Tag: Spectacle

UFC: Why the Company Is More Spectacle Than Sport

No one who knows MMA will ever mistake it for professional wrestling. However the “sport” of MMA has become somewhat of a spectacle rather than a sport. But is that such a bad thing? If the UFC were to go the route of truly being a sport, it would give credence to the fighters that play it safe. The […]

No one who knows MMA will ever mistake it for professional wrestling. However the “sport” of MMA has become somewhat of a spectacle rather than a sport. But is that such a bad thing? If the UFC were to go the route of truly being a sport, it would give credence to the fighters that play it safe. The […]

UFC Champ Jon Jones, Dana White and MMA’s Eternal Question: Sport or Spectacle?

Now that UFC 151 is dead—more importantly, now that we’ve had the appropriate amount of time to grieve—it’s our duty to look back with an unflinching eye at the decision that led to the UFC canceling the first event in the promo…

Now that UFC 151 is dead—more importantly, now that we’ve had the appropriate amount of time to grieve—it’s our duty to look back with an unflinching eye at the decision that led to the UFC canceling the first event in the promotion’s 18-year history: light heavyweight champion Jon Jones’s refusal to fight Chael Sonnen after […]