Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a full-contact combative sport that uses a variety of fighting skills to take down the opponent. The sport came to the US in 1993 with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It is now recognized by 19 states. The remaining 31 states have left it to the communities to decide if they support it or not. Media coverage has made it more popular and more people are beginning to accept it as a conventional sport. Should Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting) be banned? According to Susan Connors, she believes that “It’s nowhere near as awful as boxing. They’re not just trying to knock each other out but to take each other down as in wrestling...You get to tap out... They tend to call the fights earlier.” On the other hand, Vivienne Nathanson thinks that “Ultimate Fighting can be extremely brutal... It can cause traumatic brain injury, joint injuries and fractures... The days of gladiator fights are over and we should not be looking to resurrect them.” In my opinion, MMA fighting should not be banned.
Canadian doctors are looking to ban full-contact sports for their brutality. The doctors worry about the potential for serious injuries. The more common injuries are broken limbs, lacerations, and brain damage. During an event in Vancouver, a large number of the fighters received emergency care at the local hospital. The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) would also like sports like boxing to be banned as well. They believe that other combative sports, such as hockey and football, are different than MMA because the main goal is not to ultimately knock out your opponent. The main reason that they wish to ban sports like Ultimate Fighting and Boxing is to prevent serious injuries from occurring. This clearly shows tha...
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...Ultimate Fighting is an interesting and entertaining sport that a lot of people enjoy. As I see it, if you have a problem with MMA, you don’t have to watch it. If you learn how to do it the proper way, Ultimate Fighting can be a fun sport to watch, and to partake in. If you do it the correct way, there is less of a risk of serious injury.
MMA fighting should not be banned for the greater good. If Ultimate Fighting is not banned, more people will stay safe, and out of illegal activities. Those who oppose it believe it is too dangerous, and those who support it find it an economical and personal booster. With the already worsening job crisis, getting rid of MMA would result in a large number of lost jobs. After all of the information that I have collected, it would be a very logical decision to keep Mixed Martial Arts, but to maybe change the rules to make it safer.
With that being said, we begin to notice the comparison between both dogfighting and football. This was shown by using a system called “HITS, in which six sensors are placed inside the helmet of every player on the field, measuring the force and location of every blow he receives to the head” (Gladwell 56). The HITS system helped to conclude that practice can be just as dangerous as the games. With this being said, football is an overall reckless style of play that can continually cause brain injury. Not just football but both of these high intensity sports are viewed as damaging to one 's body both physically and mentally. Because of this, if people consider dogfighting to be unjust, illegal, and abusive then they should believe football to have the same damaging effects. Unfortunately, there is such a high demand for football, because of all the money it brings. Because of this, scientist and doctors will ignore the realistic facts and continue to allow people to participate in this
Thesis: Although most hockey athletes believe that by wearing required equipment keeps them safe from injury, however I believe that these regulations should be stricter because of the severity of recent and past injuries.
Injuries are common in most sports that have a contact component attached. Whether it’s at a professional level, or a school level, injuries are always bound to occur in contact sport. This analysis will look into the role headgear could, should and would play, and debates whether it should be made mandatory. Olympic sports such as Ice Hockey, Bicycle Riding and Baseball are just some examples that currently require athletes to wear a form of headgear. However, Australian contact sports such as AFL and Rugby give the option for players to wear headgear for protection. In 2011, 14 year old Ben Robinson was hospitalised after being treated 3 times in a game for head blows in a rugby game . In 1994, professional boxer Bradley Stone died from head injuries whilst boxing against Richie Wenton . Examples like these show the brutality of contact sports. Because of this, my paper will look at the issue of headgear in contact sport and will particularly look at this issue at junior sports level.
...gal, both in society and in sports.”(Monroe100) She argues that the legalization will actually benefit costs and their usage. “Also, making steroids legal would end the law-enforcement costs and efforts associated with steroid use.”(Monroe100) This may seem like the right solution but would it really help? Making it legal would only increase its usage and may encourage more people to abuse them. Those who oppose to this idea believe that it will increase the chances of violence and temper loss. “Do you think that steroids should be legalized? I don’t because you can die from them and you might lose your temper easily and could be dangerous.” This is a reasonable approach. With all the muscle that steroids can produce in the human body, it would be dangerous to have millions of people going around the world beating up each other for any problem that they might have.
