Argumentative Essay: Banning Gets Serious For MMA

Banning Gets Serious For MMA

A cut or bruise here and there and maybe even a few broken limbs from participating in a sport aren’t negative things; it means the person is taking the sport seriously. Colliding into other people and even fighting the opposite player isn’t that hard to imagine for a real sport; in fact, that is what we can categorize as a contact sport such as football, hockey, or boxing. That same philosophy can be used with mixed martial arts (MMA) - a contact sport, which is a mixture of various fighting styles such as wrestling and karate. Mixed martial arts has many similarities to other contact sports but struggles to be deemed an official sport. Mixed martial arts can be very helpful to people, especially children who can learn the skills at their young age and continue to use them throughout life, if and when given the chance. In general, banning MMA could be interfering with a person’s rights. MMA is being promoted and sponsored, but with so many bans MMA has a tough time showing how much it has changed safety wise.

For example, “After a fight against Jorge Rivera, Nate Quarry had to undergo facial reconstruction surgery” (“The Worst Injuries in Mixed Martial Arts”). When a person hears the word reconstruction in that context, the person might think the worst of the worst; for instance, when I read that quote my initial thought was oh my gosh this fighter’s face had to be recreated from scratch, and before he underwent the surgery, his face was unrecognizable to even his family. Also when people hear of injuries like that, they begin to ponder safety regulations for the sport. To make the sport’s brutality even more horrendous, there have even been deaths. To cite an instance, a fighter, Michael Kirkham, passed away two days after a fight in Columbia, South Carolina