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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
*laugh* Please...
There are very real concerns about sanctioning a blood sport. Boxing was able to do it by implementing rules and regulations designed to insure the relative health of their performers.
Whether you agree with their methods or decisions is another topic, but they represent themselves as professional organization.
UFC and Dana White are trying, but continue to suffer setbacks, and continue to suffer as a result of it.
Personally, I feel the upper tier brands of mixed martial arts are less barbaric than your typical boxing match, but watching an obviously unconscious man get pummeled does nothing to legitimize or professionalize your operation, nor does it give that antiseptic splash that you need to be taken seriously.
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There are very strict rules and regulations designed to insure the relative health of the performers. MMA has evolved a long way from when the only rules were no eye gouging and no biting. All fights are now sanctioned by the proper commission, usually the same local board that sanctions boxing matches.