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Post by Darth Turkish on Dec 2, 2007 21:43:46 GMT -5
It was reported today that Sam Vasquez, a fighter that was injured in an October 20th fight, died in a hospice due to blood clots that supposedly was a result of trauma from the fight.
What sort of impact will this have on MMA in America and acceptance as a true sport and not a sideshow?
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Post by Trent Lawless on Dec 3, 2007 10:20:50 GMT -5
Could go either way. Depends on how incidents from an earlier time like Ray Mancini's are remembered. Something tells me it won't be much of an issue in the long term. People who like it, like it and people who don't, don't.
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Post by dukedave on Dec 3, 2007 12:38:18 GMT -5
I don't think it will have much effect until it happens in the UFC.
BTW - The thread title makes it sound like MMA sanctioned the death.
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Post by theamazingbadger on Dec 3, 2007 13:12:28 GMT -5
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but haven't people died in the ring in boxing matches and wrestling matches in the past?
If that's so it clearly hasn't had an effect on them. I belive people have died in football games too (again I could be wrong) but it hasn't lessened the popularity of the sport at all.
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Post by habbalah on Dec 3, 2007 19:12:42 GMT -5
It's the mma "sky is falling" syndrome. It's the line of thought that the first sign of trouble.. mma fans think that mma will implode on itself.
It happens almost at least every month. Pride is tied to the Yakuza, a fighter tests posetive for some drug.... , so forth and so on.
If the wrong people are paying attention... this could be bad. I don't think anythings going to really go wrong with this one... but that's me being realistic.
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IPPON!!
