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The Super-Elite Is Tightening Its Grip on Combat Sports (jacobin.com)

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Beneath the spectacle of fighters beating each other bloody on the White House South Lawn, fight promoters, tech billionaires, and the Saudi government are working to concentrate wealth and power in fewer, richer hands.

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[–] alexc@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That’s quite the reductive assertion you have there… Why stop with your list? Aren’t all sports fundamentally a preparation for war?

Cage fighting feels different. In all the other sports, yes, violence does occur, but in cage fighting the violence is the product. I am sure it’s only a matter of time before Trump or some other rich fuck sits ringside and at the end of a bout points his thumb downward… The man wants to be Caesar, we get it.

it’s wrong on the WH lawn and it probably should be banned on medical grounds, too.

[–] therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Aren’t all sports fundamentally a preparation for war?

Perhaps they are... I never said that this was necessarily a bad thing. After all... peace does not work on fascists nor their liberal handlers.

and it probably should be banned on medical grounds, too.

If we're going to do that boxing, rugby and american football should be up for the chop, too - even professional wrestling. You do understand what the term "punch drunk" means, right?