Caged Combat!

[VictorG]

Caged Combat is coming to Missoula. For those of you who don't know what this is, it is no holes bared, anything goes fighting. Martial Arts, boxing any combination of anything someone wants to use.

The commercial I saw for it showed one fighter sitting on the others chest and beating the crap out of the guy on the bottom. Punching his head side to side with impunity!

I guess some people can call this "sport" but IMO, what the HELL are we as a society doing promoting this! People are actually taking their kids to watch this crap! Is this what we want to teach our children? And YES, it IS much more violent that boxing!!!! Why not go all the way and provide beer/whiskey bottles to hit each other with. Why not baseball bats? Who knows, maybe that's added in later rounds!

Heck, what's next! televised street gang fights? We could have a competition to see who has the toughest gangs in the county! Why not bring back "quick draw" competitions with live ammunition. I can see it now, "Well, we try to only shoot each other in non vital areas but once and a while we're to good and someone dies"!

The guy putting this crap on stated that injury is common!!!! Here's the link for those who are interested.

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2005/07/09/sports/sports01.txt

[Grizo406]

Settle your old ass down, Victor...don't make me come up there and do it for you. :p

I just returned from said event, and it was a lot tamer than I thought it would be.

It was a very slow start with the first match being a submission match only, meaning no punches...YAWN.

After that, the fights seemed to turn into a lot of ground and pound with no one really getting hurt. It was promoted like UFC, but these guys are just getting started in the sport, and that's just what the audience got...plenty of armatures trying to make a statement. First time it's ever happened in Montana, and with the crowd that was in attendence...they seem to want more. With the climbing popularity of this sport, I'm sure we'll get it.

All things considered, it was a fun evening. There was "eye candy" all over the place, and they were all over the Grizo like white on rice...as usual.

I even spent a little time, and talked with Chris Leban...the red headed guy on Spike TV's "Ultimate Fighter". Super nice kid that has his head on a lot straighter that the show portrayed. He told me that Chuck Liddell was a good friend, and one of the nicest guys you'd every want to meet.

[VictorG]

Settle your old ass down, Victor...don't make me come up there and do it for you. :p

I just returned from said event, and it was a lot tamer than I thought it would be.

It was a very slow start with the first match being a submission match only, meaning no punches...YAWN.

After that, the fights seemed to turn into a lot of ground and pound with no one really getting hurt.

So I guess it really was just "foreplay"! ;)