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Originally Posted by feralBoy
You should travel to asia. You will notice alot of swastika's all over the place. Lots of people have swastika tattoos as well. It has nothing to do with being a nazi.
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I used to live in Bangkok, Sukhumvit Soi 13 to be precise. Good times. But Alex wasn't scheduled to fight there, was he? He was scheduled to fight in a far more politically correct place: America, which has a large Jewish population that gets outraged at that sort of thing and would make life very uncomfortable for Affliction and MMA in general. For example, read
this:
Not surprisingly, this rapidly rising blood sport is likewise wildly popular among racist skinheads and other young extremists with a thirst for violence. Many white supremacist online forums have recently established discussion groups devoted specifically to MMA; skinhead gangs across the country are raising money by hosting illegal backyard tournaments; and retired white supremacist cage fighter Mike Buell runs a major MMA training school in Arizona whose logo is a Celtic cross (often used as a white supremacist symbol) and the phrase "Hail Victory" (the German equivalent is "sieg heil").
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Last Oct. 18, shortly after Costa's comments and pictures of his tattoos were republished widely on MMA fan websites, Gary Shaw, the live events president of the parent company that owns King of the Cage, issued this statement: "I try not to allow anyone to fight in the cage or the ring that has anything inappropriate either on their gear or tattooed permanently on their body. And that means either ethnic, or racial, or anything offensive to the general public. I was unaware of the situation but I'm in the process of handling it now. Hopefully, it will never happen again."
But it did, less than two months later. Costa fought in a King of the Cage event held last Dec. 18. For the first time, though, he lost. Davis, for his part, did not return two E-mails seeking clarification on his league's regulation of fighters with "inappropriate" tattoos.
Etc, etc. Not the kind of public relations nighmare Affliction or MMA needs, no?