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More mainstream media malfeasance
By Zach Arnold | March 27, 2006
An article just published on the USA Today web site manages to lump Toughman boxing with MMA.
Toughman, Ultimate Fighting, Kage Kombat and other forms of brawling are full of surprises. But the biggest may be that “extreme fighting,” a sport once on the verge of being banned, is enjoying increasing regulatory approval and drawing big crowds.
There’s the pre-requisite John McCain “human cockfighting” quote about MMA, and the article is sympathetic to participants in Toughman fights.
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I always get weird images of guys in chicken costumes attempting to peck at each other whenever I hear “human cockfighting”. Either that or really bad “jousting” images, ha.
[…] Last week, we linked to an article in USA Today that lumped Toughman boxing with MMA. It hit a real nerve with readers, and I was afraid that the USA Today would snowball into more stupidity. And it has. […]