Bob Reilly Confirms He’s An Idiot With Latest MMA Attack
I hate to editorialize so heavily, but some things are just too absurdly ignorant and annoying to tackle more tactfully. New York State Assemblyman Bob Reilly recently spoke to MMA Weekly about why he is voting no on the bill to legalize mixed martial arts in New York.
Check out this gem:
“I think that [MMA] basically is a glorification of violence, but it certainly promotes violence. In itself, I think it’s a very brutal sport that creates, obviously, physical harm to the participants, and I don’t think there’s any other sport who’s purpose is to harm your opponent. But we know that in mixed martial arts, that, in fact, is one of the purposes.”
Wow. I can understand if this Reilly fella is a bit old and out of touch with what exactly MMA is all about, but to state in a recorded conversation that no other sport involves purposefully harming an opponent is beyond moronic. I wonder if Bob Reilly has ever heard of that crazy new fangled boxing they’re always talking about on the radio. In fact, boxing has been regulated in New York for quite some time and if I’m not mistaken, in boxing your best bet is to knock out your opponent, which has got to harm them just a little bit, right Bob?
I won’t even get into tearing apart the portion where Reilly actually says that MMA in New York would hurt the economy, but you can peruse it for yourself if you feel like a good laugh. I suppose news like this is a friendly reminder that regardless of how amazing and popular a spectacle mixed martial arts has become, there are still plenty of decision makers out there whose ignorance only derails the sports budding progress.
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Yea, maybe Bob Reilly should have a talk with Muhammad Ali about the affects of boxing or watch an old Evander Holyfield interview and watch him now, you tell me if these boxers arent doing harm to each other. ironicly MMA is probably less violent than Boxing. in MMA when a guy is KO’d he isnt given time to try n fight, the fight is called. unlike boxing that allows a guy to receive numerous concussions. no MMA fighter has ever died in the ring or after a fight (knock on wood), unlike boxing which has endured that tragedy a few times in its history. God, how did this douche bag ever get elected with that myopic thinking?
1 did but they didnt do his physical or something but there has been 1 death in some **** organization
Yeah, I think they said it was related to a pre-existing condition, not only due to injuries sustained in the fight.
actually 3 guys have…two over seas and one here. Big However, they were all told by physicians prior to their fights that they should not compete due to injury. I do believe in every case they were not facing the same regulation statutes that most MMA events are governed by.
Boxing usually averages 1-2 deaths a year in it’s REGULATED events. Not to mention in football you have hits on guys that are laced with bad intentions every time. In baseball pitchers throw a 95mph baseball at batter’s heads. In soccer guys slide tackle with out any intent of finding the ball. Plus I haven’t even made to the NHL where some checks leave guys motionless for minutes and fights occur every game. (I purposely left out NBA because well really name one fight that you weren’t rolling on the ground laughing after words).
what a retard…Yea its not like footballs purpose is to smash the other team? wouldn’t it just be two hand touch if it wasn’t…NFL players occur just as many if not more injuries than mma fighters but yet its not brutal and mma is…and yes bob mma is dangerous but what sport isnt…people have died in baseball, basketball, foobtall, nascar….even golf lol sounds like bob is just an old ignorant conservative that doesn’t see both sides of the story..
Hey, don’t bring conservative into this, for two reasons.
1. Bob Reilly is a democrat, therefore NOT a conservative.
2. Myself (a conservative) and many of the biggest conservatives I know are HUGE fans of MMA.
ok…how an old ignorant d-bag….sound better?
NOBAMA 08!
That’s better. I don’t want conservatives getting a bad wrap over MMA, that’s all.
LOL…too late, gun.
cole do you support gay marrige and abortion?
Hey hey hey, lets keep this about MMA, I’ll create a group and forum if you want to talk politics, but lets not get into that here.
I dont abortion is murder and gay marriga is dumb if you cant have a baby naturally then thats all the proof you need that its wrong…if you poke a guy in the butt and no baby comes then gay marrige is wrong which it is but anyways……..I may disagree with you cole but I will still wish you good luck in your fight with junie even though i think junie is gonna rape you….lol jk
ok srry jusin i just got carried away…cant wait i love poltics
If you want to discuss this stuff, take it here
lol yea everyone should have rights to their own body…as long as your decisions don’t affect me, I could care less what people do. Not trying to start a discussion…just answering your question dung-slinger
bob reilly is gay, people need to learn that mma is safer than boxing,football,cheerleading etc…but they let them go…..i guess ramming your helmet into another guys stomach isnt promoting violence but being trained in martial and using those skills to outwit,outpower and outlast your opponent is a bloodbath….i mean come on look at the proof the only reason alot of people watch and play football is to watch big hits ..i mean llok at all the views on youtube of football tackles alot more views than any mma fight on youtube……In mma’s most wanted Bob Reilly is public enemy #1!
