Children in MMA! Too funny.

[FergJS]

What's funny is that in the UK judo is the preserve of nice middle-class kids, and watching children's judo you'll see kids being put to the mat much more violently than anything I saw in this match. Strange how when you lose the pyjamas and put a fence around it people are up in arms.

To be fair though, Sky news is a joke over here. There's better coverage of the story here, which clarifies that the kid was crying because he'd never lost before, nothing to do with an injury.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/se...-fight-preston

[Ron Almeida]

liberal media looking for a reason to outlaw something.

stupid people piss me off.

my sons worst injury came from playing basketball.

[Enrique "Kiko"]

liberal media looking for a reason to outlaw something.

stupid people piss me off.

my sons worst injury came from playing basketball.

Why is it the non combat sports that get people the most injured? Take a look at football players injuries. Also tennis elbow is no freaking joke. The people who have it I think have it for the long term and it's about a 9 out of 10 or 10/10 in pain level.

[Taylor Culbertson]

Throw one AIDS infected needle in the center of the cage and ill pay to watch.

[Chris Herzog]

What's funny is that in the UK judo is the preserve of nice middle-class kids, and watching children's judo you'll see kids being put to the mat much more violently than anything I saw in this match. Strange how when you lose the pyjamas and put a fence around it people are up in arms.

To be fair though, Sky news is a joke over here. There's better coverage of the story here, which clarifies that the kid was crying because he'd never lost before, nothing to do with an injury.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/se...-fight-preston

However there is a clear distinction between Judo and Submission Grappling:

1) A real international govering body (IJF) thats oversees every country's Nation Governing Body.
2) No Submissons. Ages 13+ can Choke, 16 + can do armlocks.

[David Rosado]

Ignorance of the media!!! They're just like the media in the US. Trying to spin it into something. It was a grappling match that happen to be in a cage. Kids were crying...Wow, go to a pee wee wrestling tournament and count how many kids cry!

Exactly.

[bobby rivers]

Media exec~ " No matter what they call it, use the term 'cagefighting' as much as possible."

[rock d]

What about using children as spectacle? as paid for entertainment? Similar to kid actors?

[James Steele]

I believe that there is a time and a place, and this wasn't it. Problem with "cage fighting" is that it is a victim of its own successful marketing. What images spring to mind when I say "martial art"? Self defence? Discipline? Strength and flexibility? Now try again with with "cage fighting". If you're the media or Joe public, you'd probably be thinking about a cage or pit, where two men are locked in where the only way out is to beat your opponent to death while the crowd watching are baying for blood.

I'm a maths teacher, and I've lost track of the number of children at school asking me if I'm a "cage fighter". Trouble is as soon as I say that I train in MMA or grappling, they lose interest.

[Tyler Timmermans]

these pussies make me want to live in Thailand