I hesitated to post this since it is so idiotic and nothing that hasn't been written 100 times before, but I am disappointed that CBS would publish such a scummy, one-sided rant without having someone among their staff with integrity, like Sam Caplan, prepare a response.
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Originally Posted by MIKE FREEMAN
Ultimate fighting will never be as good as boxing on its worst day. Many of the ultimates are nothing but thugs and ruffians. All that league has done is take a few former nightclub bouncers, knuckle crackers and parolees, put on some fancy TV graphics and told them, "Kick the other guy in the nuts."
No skill is required to knee someone in the groin (and it happens despite rules stating it is illegal). I'm kneeing Doyel in the groin now. See, was that difficult?
Next on Spike TV: Man eats another man's face. Then some dork will call it a sport.
The UFC has no credibility. UFC equals the Ultimate Farcical Clown league.
And please do not wax poetic about the UFC's popularity. Of course people watch the UFC. It's human cockfighting. It appeals to the lowest common denominator of human existence.
The message boards and my e-mail will be irradiated with balderdash about how the mainstream media is simply a bunch of snobs and we don't "get" the Ultimate Farcical Clown league. I love the NFL. Only Roman gladiators had a more dangerous sporting profession. The NFL is more violent than the UFC, but football at least possesses a veneer of being civilized.
Boxing is almost comically imperfect. It is full of crooks, con artists and ear biters (and that's just a weekend in Atlantic City with Mike Tyson). Despite its faults and notwithstanding the massive greed that has caused boxing to collapse on itself like a dying sun, boxing has more charm in its broken pinky than the Ultimate Farcical Clown league does in its entire crappy organization.
No UFC goon has or ever will possess the grace and natural showmanship of De La Hoya or the true fearsome fighting skills of Mayweather.
Notice the word: skills. This match will not resemble a bar-room brawl but meticulous, highly practiced, man-to-man warfare between two skilled, all-time athletes.
It is only a matter of time before the UFC suckers, er, fans realize they have been fooled by a Jedi mind trick.
The UFC should be banned; the De La Hoya-Mayweather bout should be embraced.
The fact a non-heavyweight match is getting so much attention shows that boxing still has appeal (and even I once thought it was dead). The fact boxing has survived despite so many scandals and crooked promoters demonstrate it has resilience.
"This [fight] is important because boxing is at its lowest point and boxing has been at its lowest point for quite a while now," De La Hoya told the New York Post. "Boxing is always taking these low blows left and right from people. This will give it a good shot in the arm."
The fight can do more than that. It can begin a resurgence perhaps not seen before in American sports. If the fight is particularly competitive, casual fans will give boxing another look and the all-important advertisers will again open their wallets instead of turning their backs.
Then maybe we can begin to put the sad joke that is the UFC behind us.
And once again we can get excited about a real sport.
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http://cbs.sportsline.com/columns/story/10162545/1
Some things to note:
-Despite his rant spilling over to a second page, he amazingly fails to make a single reasoned argument. All he did here was repeat McCain-era stereotypes about MMA that are hilariously outdated and narrow-minded.
-Several of his "points" about the UFC are purely fabricated (I don't think eating the other guy's face was ever allowed to be honest!)
-In writing an article about how Boxing is so superior to MMA, he somehow forgot to try and make boxing look good.
-This clown actually has a blog on the Sportsline site, but for some reason put this sophmoric fact-free turd up as a new article in the Boxing and MMA section.
Actually, judging by this guy's feedback description, maybe he just realizes that riling people up with shitty writing is an easier route to success than actually doing research and making intelligent arguments:
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Mike Freeman is not just another pretty face. There is some actual talent there. A little bit of talent. OK, a smidge. OK, a thimbleful.
He always wanted to be two things: A writer and a pilot. He started writing for newspapers in high school and got his pilot's license over 10 years ago. So now he is a writer, pilot and wannabe athlete remembering the days when he could run a 4.5-second 40-yard dash. OK, 4.8 seconds. OK, 7.0 seconds.
Freeman has been a full-time sportswriter for the Dallas Morning News, Boston Globe, Washington Post, New York Times and the Florida Times-Union covering every aspect of the sports world. Freeman is proud to announce that in his last job as a columnist for the Times-Union in Jacksonville, Fla., he twice angered thousands of Gators fans. OK, maybe it was 10,000. OK, maybe several hundred thousand.
He is also the author of two books with a third on the way. If you see any of his works in the $1.29 bin, please buy one. OK, the $1 bin. OK, the 79 cents bin. C'mon, help a brother out.
Freeman currently lives in New Jersey with his wife so please, no jokes about the Garden State. Or he will sick Tony Soprano on you.
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If you want to drop this glorified troll a line and tell him what you thought of his "analysis", go to this page:
http://cbs.sportsline.com/columns/writers/freeman
Bombs away!