I guess he has never heard of boxing?

Dana should send this dude some hookers. They worked for Spitzer.
Also, I read on another blog that even though MMA is now sanctioned in North Carolina, the mayor and city council of Concord, NC has banned MMA. Here are the links to the story:

http://mma4real.net/2009/01/13/concord-north-carolina-bans-mma/

http://www2.mooresvilletribune.com/content/2009/jan/09/concord-bans-extreme-fighting/c_2/#comments

Bob Reily is a Feeagg….He should Man up and attack the financial district, Thats where all the Hate and Greed is created. The atheletes choose to do this, They are not slaves forced to fight for the rich mans pleasure.

Football…. Rugby?

this is dumb dumb dumb.

boxing is legal in NY
kickboxing is legal in NY
wrestling is legal in NY
Judo is legal in NY
Jiu-Jitsu is legal in NY

This is ridiculous.

people are scared of reality.
 I’m sorry but I’d rather see Kobe Bryant and Lebrone James fight then have a lay-up contest.

My father-in-law is a state senator and a conservative person at that – and let me tell you he loves MMA, comes to all my jiu-jitsu competitions, sometimes even comes to classes i teach and most importnantly supports my 7 year-old son, his grandson, with his junior JJ classes – he LOVES coming to watch him…..this guy is a typical “i have nothing better to do then make a stink about something” politiician…..its a shame because he gives alot of politiicians a bad name and its not true.

No need for your balls in this state… Cant believe they allow the garbage they have on TV with guns and life altering violence and they have a problem with sanctioned MMA.

There are definitely more deaths and serious injuries in other sports, but I guess people like this care about the intentions more than actual results. “The intention is to harm another human being” argument is one I’ve heard a million times now. They say it promotes violence. I say that, even if that’s true, it’s better to have kids fighting than shooting one another. I can’t honestly say that MMA doesn’t encourage young or stupid influential people to fight. This is why I dislike the dishonarable behavior of fighters like Rashad. If you’r the one trying to argue with someone like this, it would help to sell the sport as one of discipline, honor, and respect. I guess some statistics would be in order to hopefully shut down the idea that it encourages violence. Just shouting our opinion back isn’t going to cut it.

He has definitely never heard of boxing. As well 2 people have died playing hockey in the last week alone. Maybe the goal of hockey isn’t to hurt the opposing player or team but none the less people are still dying. 1 person has died in a sanctioned MMA bout in North America. How many people have died playing other sports or have been seriously injured? Far more than in MMA.

If you live in New York, now is absolutely the time to be writing letters to elected officials.

It’s stupid MMA is one of the most sanctioned and cautious sports out there. If the ref feels a fighters done he can stop it whenever he wants to. These guys chose a lifestyle of combining martial arts, and all there hours in the gym should be allowed to be on display for bigger audiences. FUCK WHO IS EVER HOLDING MMA BACK FROM NEY YORK and WAR MMA

Idiocy at it’s finest!

This is crap mma i just a sport they have so many rules so people wont be seriously hurt, but his ok with boxing were people just stand in front of each other and punch each other at least in mma there is grappling. I also have never heard of anyone ending up messed up at the end of there carrer like ali did.

i wish everyone would get past this sanctioning crap already. “bob” is getting publicity out of this, plain and simple. unfortunately promoters, fighters, and fans are all going to have to deal with the fact that this is a sport in its infancy and growing pains are a part of evolving . im not saying i agree with bob, however, hes an idiot. but this is only one of the many issues that will continue to plague mma until it becomes to big and too mainstream for politicians and other critics to even try and halt its growth. fortunately, in this case mma will obviously win this battle sooner rather than later. even though alot of politicians may agree with bob, there are many more that being crooked politicians they are simply thinking of the revenue it will generate, especially somewhere like new york. its a winn win for the ufc and ny. after ny theyd better start working on ontario, believe me, canadians love mma, if serra gsp 2 is not enough of an example wait til u see a sold out show in TO.

accually could you elaborate?

More people are killed in SOCCER than any other sport in the world. These people need to be educated about the discipline that MMA brings to individuals.

soccer your kidding right?

