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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (81461)	6/6/2000 5:31:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Skeets, In a true no holds barred fight, the first guy to draw a gun is likely to win. <g> That is one thing I dislike about all of the no holds barred scams. The oldest of them, Ultimate Fight Championship, is run by the Gracie family. It is nearly always won by a practitioner of, you got it, Gracie Jiu Jitsu. Don't get me wrong. Gracie Jiu Jitsu is powerful mojo and I sure don't want to mess with Royce Gracie or any of his brothers. But if you make the rules, you have to favor certain styles, by definition. UFC is infamous for favoring the "grappling sports" and penalizing the "striking sports." But, some of the others go the other way. The Russians had a Greco-Roman wrestler who I always thought could beat up anyone alive. But you always have to wonder about the rules. I used to think boxers were superb athletes until I saw Joe Frazier in one of those tv Challenge of the Champion shows. Dead last in the bike race. Nearly drowned in the swimming sprint. Of course, he had just been flattened for the first time in his life by George Foreman so he may not have been in competition shape. Running backs seems to have a lot of the right characteristics for athletic greatness.