I want to discuss how the business of pro wrestling is viewed in today's society, and how wrestling has reached such widespread notoriety. I mean, honestly. Let's face it. The vast majority of the American population looks down upon this form of sports entertainment. As a whole, professional wrestling fans are thought to be toothless, sweaty, smelly rednecks with low IQ's, low morals, violent streaks, and a thirst for blood. Stereotypes of this magnitude are partially to blame for the mainstream media looking at professional wrestling with a condescending eye and, as such, making a mockery of it. Those stereotypes also couldn't be farther from the truth. Wrestling fans are a surprisingly entity of sports entertainment.
The liberty of an individual in sport is the number one value that should be respected to make boxing morally adequate. Autonomy should be respected in sport because ones body should always have freedom from external control and influences. All arguments for paternalism can be explained in a justified way to prove that boxing is unethical and unsafe, but this does not mean that paternalism is the best way to bring about safety in boxing. If boxing were to be banned, violence would become more prevalent outside of sport, and proper boxing technique and skill would slowly disappear. Keeping boxing as a sport will create a safer environment for this type of activity to occur, and also create a fair ground for each sport that involves violence to stay available to athletes. Because boxing does involve violence, this does not imply that it is immoral to participate and that the freedom to participate should be taken away from athletes. Boxing provides a safe environment, a place to create a career, and is an institution for sporting entertainment. By allowing boxing as a sport to continue, this will create a safe and fair atmosphere with the freedom to allow all individuals to participate with proper
Although some people still oppose the fighting style and physicality of MMA, the benefits clearly outweigh the consequences. With strict and organized regulation of MMA events, proper care and insurance risk can be minimized, but it’s necessary to se...
Coakley, J. J., & Donnelly, P. (2007). Violence in Sports . Sports in society: issues & controversies (9th ed., pp. 198-199). Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Whether you are an avid spectator of football, hockey, basketball, or NASCAR, you have witnessed a fair amount of violence. In the 2013-2014 football season, at least five different college football players broke their leg, and hundreds of other players at the high school, college, and even professional level have injured a plethora of other body parts in a variety of methods. Hockey is considered one of the most violent sports in the world—the players have violent tendencies and generally release their anger on their opponents—and, unsurprisingly to its audience, results in many injuries. While basketball is not considered particularly violent, audiences are thrilled when they witness almost any sort of injury. Last year, University of Louisville guard Kevin Ware’s compound fracture broke through his skin, exposing his broken bone to everyone around him. Several people took videos of the incident and less than a year later, the video has nearly tw...
The use of steroids in sports shouldn’t be allowed because it is considered cheating. It shouldn’t be allowed for other reasons too. To start, they are dangerous to who ever uses them.Using steroids is equal to artificially boosting your testosterone levels. This will mess up the natural hormone balance. Men who abuse steroids convert testosterone into estrogen. They can lose muscle tone and develop breast tissue.
How do you market violence? Can the general public be persuaded to look at unarmed combat as a legitimate sport? Through the course of the paper, I will discuss all the aspects of the marketing mix, and how they are utilized by the mixed martial arts promotion The Ultimate Fighting Championship. I will also discuss the effect of their current marketing stratagem, and the impact to their booming business.
I think that steroids should not be legal in professional sports because it can be very dangerous to an athlete’s health; it is un-fair and is dangerous in social aspects as well. These are the reasons why I think steroids should not be allowed in professional sports. In professional sports the game should be played as fair as possible without any cheating or any problems. Steroids are currently illegal in Canada.
In brief, steroids should be legalized in professional sports for they can make the games a more exciting experience for society. Also, if all the athletes took steroids all the players would play equally. Sports fans can see who truly is the best player and their true potential. Under proper doctor supervision, steroids can be injected safely. Steroid doping and other have become the biggest scourge of professional sports leagues, and that’s why it may be time they were made legal. Athletes are never going to stop intaking the drugs and banning the drugs in sports will never be successful. We can all choose whether or not to improve and to be the better person or to stay normal.
As the fighter's face drips with blood, he continues to push forward and engage his opponent. At this point in time, the fighter's body and mind are telling him to give up. Most people give in to this feeling because they do not know what their body can actually do. However, a true athlete knows how to keep on fighting and ignore what his body and mind are ordering. Although there is much bloodshed, mixed martial arts is not a barbaric death match, but a sport because there are many techniques and rules that a fighter must master and follow in order to ensure safety to himself and his opponent.