NY Fox Affiliate Hates MMA So Much It Can Barely Stand to Sensationalize It
CagePotato.com — (Props: MMA Payout) Prepare yourselves, Potato Nation. What you are about to see in the above video from MyFox New York is not like anything you’ve ever seen. Unless you’ve seen MMA before. In that case, yeah, it’s pretty much the same thing you’ve seen before. Still, it shocks the hell out of this Fox affiliate. They found it so deplorably violent they went ahead and added bullwhip sound effects to it. That should solve it. Oh, and did they mention that one guy works for the MTA? His eye is swollen. Now you know why the G train ...

BFTS
Fightlinker.com — BFTS September 12, 2008 – 11:00 am by fightlinker Cage Potato says: Now, we could go back and forth about whether this kind of unlicensed, unsanctioned event is keeping MMA illegal in New York, or whether keeping it unlicensed and unsanctioned is only making inevitable events like these needlessly dangerous, but I’d rather not have that discussion. Instead I’d rather discuss news outlets that want an excuse to show violence, while still managing to look down their collective noses at a sensationalized, edited, voiced-over version of the sport of MMA. Why in god’s name would we want to discuss that? How can anyone expect the ...

Fox 5 Hinders Legalization Efforts in NY
MMA News & Blog — While there is still a push to get MMA legalized in NY, there are still news reports and people who are determined to make sure that it doesn’t get legalized.  Her preamble to the video makes it sound so much worse than it really is: The reason there are underground fights is because it’s not sanctioned. If NY allowed sanctioned fighting, these types of events would not exist. Reports like these ultimately drive me crazy. Send an email to Fox 5 in NY showing your support of MMA. ...