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Grand Rapids Press reporter Brian Vanochten in Michican writes the following article about the UFC and its fans. Please read the article. Get piss off and email this donkey at bvanochten@grpress.com please thank you.
The Grand Rapids Press Reports. "UFC is a real low point in TV". Is UFC a sport or not a sport?
The so-called sport of ultimate fighting, which is little more than glorified street fighting, has become America’s fastest-growing and most controversial form of televised entertainment. And the most repulsive form of television programming.
Here’s what UFC fans have in common:
A. They’re mostly Neanderthal males hiding in caves.
B. They’re not nearly sophisticated enough to appreciate the sweet science of boxing, nor the infield fly rule, the pick-and-roll, the left-wing lock, the bump draft or the pulling right guard.
C. They still think the "Flintstones" is a documentary.
The macho world of mixed martial arts is a disturbing trend in sports programming, which, unfortunately, might get much worse before it gets better. It often attracts higher ratings than both NBA and Major League Baseball postseason games among the coveted 18-to-34 male demographic.
The pay-per-view numbers are staggering: Ultimate Fighting Championship’s pay-per-view revenues were almost $223 million in 2006, compared with $177 million for boxing on HBO and $200 million for WWE pro wrestling, according to figures in a recent issue of Sports Illustrated.
UFC and similar events can be found on the Spike cable network, on WXSP, which has turned to this garbage since losing Big Ten football and men’s basketball and Detroit Tigers telecasts, and even on ESPN2 for a live weigh-in.
Shame on them.
The once-legitimate sport of boxing has become irrelevant, with its alphabet soup of sanctioning bodies and a heavyweight division that’s not the same since Mike Tyson took a bite out of Evander Holyfield’s earlobe.
That’s not a high point.
It started the downward spiral for a declining sport that no longer appeals to young males, who’d rather spend $54.95 on a violent video game than a pay-per-view matchup.
Mixed martial arts isn’t a sport. Judo is a sport. Karate is a sport. Those disciplines are showcased once every four years on a legitimate stage in the Olympics.
Mixed martial arts is a cultural plague.
I promise this is the last time I’ll ever write about UFC or the knuckleheads that participate in this savage bloodlust for the purpose of TV ratings.
I’ve made a list of so-called sports cluttering the cable TV landscape that I’d much rather watch than sit through UFC’s skull-bashing sessions.
Darts.
Spelling bees.
Figure skating exhibitions.
Billiards.
Cheerleading.
Eating contests.
Strongest man competitions.
Any talk show featuring Skip Bayless or Woody Paige.
No, I don’t watch those ridiculous events, either.
I’d still like to think that traditional sports such as baseball, football, basketball, hockey and auto racing are the common threads that run through our culture.
Or boxing, for that matter.
Instead, it seems the next generation is preoccupied with the warped sensation of seeing the cult film "Fight Club" come to life in the form of combatants punching, kicking and mauling each other in a cage that’s called the Octagon.
Shame, shame, shame.
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What’s worse…the UFC, or your hair??
Seriously…I can’t decide…
This artical reeks of a badly informed hack.MMA is the most complete combat sport out there.
wow. the only thing you educated any readers on is how ignorant you truly are. now that is shame, shame, shame….
Looking at your photo you seem to be that sad sod who participates at Eating contests, only sport fit enough for darts, watches strongmen competitions wishes he was one of them and jacks of at cheerleaders.
I was raised on Boxing, I love Boxing. However, I am a true fan of MMA and I totally disagree with your article. I understand why you may feel the way you do about the sport, a lot of mis-educated or un-educated people do. I’ve been following the sport since it began in 1993 and let me tell you, it’s come a long way.
It may look like a glorified street fight, but it is far from it. The reason it looks that way it because it is a true fight, a fight of Pankration, or “All Powers”. There are still a lot of thuggish idiots in the sport, as there is in all sports including football, basketball, and boxing!
Let’s talk about it, what was Mike Tyson when he got in to Boxing? He was a street fighter, a street thug that needed to be turned around. And he was successfully turned around and led in the right direction for some time, and during that time he was a STAR. He was an idol to many, including myself.
Yes, Boxing is a beautiful science, without a doubt, but so is Wrestling, so is Judo, so is Muay Thai, and so is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. You have to try them all to respect them. And when you call a boxer a “fighter” you are wrong. A Boxer is a Boxer, period!
A true fight should include whatever works, with the exception of brutality such as biting, eye gouging, groin shots, hair pulling, etc. The UFC has rules against all of that.
