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The Media's Relationship with Truth

The purchase of the Ultimate Fight Championship is one of the greatest untold stories of the century. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise the began as no-holds-barred fights. In UFC, two men were put into a cage. Two men entered, one man left. It wasn't quite that violent, as sportmanship levels were high. Unlike boxing, where men batter each other into Parkinson's, no-holds-barred fighting offered an honorable out of the fight. Quitting is not just accepted: It's encouraged to avoid injury. Known as "tapping out," quitting has no shame. A small company named SEG owned the UFC. SEG profitably ran the UFC, by selling fights on PPV. In some cases, SEG sold as many as 300,000 PPV buys - which, in the early days of PPV, were huge numbers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 30, 2010 (boomark / email).