That is the ONLY damned way I'd go to this debacle.

Some people keep referring to it as wrestling, which it's not. Wrestling is choreographed and if someone actually gets hurt, it's a mistake, whereas injury in UFC is apparently a drawing point, mores the pity. Never attended one but have seen a match on tv. I much prefer the fake, choreographed stuff, better on my conscience as I know the person getting pounded on is not really getting hurt.

In a new carnival tent, that used to be Our Peoples House. What a f**king embarrassment we have become. This is a three-ring circus, bring in the clowns.

If the White House is safe enough for Trump to host this fucking thing, why does he need a “drone proof” ballroom?

— JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz.bsky.social) 2026-05-26T17:51:19.973Z

I think next on the Whitehouse lawn is slap fighting and then Roshambo

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And fake - next to boxing it's the oldest event in the Olympiad. Are you thinking of WWE? We actual wrestling fans (and grappler) call that "wrasslin'"
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Some things are just non-negotiable.

or even to the 508 Bar downtown (which I think closed recently, for good reason), you'll have a good idea.

I don't even like the crowds at football games. I just think it's a very odd thing to do at the White House. I don't know if it's going to be televised, but I suppose it will be. What a way to represent the USA!

Boxing, yes. I sat ringside in the same row as Senator Ted Kennedy & family at the second Frazier vs Ali fight.

That had to be amazing.

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Pretty much the same crowd that assaulted law enforcement at the nation's capitol on January 6th, 2021.

I don’t have the time or money to waste going to one of those. I think tickets are usually pretty pricey.

Closest was going to a sports bar to meet a friend while the fight was on. Oddly enough this was the one back in summer 2024 when Trump showed up.

So …. No way in hell for me.
TSF seems to love watching people hurt each other. What does that say about him.

It's not significantly different than boxing. I was part of a martial arts group where one member was an MMA fighter and we went to a couple of his fights to support him.

It's not super blood thirsty and people tap before most injuries happen. The referees are trained to stop fights when someone can't continue.

What you see as celebrating violence or hurting other people others see as a skill. It's a matter of perspective. Are football players who are celebrated for hitting other players hard being celebrated for violence? There's an awful lot of violence on every snap with men weighing 250-300+ lbs smashing into each other. Hockey still has fights and goons.

Yes? ...and they have the brain injuries to demonstrate it

Singling out the UFC audience doesn't match the reality that we often celebrate violence. But the NFL audience isn't caricatured like the UFC audience is.

It is the audience. Tt gets all fired up. Fights sometimes break out in the audience as well. Same with football games. The assholes in the audience get even more assholish. I remember one football game i went to out of town. My team was playing their team, and I word some team merch. I got threatened by assholes in the audience. I actually left. You only have to tell me you'll kick my ass once.

I’ve been to numerous MMA matches as well. I bought my date a glasses of wine at one. I’ve never seen a fight in the crowd although these were not UFC. I can imagine people shelling out $500 a seat plus are fighting anywhere. Maybe at Philadelphia UFC.

It was a sporting event. I also have attended baseball, football, hockey etc. I’d go to boxing if I could get good tickets at a reasonable big name event.

At the MMA. Fights we had good tickets and we dressed nice. This was not an event where you wear a southern flag tshirt. The woman ate wearing nice dresses etc and the front rows may be on television. I personally don’t see a political side of going to watch sports. The events are more popular in California than anywhere else.

Fights put on by the local club - some very good talent and even some state and national ranked fighters- nothing fancy, held in the local community college gym, people cheering on their friends, all ages. It was great fun, good fighters and real respect. I miss those.

UFC is just a hot mess - the participants are real athletes, but it's just theatre.

Back with boxing and now mma. Big money attracts payoffs. I don’t like that.

our hooligan style 'fans' than the players. If the players hit another player violently they are (or at least should be) red carded, ejected, and suspended for multiple games.

It's soccer hooligans, it's people in the audience at concerts, etc.

Love me some Grave Digger 👍🏻

that would go to see public executions or lynchings in the old days

But it really no longer delivers what it promised, and is really boring a lot of the time. I don't seek it out anymore.

The "rules" of kick boxing and boxing sort of allow for more interesting events, IMO.

The few decent ones, men and women, were forced out.

It will be a MAGA, trashy fightfest.

even though I was part of the targeted demographic when it first launched. I always and still do prefer boxing.

A tightrope walker is fine until he isn't. A racer is fine until he isn't and in a sport where one of its purposes is to display how much punishment one can take before losing a fighter is fine until he isn't. These are the lines between life and death that people are encouraging with their support. It is only a matter of time before the line is crossed. Whether it's physically disfigured, disabled, or death doesn't matter to those supporters. They will shrug it off as if it was some kind of freak event and that it wasn't what they came to see.

the White House. So expect wealthy assholes, celebrities and "influencers" to make up most of the attendees on site. The alleged 100k that will watch it on some sort of giant screen could be anybody as there aren't any tickets being sold, I don't believe. I don't think it will be all useless MAGA chuds since it's a free event and for some reason, UFC (a/k/a people beating the shit out of each other) is well received by a lot of dems as well. I'm not sure why, but here we are.

as the show. A lineup like those losers who were lined up behind Dump for his inauguration.

And by August they're having immigrants fighting lions?

Also....be wary of a false flag

Oh...and money laundering too

I’ve watched UFC for about 25 years, maybe longer, since they were on a little channel called Spike and their first event in Denver. Before I begin it is sad what has happened to the UFC, because of Dana White, and there is a reason why this decade long fan doesn’t watch a lot of fights anymore.

I was always, and still am, happy that the UFC and MMA exist. Kids that wrestled in high school now have somewhere they can continue their skills after high school or college. Young men and women who have practiced disciplines such as Kung Fu, Karate, Judo, Jui-Jitso, muay thai, etc., now can compete at a sport (yes, it is a sport and not violence), can continue to work towards a job, yes a job, that can pay them and they can have fun, compete, and might end up being millionaires just by being competent at what they do.

There are rounds, just like boxing, weight classes, and referees who stop the rounds.

What has the changed is the hoopla around the sport. Long ago, Dana White, couldn’t find anyone who would allow him to have matches in Las Vegas. He talked to Donald Trump, and he said sure, you can do that in my hotels. This is where his loyalty began. Trump would sit by Dana and ask him questions, such as, “How did that man become so large”, “How can he fight like that?”, just silly questions that a young boy would ask, even though he wasn’t a young man.

As the UFC grew, stars appeared, and the absolute worst and best was Connor McGreggor. His mouth and rhetoric changed the UFC into what it is today. Everyone wanted to be famous like him, and now most of the UFC fighters spew so much sh…t, that a lot of people can’t listen to them. The fights are still good, just not the circus around them.

MMA is a sport and might someday be in the Olympics, just like boxing.

And by the way, I am a very liberal OLD woman.

But I will not be watching the white house spectacle. He has literally almost ruined this sport for me and that can be blamed on Dana White, the man who built up this sport and now is ruining it for many lifelong fans.