The mainstream bites.

Mixed martial arts move into the "mainstream" sports culture of the US has had one overwhelmingly positive impact - some of the hardest working athletes in professional sports are finally being paid more commensurate with their efforts. The rest of it - ignorant sportswriters writing trite articles and more and more marketing aimed at the lowest common denominator "new" fan who has no idea about the ground game or submissions or anything other than blood and knockouts. *End Rant*

Fightlinker » Blog Archive » I hate the mainstream:

"You know, I was a happier person back when ‘The Mainstream’ left MMA the fuck alone. At least then I didn’t have to hear the opinion of every shmuck sports columnist who had a bit of space to fill at the bottom of their spelling bee writeup. But what’s worse than these retards are the idiots who are trying to cash in on the MMA demographic; people so out of touch they honestly don’t have a clue who we are or why we watch the UFC. There’s no better example of this than the big Hostel tie in at UFC71.

For those not in the know, Hostel is one of those new breed horror flicks in the vein of Saw that goes for really in-your-face violence. However, the Hostel series is different because it really concentrates on the sadistic psychological and physical torture / murder of women.

...And what kind of market do they think would go for this sadistic ultra-violence? Oh, mixed martial arts fans! They get off to people beating eachother up, so of course they’ll jump at the chance to watch a naked woman get butchered like cattle."