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By Zach Arnold | November 16, 2006
- Fox Sports: Hughes/GSP UFC 65 – Match of the Year? and more GSP interview quotes with Dave Doyle
- Ivan Trembow: How TNA’s prime time wrestling show will compete with UFC ratings on Spike TV
- UFC HP: Vera on the Verge of a Breakthrough
- Houston Chronicle: Jeff Monson prepared for last shot
- Houston Chronicle: Matt Hughes intends to continue the fight
- Canadian Press (via CBC Sports): Opposites collide in heavyweight title fight at UFC 65 in Sacramento
- Press Release: Tito Ortiz’s “rent my shorts” marketing campaign for his 12/30 fight versus Chuck Liddell
- Hamilton Spectator: Big John McCarthy profile/interview article
- Hamilton Spectator: Fighting into the big time (Jeff Joslin profile article)
- Sioux City Journal: Gering, Nebraska bans MMA
- Pound 4 Pound: HBO continues negotiations with UFC
- NHB News: Choi Hong-Man off, Melvin Manhoef on the 12/2 Tokyo Dome card line-up
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“Gering Police Chief Melvin Griggs said he supported the ban because the ultimate fighters used techniques, such as choke holds, that are dangerous. Choke holds are allowed in martial arts, he said, but they are considered to be a deadly force in law enforcement.
“We are teaching this to young people,” the police chief said.
The fighters, most of whom had little training, were also using arm bars, which are meant to break bones, Griggs said.”
What’s your point officer? Because grappling arts are straight to the point and brutal and not as pretty as what the guys in the TKD school do, it needs to be banned?
OK. Stop high school wrestling then. See where that gets ya.
The techniques used in boxing and football are assault if applied in daily life. The way those Little League coaches are teaching kids to swing a bat could be used during a robbery or god forbid to kill someone. It’s about time we banned baseball. Melvin Griggs is a grade-A ass clown. These are the kind of narrow minded jerks who ban dodgeball.