talk

[RiskiestCookie]

I’m so sick of this trash talk BS in the UFC. It’s gotta go! This isn’t WWE, it's supposed to be a real sport. All this trash talk is making the UFC look like a damn circus and it’s ruining the sport.

First off, the trash talk has gotten way outta hand. Fighters crossing all kinds of lines just to sell fights. Remember when Conor McGregor insulted Khabib’s religion, dad, and wife? Or when Colby Covington called Brazilians "filthy animals"? It’s disgusting. We should be focusing on the athletes' skills and abilities, not who can talk the most crap.

And don't even get me started on how trash talk doesn’t make better fights. Sure, it sells tickets and gets views, but then we get cheap hype and lame fights. Fighters spend more time crafting clever insults than actually training, and it shows in the cage. We end up with boring, lackluster fights that don’t live up to the trash talk hype.

Plus, trash talk sets a bad example for younger fans and aspiring fighters. It promotes disrespect and unprofessional behavior. We should be encouraging sportsmanship and respect, not childish name-calling and playground antics.

UFC needs to crack down on this crap with stricter codes of conduct for press conferences and media. Let’s get back to focusing on the sport and the fighters' skills, not their ability to trash talk. This trash talk nonsense needs to stop now!

 

[Marko Polo]

 

[JayPettryMMA]

For a 2010 account, I expected better.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Things that are okay according to UFC:

• Calling your German opponent a Nazi
• Saying the women fighting in the main event should be fucking you instead of fighting
• Saying your opponent's head coach got terminal cancer from his team's bad performances
• Joking about 9/11
• Threatening to rape your opponent
• Calling your opponent an ethnic slur as long as you are not white
• Joking about your opponent's deceased father
• Implying your opponent's wife is cheating on him with you
• Threatening to break into your opponent's house and sexually assault his wife
• Threatening to kill your opponent's family
• Commentators calling active fighters pussies on social media

Things that are not okay according to UFC:

• Calling transgender fighters disgusting
• Calling your opponent "the biggest f** on earth"
• Joking about shopping carts preparing black kids for jail
• Joking about a "rape van"
• Flags of disputed territories in the Caucasus

EDIT: I put a lot of work into this just for the topic to get wastelanded

 

[Marko Polo]

Things that are okay according to UFC:

• Calling your German opponent a Nazi
• Saying the women fighting in the main event should be fucking you instead of fighting
• Saying your opponent's head coach got terminal cancer from his team's bad performances
• Joking about 9/11
• Threatening to rape your opponent
• Calling your opponent an ethnic slur as long as you are not white
• Joking about your opponent's deceased father
• Implying your opponent's wife is cheating on him with you
• Threatening to break into your opponent's house and sexually assault his wife
• Threatening to kill your opponent's family
• Commentators calling active fighters pussies on social media

Things that are not okay according to UFC:

• Calling transgender fighters disgusting
• Calling your opponent "the biggest f** on earth"
• Joking about shopping carts preparing black kids for jail
• Joking about a "rape van"
• Flags of disputed territories in the Caucasus

EDIT: I put a lot of work into this just for the topic to get wastelanded

- Anik bringing up custody battles

@Luthien

 

[fighters_respect]

For a 2010 account, I expected better.

Good job moderating this is an amazing forum wishing Sherdog all the best

 

[filthybliss]

This is a sport where people beat each other up for a living, you'd lose like 75% of the fighter base if trash talk was punitive.