• Granbo's Holy Hotrod@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        For who? The person thinking, “look, I am willing to have my face turned into hamburger and have a high chance of brain damage but I draw a hard line if someone is juicing?” Or the chuds betting on it?

        • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          7 hours ago

          Either they all should be able to juice or none of them. In fact, Mark Hunt sued the UFC over this very thing. The UFC was scheduling him to fight juiced fighters and it shortened his career.

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          12 hours ago

          If someone has an unfair advantage when they’re doing a bike race, then that person steals the other person’s glory and money. If someone has an unfair advantage during a fight then they’re stealing the other person’s glory and money AND they get beat to a fucking bloody pulp when they shouldn’t have.

      • phar@lemmy.world
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        16 hours ago

        Maybe some people believe they should all equally be able to drug up as much as they want. They’re beating each other up for money and fun anyway. Maybe increase the spectacle. Fights between the best fighters science can create.

        The day the cybernetic implants start will be a hell of day.

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            6 hours ago

            We’re going this far We might as well just fry up the flesh of the losers and sell that instead

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          14 hours ago

          They just tried that with the Enhanced Games and it sucked.

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      14 hours ago

      this They are a bunch of brain dead meat heads who contribute nothing to society. If they want to get all juiced up before they punch each other fucking let them.

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        13 hours ago

        Wow, that’s quite a statement. There’s definitely a higher-than-average group of meat heads and assholes (both the fighters and the fans) but they’re also athletes like any other. Many of them have trained their entire lives to compete. McGregor is the most visible, and unfortunately he’s an absolute piece of shit, but it’s ignorant to project that onto every martial artist.