For this post I was privileged to stumble upon a magnificent article voicing the opinions both against and for mixed martial arts and whether or not it is too violent. Obviously as always, my biased opinion lies in favor of the sport.
To begin, the man named Jasper Hamill talks about the “bad side” of mma. For the first four paragraphs he expresses his person concern while around an event. His downfall seems to be that he only expresses his personal concern for his own safety, and never gives any indication that any other person there has this terror that he experiences. He then goes on to talk about how the fighters “don’t seem like the kind of guys who would get in a street fight” (Hamill). In his whole paragraph he never seems to give a real reason why the sport should be banned or why it should be considered too violent. He merely offers his opinion that it is too rough for him.
Providing the side for a positive look is Stef Lach. He begins his segment by assuring his audience that he does not “have a problem with anyone being opposed to violence” (Lach). He does however have a problem with “the irrational reaction to Mixed Martial Arts by people who have no idea what the sport involves” (Lach). He reminds the audience that Hamill could not even call the sport horrible after he visited the gym and went through a practice session. There is very little convincing to do as Hamill has done most of that for him. He also points out that many people who are supposedly against mma for the violence resort to calling the ground game ”somehow homoerotic” (Lach). This has been something I have experienced as well. When people do not look at what a sport entails they will get the wrong impression about how it was made to be.
