Okay maybe not Evil but this to me is the scum of the earth! The Long Island Business News reported this Horrific story depicting our beloved sport as the no-holds barred spectacle of 1993 but worse. It disgusted and enraged me and I left the response at the end of the page. Please help set the record straight and show the power of MMA by leaving a comment to their site and get the page taken down or rewritten at least. Check It out and leave a comment but please don't play into their hands by leaving derogatory cuss words. I did call them idiots but I was very angry. Please try to keep it intelligent to show we are not 'Drooling' and bloodthirsty as they make it out to be. Not only that but it will further derail the bid to get MMA sanctioned in NYC. Thanks guys!

http://libn.com/blog/2010/12/3…..politics/?

Here was my response-

The hapless writer that wrote this slanderous piece of garbage deserves to be fired for his completely uneducated nonsense. The writer has decided to ignore the first rule about journalism in knowing about the subject you are informing others upon.

The following statement is absolutely ridiculous!!!!

“The “sport” pits two men in a ring allowing them to use skills of boxing, wrestling, jujitsu and kickboxing. In other words, it’s a bar fight spilling out into an alley taking place in a ring or cage in front of drooling, uh, cheering spectators. Since introduced in the United States in 1993 it’s grown by leaps, bounds and eye gouges ever since.”

First of all MMA is a sport regulated by many athletic commissions. Only the ones that are still living in the stone age are prohibiting it in their state.

MMA stands for Mixed Martial Arts so it does indeed fuse the elements of various martial arts together. Does it not take years to become proficient in one martial art let alone many? The answer is yes. In fact you shot yourself in the foot when you mentioned the word ‘Skills’ as that is about the only appropriate thing that is correct in this article. To get good at these arts it takes years of practice and SKILL.
Therefore it is very far from an alcohol fuelled bar fight or some underground ‘Fight club’ held out in an alley. The fans of which I am (and I take offence to your description of) are not barbaric bloodthirsty savages like you suggest but rather sports fans no different to the kind you would get at an NFL or NBA game.
There has never been eye gouges allowed in MMA EVER!!!!!!!!!

The LIBN editor should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this rubbish to be written!
This is total disgrace. Please go and RESEARCH the topic of MMA especially the RULES, REGULATIONS and DISCIPLINE involved.

Just for the record by sanctioning MMA in New York it would likely bring in far more than $11 million.

Please take this ridiculous article down and get a REAL writer to approach the subject from an intelligent viewpoint.

IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

I will personally be starting a campaign against this nonsense and the Long Island Business News due to your incompetence! For people dealing in Business you have no Idea how to deal with unfamiliar Business Models!

Your article is a disgrace!!!!!!!!!

Hey Dickey. You are totally right, I think I overeacted a bit but I got so angry and frustrated about the article my blood was boiling. I LOVE the sport of MMA. I really do. I always try to educate people about the technicalities, Controlled and timed aggression as opposed to mindless uncontrolled aggression, Sportsmanship and the mutual respect within the MMA environments so when I saw this I just started typing on my keyboard without thinking I was just typing whatever was coming into my head. If you re-read my response you'll pick up on it. I just can't stand people stereotyping Mixed Martial Artists that way.  Dr.Sick teaches people to fight for goodness sake! I've never seen any footage or read anything or heard anything bad about him EVER! yet if someone read that column then met Dr.Sick the next day and found out what he did for a living what would their preconceived perceptions be about him? It disgusts me totally that people are allowed to get away with this uneducated point of view and spreading it as facts to other uninformed people.

Great response TCMAG! Thats the kind of response they should be recieving.

Hey Peter, Welcome to the Forum buddy. If you're serious about becoming a serious Mixed Martial Artist my advice would be to join the members section of this site (I don't know if you have joined yet or not) and work your way through the video instructional's. Drill them over and over, master the basics and then move on to the more advanced techniques. There's so much incredible information in there, it honestly is the best instruction you will get anywhere. Dr.Sick and Coach Kiser are two of the kindest and best MMA coaches you will ever find. Their teaching style is excellent and you can't help but learn great stuff from them. My own personal MMA game has come on leaps and bounds since I started using the members section. Train Hard and efficiently. Hope that helps you a bit. Good luck Buddy!