Is the UFC considered a sport?

[teetwoohsix]

Right on Leon,ditto that!!I don't "follow" it either,but I sure do enjoy watching the fights.They do have a lot of the fights here in Vegas,usually at Mandalay Bay Arena,but I haven't been to one yet(usually am working).I did go to something similar,not UFC,but an "offshoot",where they had a lot of local fighters(mostly lightweights),and even had a couple of girlfights-I think these fighters are trying to "get" to the UFC............(not the girls)........I forgot what the fight was labeled as,I'll see if I still have the ticket stubs,for it was a couple years ago.Maybe like minor league baseball compared to major league baseball

[3-2-count]

No doubt about it, it's a sport!!!
Love it.

[ibuysportsephemera]

MMA is awesome...Dana White is a great promoter and the Ultimate Fighter reality show is one of my favorite TV shows. JM2¢

[Abravefan11]

I don't see how anyone could not consider it a sport. It is sport in it's rawest form.

Strength, speed, stamina, agility, skill, it has it all.

I have to admit that it is tough for me to watch sometimes. Though I know the fighters are skilled in their respective disciplines and choose to be there, the shear brutality can be overwhelming at times.

[toppcat]

Definitley a sport and now a more popular one. ESPN and our local paper (Newsday) are now covering UFC and I have to say while I am not a fan, all the nephews in my family in the 15-25 age group love it. So there is an audience already built is as the sport grows.

[barrysloate]

That sport is much too violent for me. Couldn't they compete in a more friendly manner...say over a game of checkers, or Trivial Pursuit? That would cut the violence considerably.

[chaddurbin]

nothing will surpass pride in my eyes...when sakuraba was taking on the gracies, silva at his very beastly peak, fedor becoming an ice-cold machine, cro cop nogueira etc etc...but ufc have good marketing and they are definitely the face of MMA when it's all said and done.