When will these dinosaurs realize that MMA is here to stay? I guess we will just have to wait for these close minded old farts to die off before the best sport on the planet finally becomes part of the mainstream. Pretty ridiculous that they still dont even report on MMA in the newspapers or network tv sports shows.

i live 10 min. from mr reilly’s district territory and in early 2007 i met him personally. a group of us from an old high school class went to the state capitol to discuss the unrelated topic of stem cell research with him. despite the fact that he ultimately held a differing view on the matter than us, he also showed himself to be an extremely wishy-washy politician who talked his way out of tough questions.

throughout our conversation he proved to hold stances and ideologies on subjects that were obviously wrong – and his lack of research and reasoning was obvious. it seemed his smooth talking and likable demeanor was what solely had got him to this point. it does not surprise me at all that he would take yet another uneducated stance.

FYI……what MCCAIN was doing back in the early days was right..the sport was dangerous,and all he wanted to do was get it sanctioned..JUST LIKE DANA DID….Even Dana said MCCAIN was 100% correct… Liberals fuck up everything….

You can send a man to Congress but you can’t make him think. Arguing with a guy like Bob Reily, who has closed his mind to MMA, is like administering medicine to the dead.

what a dick!!

Ice Hockey- can fight on the ice, yet its not actually a part of the sport “ice hockey”!!

Nascar/formula 1- Can drive in excess of 200mph, cars blow up and drivers die horrific deaths….no problem there!

soccer/rugby/american football…loads of career ending injuries on a weekly basis, yet once again its not seen as a part of the sport, just accidental injury?? right ok like they guys arent trying to hurt each other??!!!!!

Every other combat sport… Loads of injuries that are very similiar in mma, yet hey are governed???

Free style rock climbing- Where you can basically climg as high as you want with no harness, guess what…if you fall your fucking dead!! Thats ok though!

Need i go on, its a very petty argument i’m forming but its the theseuerstand our sport!! Its NY’s loss, thats about the only outcome I have, and its because there is no credable acknowledgement of the sport of what is known today as mma, and the changes made since the infamous “cock fighting” days.

sorry for the end, bloody keyboard went funny and wouldnt type correctly!!

New York needs to ban all movie theaters as well as all major news networks if that’s really how they feel. How dare these few people inflict their uneducated opinion on an entire state!

Most deaths happen in fishing
Manswers

Let them try and take mma away
Good luck

The military glorifies brutality and promotes violence too but I’m sure this senator is not passing legislation to ban people from joining that.

I GUESS THIS GUY NEVER HEARD OF HOCKEY!!! OR BOXING!!! OR FREAKING THE CONCUSSION PRONE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE!!!

I NEED 2 FIND THIS GUY!!

THEY TAKE TIME OUT TO FIGHT IN HOCKEY!!! WTF?!?

Hogwash. This is an insult to anybody with a brain. There are plenty of combat sports out there.

wow…the people who voted this guy into office should feel really secure about their decision. In his hatred towards mma he completely ignores other sports of violence that are sanctioned in his state. What is he gonna say next…yeah, I uh say the world is flat, because I uh can’t see any curve in it….uhhhhhh duhhhhhhhh. What ya wanna bet he gets violently nasty with a hooker several times a week.

Fuck these corporate bitches…i hate them all…

has he ever heard an interview after a boxing match. And mma is violent?? Randy Couture speaks perfect english. Cant say the same for Holyfield. mma is rough but not deadly. Boxers punch eachother in the head for 12 rounds. Sure the UFC was rough in the early days but now they wear gloves and go only 5 rounds tops at 5 mins a round.

He makes some good points. Hard to argue with his logic.

MMA is a “glorification of brutality and violence.”

That’s why it’s popular with most viewers.

We, as the “hardcore” fans, don’t look at it that way…but, next time there is a fight on television and you are at the watercooler at work the next day…listen to the majority of what people are discussing…they aren’t talking about how good Machida’s sprawl is, or how well BJ transitioned from triangle to armbar…their talking about how Stevenson painted the canvass with his own blood.

It is “glorification of brutality and violence.” There is nothing wrong with that statement.

Hey people…have any of you considered that there are more injuries and deaths in other sports than MMA, because there are 1,000,000 more people playing those other sports?

