cage fighting seems unduly violent and unrestrained, unlike boxing. Surely a shocking example to children yet adults seem to love it. Why?

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• We`re talking cage fighting here and the effect it has on growing minds. I have been informed rightly or wrongly that boxing is more dangerous than MMA or cagefighting. Find it difficult to believe in view of the safeguards. They wear proper gloves at least and the referees restrain any untoward behaviour, not encourage it. . . .should be taught in schools

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  by myopiaplus on August 31st, 2010

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• Wouldn`t have thought this is the way to teach `em self defence. They`d go too far, like we see now.
  
  Years ago, you had a playground fight. You knocked the lad to the ground. The fight was over, blood may have been evident. You then helped him up . . .Am I being bloody naive or what?

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  by myopiaplus on August 30th, 2010

• Times have changed and not entirely for the better. I grew up being taught the old-school ways, but the new school is quite a different story.

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  by gone-a-fishing on August 30th, 2010

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• Interesting what you say. I don`t like the (hyped) aggression on a lot of stuff . . .my son and his lady both love this. Yet they`re not aggressive in the slightest. I see ladies are getting in on this!!. . .SOOO shy, they won`t take their tops off ha ha

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  by myopiaplus on August 30th, 2010

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• We used to have boxing as a basis for males fighting. It was the same for school fights as for other types of "difference of opinion" settlements. Women never obeyed these rules of course. They were exempt and unrestrained.
  
  Seems like that applies to everybody now.

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  by myopiaplus on September 1st, 2010

• I don't know where you grew up, but I grew up before MMA was even thought of, and we didn't observe Marquis of Queensburry rules. In high school I saw a guy have his head shoved into a locker and the dorr pressed shut until he passed out. I've also seen a lunch table overturned and the guy underneath kicked repeatedly in the face. This theory that this is anything new is ridiculous. The only thing that's changed is that now we televise it.

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  by ConservativelyLiberal on September 1st, 2010

• Guess I`ve led a sheltered life . . . .NOTHING like that ever happened at any school I went to.

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  by myopiaplus on September 1st, 2010