



How far back would it set us?

VERY FAR. 5 vote(s) 27.8%
Not too far. 6 vote(s) 33.3%
It would be positive! 0 vote(s) 0.0%
I don't know.. 3 vote(s) 16.7%
Other (please specify 1 vote(s) 5.6%
  1. smfowns4 Well-Known Member

    What do you think would be the results if/when a fatality actually occurs during a UFC event?
  2. MMAddict710 Well-Known Member

    I honostly don't think it ever will, but if it did, how far back it would set the sport would depend on the circumstances. If it was from the blatant negligence of UFC officials, then I think it would be pretty bad, but other than that it wouldn't set the sport back too far.
  3. PANICman Member

    To add to MMAddict710's comment, the nature of the death itself would play a part.

    Some guy drops from an aneurysm, heart attack, etc., probably not a lot of uproar.

    Some guy gets his neck snapped during an RNC or spine destroyed from a piledriver, different story.

    How gruesome plays a part...
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  4. 67goat Well-Known Member

    If pro-wrestling can survive a death in the ring, the UFC would survive a death in the ring. A move or two might get banned, but I doubt much else would come of it.
  5. NYR30 Well-Known Member

    I think MMA has so many people sitting and waiting on something exactly like that to happen, that it would probably be a big deal. Some McCain type a$shole would run with it and campaign to have it banned.
  6. VladTepes New Member

    Um, who saw the recent Red Bull-sponsored "highest jump in history" from the edge of space recorded on "live" HD video? There was a 20 second or so time delay in case the guy died a horrific tumbling death...does the general public really believe the UFC doesn't have a similar buffer for their "live" TV events? I bet there's at least a 10-20 second delay IN CASE SOMEONE'S NECK IS SNAPPED but am curious if anyone knows for sure about this.
  7. 67goat Well-Known Member

    Not sure about PPV, but there is always a delay on network broadcasts for fear that a curse word might escape into the wild.
  8. PANICman Member

    Shhh, be very quiet, we're hunting f-uck.
  9. smartigan Well-Known Member

    You can say f--- now without disguising it
  10. smartigan Well-Known Member

    Haha I guess you can't, love is a sh*t cover word for f*ck in fairness
  11. VladTepes New Member

    I was trying to make a speculative point regarding the time delay and would appreciate if the "average illiterate Joe" doesn't piss all over everything like he's marking his proverbial territory on this message board. I for one purchase every single f---ing PPV the UFC puts out, so I hope Dana White or someone tied into the UFC reads this and appreciates what I'm saying because I speak truth -- if someone perished in the UFC on a live broadcast, or if the footage was taken ringside and broadcast via sites like gorehound dot com or liveleak dot com THE RATINGS AND PPV BUYS WOULD f---ing SKYROCKET -- albeit for animalistic primal reasons. A large number of humans male and female hunger for "reality" carnage, and this is only growing more evident in the "Internet Era" as websites like the aforementioned continue to pop up, and actually become somewhat quality. This is in addition to movies put out like "A Serbian Film" and "Martyrs" which portray and kind of glorify human suffering. I suppose those movies have an appeal to only a certain small percentage of people, but the implication of a live death captured into the general public would absolutely explode interest because of the latent desire humans all over the globe have to see such things. If more people knew about movies like the ones I mentioned, they would be consumed...but most people are not smart enough to locate those movies and simply consume what they're fed via Hollywood. From what I've heard and observed from people we as a culture are becoming more "animalistic" and even moving backwards in terms of "moral evolution" -- it's the time for the UFC matchmakers to start mismatching fights little by little, so as to increase the probability that death will occur in the Octogon. Infamy is the shortest road for the UFC to global acceptance and explosive growth, and I'd bet my life $1000 that I am correct if it were possible to validate such a wager. Any intelligent comments welcome (none from PANICman, thank you).
  12. Desalvatore Well-Known Member

    Quite an interesting topic I have thought of many times myself. Hopefully with improved ref stoppages we won't have to see it but in many other cases with fighters dying during a fight it can happen with just one punch. I think if it does happen in the UFC during a televised fight it will effect the sport but mainly the judgement of newer fans and people who don't follow the sport. Hardcore and casual fans already know MMA has risks and only having a few deathes since the start of it all says it's a really low risk level with a decent ref. In some fights I have watched where a person was sent to the hospital and died later or died on the spot it was usually due to taking too much damage.
  13. TheCompany Well-Known Member

    I hope it will never happen. I think we should wory more about punch drunk fighters.
  14. TheCompany Well-Known Member

    Crocop, Wanderlei, Big Nog are legends and i will root for them every time but they should retire, it is better for their health.
  15. mabrown45 Well-Known Member

    It won't set it back at all.
  16. TheVileOne Well-Known Member

    Did it destroy or set back boxing when actual boxing fighters have died in the ring or from injuries related to a boxing match?
  17. Desalvatore Well-Known Member

    I can remember people being shocked when Ray Mancini killed Duk Koo Kim but it didn't kill boxing at all. Boxing slowly went down hill after Tyson, had it's ups and downs after that but really keeps getting worse as time goes on.
  18. Shawnd1901 Well-Known Member

    hobestly depends on how it happens choke help too long or a fighter taking an horrible beating and the ref not stopping it could be bad but i dont think they would be huge set backs for the sport as much as for the fighter and ref
  19. Desalvatore Well-Known Member

    Quite true about the ref and the fighters being most effected by it. In the Mancini/Kim fight I mentioned before, the ref ended up committing suicide feeling so much guilt for letting the fight go on. Even the guys mother committed suicide.
  20. Reckin007 Well-Known Member

    I think it'll bring more publicity but ultimately it won't kill the sport (in fact it might bring in more fans). Freak accidents happen in sports like Clint Malarchuk getting his internal carotid artery cut by a skate during a hockey game. I realize it wasn't a death but it could've been and they wouldn't have told hockey players to play without skates or stop putting the sport on TV.

    How about Dale Earnhardt? Greg Moore? Owen Hart?...I don't think those deaths negatively affected the sport did bring some safety changes though. I could see something similar with MMA depending on what caused the death.

    If this does happen though, I think it'll be something similar to what we've already seen - a condition that the fighter was suffering from prior to the fight itself.

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