Just a guess, but I’d say if there were as many MMA fighters as hockey players, or football players…there’d be way more injuries and deaths in MMA than those sports.

F#ck, there’s 1696 players in the NFL alone.

College, CFL, High School, Arena, etc….

And that’s just N. America.

Not even close.

“It really is a glorification of brutality and violence.”

Gee, many people felt the same way about “The Passion of The Christ” movie.

I don’t understand why the UFC thinks it needs to be in NY! And I say to you Mr. Democratic Assemblyman Bob Reilly,…………. COME OUT OF THE CLOSET ALREADY!!!

Look, we are all fans of the sport. But to pretend it doesn’t glamourize violence is just a fan looking through rose coloured glasses.

All I’m saying is that he is correct in his statement. Are there worse things in the world than watching an MMA fight?….hell ya. But, you can’t stop every influential teenage, ganngster wannabe, kid from viewing impressionable television or listening to impressionable music, because music and television have been around forever…but, you can limit whatever “new” impressionable forms of entertainment that are trying to become mainstream. That’s obviously what they are doing in NY.

When is the last time some teenage kids with baggy pants hanging down to their knees, hats on sideways, wearing a Tapout shirts, watched an MMA event (either live or at home) then went out and helped an old lady cross the street? Do you think the combination of an inpressionable punk kid, and Kongo beating some guys face in, is more likely to aide that kid in becoming a saint…or a sinner?

http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=7955&zoneid=2

Most of this interview has to do with money, and the impression on an already violent society anyway. Not so much physical harm or injuries on fighters. But, in typical Mania fashion, they only posted the most contraversial statement…that would get our dander up.

1.Napolean Mccallum – McCallum dislocated his knee, tearing three ligaments, ripping his calf and hamstring muscles from the bone, and incurring nerve and artery damage.In surgery, doctors were concerned that if the operation did not go well, his leg could have to be amputated. In the end, McCallum endured six surgeries, including two knee reconstructions.
2.Mike Utley – An injury to his sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae occurred in a game against the LA Rams on November 17, 1991. He would later learn he was largely paralyzed from the chest down.
3.Tim Krumrie – Krumrie may perhaps be best known for suffering one of the most dramatic football injuries ever televised, a shattered leg during Super Bowl Super Bowl XXIII against the San Francisco 49ers. The breaks to Krumrie’s leg occurred when Roger Craig’s knee smashed through both lower leg bones. Krumrie suffered two breaks in his tibia and another in his fibula. A 15-inch steel rod was surgically implanted to stabilize the leg.
4.Joe Theismann – Theismann’s career ended on November 18, 1985 when he suffered a gruesome comminuted compound fracture of his leg while being sacked by New York Giants linebackers Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson.
5.Kevin Everett – Everett’s injury was a fracture and dislocation of the cervical spine, resulting in injury to the spinal cord.Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Andrew Cappuccino described the injury to Everett’s spinal cord as a “scissoring” or “pinching” injury, caused by dislocation of the third and fourth cervical vertebra.
6.Darryl Stingley- Suffered a hit that compressed Stingley’s spinal cord, breaking his fourth and fifth vertebrae. He eventually regained limited movement in his right arm, but spent the rest of his life as a quadriplegic. The injury came just after Stingley had finished negotiating a contract extension that would have made him one of the highest paid receivers in the NFL. The new contract was to be announced when the Patriots returned from the West Coast. Instead, it was never signed.

This is just a small list of the violent injuries suffered playing football. Maybe they should get rid football because it seems to be a pretty violent sport.

I just i want to know if you’ll allow your kids to practice martial arts and compete?

You probably wouldn’t since you agree with OLD Bob here that mma promotes violence. Well what happens violence finds you.

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You have to remember that the main goal in football is to score touchdowns…the main goal in hockey is to score a goal…the main goal in MMA is to render your opponent defenseless and either knock him out or tap him out…big difference.

Well your only half right on that because your just looking at it from and offensive POV, as a defender your job is to stop them from scoring. You can’t tell LB and DB aren’t trying to hurt QB, RB, or WR when them coming running at them full speed and try making a highlight type hit. Also you can score more points in a MMA fight and win.