One thing you will notice in the UFC that you won’t see in Boxing is the level of respect that the fighters have for one another. You will also see more than two ways to win a fight. There are thousands of ways to win in a MMA contest.
Nobody has been killed in the sport either. If you want to understand MMA for what it REALLY and TRULY is, talk to Randy Couture. He is one of the classiest, most intelligent, more respectable guys in the sport, talk to him!
Nevermind, I thought I was sending that to the man who actually wrote it. Damnit!
I don’t think you honestly have any idea what you are talking about with UFC. What makes ufc less of a sport. These guys are well trained athletes who have trained in Judo, bjj, wrestling, kick boxing, sombo, and other areas of martial arts. I don’t understand how you can discount these martial arts and when you say the we as mma fans don’t understand the sweet science of boxing you make yourself look bad, cause I have watched boxing for years but you don’t understand the science of mma and are just bashing something new cause you can’t understand it.
Yes some of the fans are bad and give it a bad name but to bash the entire sport is really a disgrace to you. Before you write another article bashing a legit sport do some research on these martial arts that in some cases pre-date boxing.
They actually pay you to write these uneducated, opinionated articles. Have you ever watched a UFC event or seen some of the athletes or ,”glorified street brawlers” as you call them? These athletes are consumate professionals who train up to 8 hours a day and have backgrounds that range from college and olympic wrestling, judo, brazilian jiu jitsu, muay thai and K-1 kickboxing. Fighters such as randy couture (U.S olympic alternate, greco roman wrestling, national team), Matt Lindland (Silver medalist 2000 olympic games in Sydney, Australia), or Matt Serra (world champion brazilian jiu jitsu blackbelt) are as far as you can get from neanderthals where most of these competitors hold bachelors degrees and some even hold doctorates. The point Mr. Vanochten is that you should educate yourself on a subject before you publish your opinions on them, unless of course you want to look like a bloated idiot with a 2nd string comb over, oops too late. Well maybe you will learn and find some rogaine. Good day sir.
I am a 32 year old male, and in my opinion, your opinions are completely uneducated. After watching MMA (not ultimate fighting) which stands for mixed martial arts for 7 years now, I have learned a lot of the technical aspects of the game, and when I watch it on TV, I see a real technical interaction that takes years to learn. I really don’t care what the haters think about the sport, and believe me it’s a sport, the sport of fighting. Boxing is 1 element of fighting, and we all know boxers don’t stand a chance in MMA when they can only box. When you box you need a certain distance between you and your opponent, in MMA that is not possible unless your opononent also wants to only strike, but what will happen most likely is that you will get taken down and choked out, your arm broken, or get knocked out cold while lying on your back. Now how can boxing be superior when 100 times out of 100 a boxer would lose to an MMA fighter in an MMA event. If the event was only boxing with boxing rules, the MMA guy would probably lose but that would be a boring fight that I would never watch. Basically, I will keep watching MMA, wether it’s ultimate fighting, bodog fight. pride fighting, strikeforce, I know any fighter in any of these leagues would very easily beat a pure boxer in a MMA fight.
What bothers me is how much you bash the fans and the MMA fighters themselves. How many times have you heard a boxer say that he would be in prison if it wasn’t for boxing. Sounds to me like boxing is full of thugs, a lot more than MMA fighters. Also sounds like you are taking this whole thing personal when I really don’t care, I never had anything bad to say about boxing until this whole MMA vs boxing started recently, and I am just defending the SPORT I love. It is just your OPINION that MMA isn’t a sport. I bet you are a skier too, and that back in the early 1990’s you were bashing the snowboarders too, talking trash about them, saying that skiing will always be superior to snowboarding. Now look at the 2 sports. I would say snowboarding has passed skiing, and it is in the olympics now. I also predict that MMA will be in the olympics within 15 years.
have a great day
About the only thing in this article worth reading was the promise you made never to write about MMA again.
On behalf of fans and athletes everywhere, let me say “Thanks”
PS - nice combover, fatboy.
The guy has an OC (out of conrol) combover! Jesus!
Hi Brian,
I read your ignorant article…..but actually your stupidity didn’t even offend me.
Shall I tell you why.
I though to myself “How can you take somebody serious with such a comb-over hairstyle.” Let’s face it you’re in denial. And if that wasn’t distressing enough, you also look like the guy at school who always forgot his sports kit and had to sit the lessons out. I think exercise is a stranger in your world???
