Forum Overview :: Clay Fighters

So did anyone else watch this? by Worm 03/23/2009, 8:10am PDT If the allure of MMA has always been having a fair fight with evenly matched competitors who have an interesting and technical fight then I don't think this qualifies. However, I'm pretty sure the allure is seeing a guy get the shit kicked out of him, so in that this succeeds. The victim was pretty unlikable since his hair was about a foot tall, but it does a pretty good job, and Ryan Mayhem Mullahey or whatever is a good host (but doesn't fight) and by good host I mean he's a irritating douche with awful dialog, so he fits perfectly in this show. It takes a very odd structure which I didn't understand at first(maybe it's how MMA works?), the first round is grapples only (I don't know if the bully can grapple the other guy?) and the bully loses 1k for each time he has to tap out. This might sound gay, but when they get to the kick boxing section you realize why they do it, so the fight actually has some length. Since it just feels like borrowed time as some poor bastard tries to dodge a professional fighter for four minutes to keep the remaining 5k. The first episode has the bully walking away with 2k, so it feels more gameshow than reality TV. It's pretty tame considering how self assure the bullies are, and I imagine they could get them to do a full length fight with no headgear, instead they do grapples, and then finish it off with kick boxing.

MTV+MMA: Bully Beatdown by Bodybag 03/20/2009, 10:07pm PDT     And they thought Jackass got a lot of sub tapes? This is a lawsuit waiting to ha NT by Jerry Whorebach 03/20/2009, 10:21pm PDT         "It's like...American Gladiator, for ASSHOLES" NT by MTV Pitch-guy 03/21/2009, 2:54pm PDT         We can't wait to declare Obama's America even more morally rudderless!! NT by Conservative pundits 03/21/2009, 3:56pm PDT             Giving 10,000$ to some guy you never cared much about beyond smacking him around by Fortinbras 03/21/2009, 5:32pm PDT                 You could buy those things for $10,000 and still have change left over. NT by Jerry Whorebach 03/21/2009, 6:52pm PDT                     Maybe (your mom) in (Canadian Dollars) NT by Caltrops Insult Generator 03/21/2009, 8:28pm PDT                         This is passing the Turing test. NT by Fred-Ex 03/21/2009, 9:29pm PDT     So did anyone else watch this? by Worm 03/23/2009, 8:10am PDT         Awful by Fussbett 03/31/2009, 11:14am PDT