People watch racing for the wrecks too, I have friends that are HUGE NASCAR fans (I’m not a fan), and they say “Best way to get a nap on Sunday afternoon, get that nice hum going and fall asleep, and then you wake up when the announcer yells because there’s a wreck and then watch the replay.”
I’ll do my best to bite my tongue, keep this MMA focused and not respond to your highly-intelligent political views.
I’m not sure Bob Reilly’s opinions matter all that much. If the NY State Athletic Commission and the Gov are in favor of legalizing MMA (which they are) how much power does Reilly have?
I think the bottom line to this argument is NY is in serious need of $$$ and a UFC event in NYC is estimated to generate $11M for the city. Enough said.
Well, paralyze, presumably the legislature must vote to allow it, then the governor must sign it into law. That’s my reading of things anyway. You, voting on a bill to legalize, etc.
What I find funny, is how he says MMA promotes violence, but yet the sports entertainment WWE is more then welcome to go to New York anytime. They even have a WWE building in Time Square. Having children and young adults watching men and women smash each other in the head with a steel chair, ladder, ring bell, etc doesn’t promote violence? Imo, there are more kids out there imitating professional wrestling moves then MMA. But since it’s all “fake”, it’s okay?
Good point…
i was going to bring that up willy d, its a load of bull shiit man, mma is a very skilled sport, yeah people get hurt but its not just some bum off the street who’s getting hurt, these guys are very skilled athletes who have been training most of there lifes, who enjoy what they do, i can’t belive new york is against mma, new york is one violent place imo, ive never been but from the things ive read there are alot of gangs and muggings in new york, maybe this bob should put his attention into that rather then riping on the great SPORT that is mma.
Let’s search the records of who has contributed how much to his campaign. I bet there’s a whole lot of boxing promoters with open wallets at his rallies and fundraisers…
Lol…I think I will get raped by junie too!!! haha the only reason I picked this name is because I don’t like the way he fights…I was just going to use this account to mouth people, but I actually started to like discussing mma…
whos everybody’s picks for franklin/hendo and shogun/coleman????
I got franklin by tko 1st or 2nd
I guess I’ll take coleman cuz I’ve only seen shogun fight once and I wasn’t really impressed….
One thing i have always objected to is the use of the word “violence” when describing MMA. Violence is an action usually perpetrated upon an innocent party and brings to mind criminal assaults and such. It is a very vague and near sighted definition for a contact sport or combat sport. However i have learned that one mans opinion is simply that and through years of following this sport i have been awed by the skills , athleticism and training regiment of these amazing athletes.
It is a shame that people with power choose to follow their personal likes and dislikes and ignore the mass to satisfy their personal agenda.
Amen brother.
It seems that Mr Reilly is following in the same foot steps as John McCain’s **** ass tried to do ten years ago which is to make some noise and static about something that is moderately controversial like the UFC and blow it out of proportion by saying it is evil even though he knows nothing of the sport, Reilly is just trying to get his name in the ears of voters in New York. F*ck this assh*le, he should just stick to watching football players blowing their knees out once a week and his favorite mumblings of the once best boxer in the world Ali, or Cassius Clay as i like to call him.
IF I AM WRONG SOMEONE CORRECT ME? BUT ISN’T IT A MEDICAL FACT THAT BOXING AND FOOTBALL IS WAY WORSE ON YOUR BODY THEN MMA? AND THAT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A DEATH IN THE UFC OR AFTER AN EVENT? SOMETHING THAT HAS HAPPENED IN BOTH BOXING AND FOOTBALL. GUYS GET PARILIZED, BRAIN DEAD, OR TURN INTO VEGATABLES!! I CAN’T SPELL, SO WHAT? I AM STILL RIGHT! BILL IS A DILL!
No deaths related to UFC events, but other MMA events, yes, see above.
What an idiot.
I still get the avatars over the comments.
If you are using IE, switch to Firefox. That will fix the avatar issue.
Do you want to know the sport with the most deaths per year? Scuba diving, thats right. 1000+ deaths a year are Scuba diving related, which is even more than the most considered dangerous sports like NASCAR and motorcross and most extreme sports. MMA rules are there to ensure the safety of the athletes and it is doing a very good job of it. The people who are against MMA are the same tools who tried to ban boxing, very ignorant and complain about everything, they should be ignored haha.
#@%^ u Bob he needs 2 get koed