The UFC and Their Fighters....Part II

The show is just filled with jackasses and idiots who have the most sophomoric and barbaric sense of how to conduct oneself around other human beings...even if they're martial arts fighters. And here's the thing, I can see if you were going for funny and the joke just kinda fell flat. But it's not even slighty humorous, it's just amazingly stupid all over the place. It's gone waaaaaay past some kind of blue collar mentality; we're talking about 12-14 dudes that literally can't do long division!

And here's the thing....even if I'm wrong, and I'm not....but even if I am and these guys are upstanding citizens, then all one needs do is turn the blame to the producers of this show who are clearly making them pull these shenanigans. Here I will come to the fighters' defense. You'd have to be just as big of an idiot as these fighters to not see that much of the show content is staged and partially scripted by TV producers that are trying to get ratings. I guarantee you the producers are encouraging a character like Junie Browning to act up and make it "interesting". What would really be interesting is if someone hog-tied that idiot, dragged him to his knees, put a shot gun in his mouth and blew the back of his head out. I guess the real question is, would he notice?

But I digress. Dana White is the president of the UFC and the executive producer of The Ultimate Fighter. No doubt a shrewd and tough business man, but this man is also an incredible tool at the end of the day. He knows how to run his organization, but I think the overall mentality we see in the UFC is merely a reflection of Mr. White setting the bar fairly low himself. The man can't answer a question or do a 30 second interview with dropping f-bombs all over the place. I myself don't have the most flowery language on a daily basis, but I know when to clean it up and I would think an accomplished tycoon like Dana White would know this as well. Apparently not. It's no wonder the meat-head toolbox mentality runs rampant amongst the athletes...their president is one of them.

The sad irony here is that Mr. White is constantly finding himself in defense of the sport and its participants and for good reason--the people involved are not people you want to hang out with. I'm not talking about judging a book by it's cover, I'm talking about people who can't even read the cover! I'm talking about people that can't spell "cover". And my response to Dana White's incessant plea to be taken seriously by mainstream sports culture is simply, "What do you expect when you cultivate a such negative and elementary aura surrounding the sport?

Exactly what kind of reaction do you expect from established journalists, politicians, city officials, and even fans when a guy is allowed to throw an empty pint glass at another man and is rewarded for it by giving him another chance....and another and another? When you show guys urinating on another man's watermelon and then seeing that oblvious man take a huge bite....did you think that kind of garbage is going to capture the respect and legitimacy you're seeking on a national if not worldwide level?"

The UFC is huge already, huge! Many many fans such as myself watch it regularly and even pay to watch it. But this president wants to get even more attention and grow this sport even larger; which is fine. But Mr. White, your talent for doing so is at an absolute end until you shake your gym-rat jock-tool mindset and start thinking about the way you're shaping the culture in your own organization. Male viewers are your target, yes. So I can understand a little shallowness and hijinks from time to time....that's part of entertainment and even I can appreciate some potty humor from time to time (if it's smart). But enjoy your cultural ceiling if that's all you are capable of producing from the majority of your fighters. There will never be a cap on athleticism and the spirit of competition, the UFC has demonstrated this ten-fold. But there is always a cap on tolerance f0r poor character and a "thug-ish", idiotic mentality and, unfortunately, this too has been equally demonstrated. Maybe the UFC should team up with the Hip-Hop industry and they can all go take the SAT together?