Oh by the way….I participate in Mixed Martial arts…I train regularly and I enjoy watching fights on the TV. I enjoy the chess like battles bewteen fighters who embrace different styles of fighting. Most of your sweet science boxers would get dismantled as soon as they had to put up with take downs or low kicks. I love this element of ever changing uncertainty.
And you…your simply igonrant. I think there is nothing worse than lazy slovenly journalism. But I suppose lazy and slovenly are words which hang like a millstone around your neck my friend…..
Will
man you know what, people like you are just jealous b/c you know that your fucking sport of boxing is getting swallowed by mma, man i got that lame ass pay-per-view of de la hoya vs. mayweather what a stupid, boring ass fight that was, is that the big science that you see in boxing what a retard
Okay, clearly this man is completely uneducated as to the sport of MMA. However, I will make 1 point.
This man admits that judo, boxing and karate are sports. Although karate is obviously not the most effective striking art, one would have to admit that muay thai (a more effective striking art) is also a sport. One would probably say that amateur wrestling is a sport (it’s in the Olympics). Jiu jitsu is also clearly a sport if wrestling is a sport. So, if you put all those diciplines together, that’s MMA. But MMA’s not a sport? Sir, please explain…
Here’s my e-mail to him:
Saw your article and well, you couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve been a boxing fan since I was a little tyke, watching the Friday night fights on network TV with my dad. But about 3 years ago I slowly migrated to MMA. Boxing is corrupt, boring and as you pointed out, slowly going the way of the buffalo. I got awful tired of watching John Ruiz throw a sloppy jab and hold for 10 seconds. The ’sweet science’ was reduced to garbage.
For the record, I have a college degree, live in a ranch-style house (not a cave) and could explain all of those sports concepts you mentioned. I do not think the Flintstones was a documentary, but I’m fairly certain that a thesis could be prepared on how their show is microcosm of our American lives.
Your argument is flawed and also quite ironic. You use terms like “savage bloodlust” & “skull-bashing sessions”. It’s ironic in that you are the one that does not understand all of the disciplines, strategies and complexities of the sport. Your article makes you seem ignorant, as if you just saw your first MMA fight a week ago. Add that to your Ad Hominems and hasty generalizations and it’s clear you have no scholarship in MMA whatsoever. By the way, Karate is not an Olympic sport. Tae Kwon Do is.
Here’s hoping you stick to your promise and never write about MMA again.
Respectfully,
Matthew M. Lo Cascio
Funny how many people think this is the guys website lol! Lets send these comment to his email:
bvanochten@grpress.com
Or give him a ring:
(734) 997-7090
Brian Van Ochten is a fraud. He wrote an article in January lamenting the death of his 18 year old “nephew”-Patrick Daneluk, in an automobile accident. Patrick Daneluk was not even related to him. In fact, Patrick Daneluk was the son of another family completely. He fabricated the entire story and claimed that Patrick Daneluk was his brother’s son. I knew Patrick Daneluk, and Brian Van Ochten is a lying scumbag and should be fired, not only for his idiotic UFC article, but for his involvement in the virtual coverup and fiction of his story.
Fabricating Stories: Brian Van Ochten. I can validate Dan Springette’s commentary. Brian Van Ochten wrote a bogus story about the “death of his brothers son” in an article about NASCAR I think in January. That boy’s name was Patrick Daneluk, and I am married to his mother, Sara Bryant. Patrick Daneluk wasn’t Van Ochten’s nephew, and certainly wasn’t his brother’s son. Patrick was killed in an automobile accident on the 15th Of December in Commerce Township. Van Ochten’s family placed a “bogus” obituary in the local newspapers, claiming the boy was his nephew, when in fact, he was not. Further, Van Ochten exploited the boy’s death in a the fictionalized “human interest story” about Patrick’s death. Additionally, the family deliberately mislead the courts of the state of michigan regarding the boy’s status for nearly 12 years. A lawsuit is pending.
I just can’t beleive your comments. I mean you have to get your facts straight. This sport is dominating the world and you are just just kidding yourself if you think it’s a trend. Look at the pay per view numbers. This isn’t just the U.S., this is the whole damn world man. I mean crap, this is the real deal. You might have just ruined your carrier with these comments. My god.
I heard once that “you’ve done nothing when you,ve bested a fool”, give the guy a break. It”s kinda like picking on a retard. The american public is smart enough to disreguard his ignorant statements.
I bet this guy feels stupid when you see the UFC selling 800,000-1,000,000 ppvs on numerous events last year. This article breaks it down into real money and proves this guy is a tard.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1546791/despite_a_struggling_economy_the_ufc.html?cat=3