The Ultimate Fighting Championship
Topic: UFC: 111
Summary:
The Ultimate Fighting Championship, more commonly known to the public as the UFC, just aired its 111th mixed martial arts event on March 26th.
Significance:
I personally am a die hard fan of the UFC. Mainly one of the fighters, Georges "Rush" St. Pierre.
Georges is one of my favorite fights for a few reasons. First, is because he is not just a savage beast that flings his fists around in order to defeat his opponent, he himself states that, "I see every fight as a math problem, solving it is like finding my opponents weakness". Georges is also a proud French-Canadian fighter that was given the Rogers 2010 Athlete of the Year award.
The significance of this article was to prove a few facts. One, that MMA (mixed martial arts) is not a stupid past-time, but a serious sport that many compete in. Also, it deals with the recognition of Canadian athletes.
Speaking of combat sports, I believe that ever since the dawn of time, man have been drawn to other men destroying each other as a form of entertainment. Why is that? Do men feel stronger watching other men fight? Is it a question of power, because if that was the case why don't more men fight rather then watch. The romans built a Colosseum to pair gladiators against each other in 1st century AD. Now in 21st century America hundreds of stadiums have been built in order to house UFC matches.
This shows that as much as we try to hide and show that we are not barbarians but sophisticated modernized people, put two people in a cage and let them fight to the death and millions of the "sophisticated modernized people" will pay hundreds for front row seats to see the match. Even in the middle of the street, if a fight happens people will pull over to see the men fight, rarely will anyone step in.
I also wanted to address the fact that Canadian Athletes are very neglected. Why is GSP, one of the best fighters in the MMA known over Alexandre Bilodeau, the first Canadian to win Gold at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics? I believe that the media is to blame. I am not saying that GSP does not deserve to be known, he is one of the best athletes in the world, but because he is known as some one who can "kick your ass" hes known over some of the fastest most talented Canadians, participating in Canadian sports like Steve Nash-Basketball player or Sidney Crosby-Scored the winning goal in the Canada vs USA Hockey Game.
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