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 1 points 4 days ago

I do know what punch-drunk means. And yes, this may need to be a discussion. The mark of a functioning society is that as new information comes in, we learn from it and change.

If that means we have to talk about banning (American) football and even (English) Football, sure. Before that there’s be a discussion about what changes could be made, which is why English football is talking about stopping players from “heading” the ball. It would change the game, sure, but it would also stop ex-players from early senility, which seems to happen too often.

Now apply that same logic to cage fighting… There’s not much left of it is there?

[-] therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

There’s not much left of it is there?

Same can be said about boxing.

Look... this isn't really about the activity itself. It's really about the propaganda surrounding it. For comparison, think about how the Apartheid-regime used rugby to promote white supremacism and weaponised masculinity.

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