Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "America’s First Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship" video.

  1. Look, I sympathize with these guys, and if they wanna beat themselves to dangerous injury or death in a controlled environment, I'd say it's not that much different from several other sports out there, including some of the biggest ones. And sure, plenty of people will have their adrenaline-testosterone rush to be a fan and back this up, but in the end, this isn't about the sport being "too violent", the image of blood, or stuff like that. It's totally about longevity of players and the sports dynamics. This is part of the reason why boxing uses gloves and why there's stuff like WWE or even that other one Vice covered not long ago that pops up in the end of this video - Deathmatch Wrestling. Here's the real problem with bareknuckle that fighters and the guy who is trying to make it happen will soon find out: fighters will get wrecked too fast and too permanently. This is why it's an underground sport. And this is despite being winner or loser. A hard direct hit with bare knuckles on the face not only causes some serious trauma to the receiving side, the giving side can also end up with some broken fingers there. And yes, professional fighters are hardened and will mostly avoid these sort of injuries, but as stunts people and other professionals that have to deal with direct contact will know, you can't guarantee 100% avoidance all the time. So what you get in the end is unpredictable times for fights, high risks of not being able to keep a champion or favorite on the podium, and as the sports grow bigger and older the more you are gonna have problems with stuff like crippled retired fighters condemning the sport as a whole, the more you will have a public rejection, the more you'll have issues with participants from all sides. Because as people familiar with fight sports and the editors of this video knows well, fighting games goes around celebrity culture, or cult of individuals/personalities. There's a good reason this video centered on the story of the fighters, instead of being a technical explanation of what bare knuckle fighting achieved - it's because all these contact sports get fans around fighters, celebrities, the big figures that it puts up. Paradoxically, when it's just starting, you are more prone to move things forwards because people who are following the initial steps are all fans willing to overlook whatever problems they see in it. The hope these guys have is that the sport gets big faster than it can fail. Like boxing, MMA or, you know, american football. Then it reaches a point where even if some problematic stuff comes out, fanaticism and money are enough of an impediment for it to stop, because it'll happen officially or not. We all know what has been happening for quite a while with boxing fighters, with super bowl stars, with past champions like that. They pay dearly after retirement for a career of abuse. Do I personally care? Nope. I'm not a sports fans anyways, and I think people should be free to like or dislike whatever they want to. And if fights and fighters are well regulated and safety of fighters are protected as much as they see fit, they are coming forward well educated and have risks an potential problems well explained, it's just a risk several other athletes are taking everyday. I'd dare to say that some non-contact olympian sports athletes are probably taking training regimes that can be even more detrimental to their healths right now in comparison to bare knuckle fighting. The end game of sports that are constantly pushing the limits of human bodies for records produces some of the most grueling training regimes imaginable. Out of context it'd be seen as pure torture, period. So yeah... ethically, if we're talking about what should and should not be allowed, I don't really think bare knuckle fighting is all that bad or essecially different from what we already have. If I were to say this doesn't have a place as sport, I think I'd have to do the same for several other bigger and very well known, celebrated sports too.
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