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Originally Posted by Zeke's Chaingun

I understand that, but it wasn't the publicity that caused McCain to hate MMA. He didn't like it because of the rules it had. I refuse to believe McCain, even without actually watching the UFC, didn't at least look into the rules the UFC employed. If it was just the publicity saying it was a Bloodsport, but in reality it had sanctioned rules, then he wouldn't have done anything IMO. McCain, even though I really dislike the guy for his position on the UFC, isn't so stupid as to not at least do a little bit of checking into what the UFC was before going balls to the wall against it. The reason he went against it is because the reality was that it was a Bloodsport like he heard.

He heard about it from the publicity of course, but then again, so did we, and that's why the UFC survived. The UFC survived because we heard about it, we become fans, and we kept supporting it. So in the long haul, the UFC has survived and become more and more successful because through it's publicity it reached far more fans than opponants. If it had no publicity, then yeah, maybe McCain wouldn't have heard about it to go against it, but then again, maybe we wouldn't have heard about it either and therefore the sport could have died right then and there. So I stand by what I said. The publicity has worked FOR the UFC.

Noboby is concerned with the reality of the situation. McCain coudln't tell you what the rules where and still couldn't. WHen you hear people talk about the brutality of the UFC the biggest complaints are that you don't wear gloves, fishhooking, eye gauging etc.. all things that aren't correct. People don't let something as insignificant as the facts get in the way.