Anyway I watched the Ultimate Fighter last night (as always) and was complaining here and there about Josh Koscheck and his antics when I decided to log onto Facebook. A friend of mine posted a very disturbing video of a fight in downtown San Jose that left me completely disgusted. It was a video from Halloween night (so glad I'm past the days of going downtown to waste time-- clubs, bars). A man was running around starting stuff and another man was filming it, it cuts forward to about 5 minutes later and the trash talker is getting BEAT. He was knocked out and people continued to kick his head. At one point they stole his shoes and his jeans.
I woke up this morning and saw that a bunch of my friends had re-posted the video and were saying that the man DESERVED to get beat up. I really don't understand what this society is coming to. None of my friends were THERE and they saw the same thing I saw on video, yet they believe someone deserves to get beat up and kicked around while they're unconscious? From what I saw on the video the guy was probably drunk, just running his mouth and struck a nerve with someone which then lead to an entire group of people to circle him and kick his butt. Knowing my friends, I know many of them (whom DID comment that he deserved this) who have started trash talking out of drunken stupidness just as bad or worse than the man who got beat up and they didn't get into fights.. if the tables were turned on them, they'd be the ones laying on the ground unconscious while the guy filming runs his mouth, but yet they don't seem to see anything wrong with this video. Hmm.. something is not right.
I've never punched anyone, but have been assaulted. I was not drunk so I can't say I've felt what this man was going through. And my assault lasted all of about 45 seconds, but it was enough to make me feel violated and scared for my safety. I was lucky that it was in a public area where there was security, police, and my friends nearby. Luckily, my knight-in-shining-amour of a boyfriend ran down and helped me up and away from the person who attacked me, but in the video NO one ran up to try to get the people away from the man laying on the ground. The person with the video camera LAUGHED and said "he's dead." How is that funny? I just don't get it. At the end of this video there are two females trying to get people to get away from this man, but no one was there to try to stop all of this when it was happening. I don't consider any of this a laughing matter.
I'm reminded of a now pretty popular video of former UFC hottie and now Bellator fighter Roger Huerta. This video was posted on TMZ and shows a man punching a woman in the back of the head in Austin, TX. This man walks off and Roger is suddenly shown on camera going after him. The video gets a little sketchy and people claim Roger is one person and then he's another in the fighting scenes, but what impressed me was that Roger didn't know either of these people. He stook up for the woman because a man should never hit a woman. The man got his butt handed to him. I still haven't heard of any charges being pressed against Roger. I can't imagine why that man would want to punch a woman, but I hope she's learned that she needs to stay the heck away from him!
& just because I think Roger is a beautiful specimen of a man here is a picture:
Some might find it interesting that I'm actually very against violence, yet I adore MMA. I just don't see why or how it would ever be necessary to try to kick someone's face in when they're completely drunk and obviously not realizing what they're saying-- or they're just putting on a "front" of being something they're not (which is SO common when people are drunk). I watch the UFC religiously. I have my favorites and hope for knock-outs, but with them there is medical personnel nearby and it's a controlled environment. I do get bothered when it seems like the guys are just laying on top of each other to show dominance, but there isn't much action, but that's the sport. I've seen guys get knocked out-- SCARY knocked out and enough blood that I'm near barfing, but I just love watching these fighters duke it out. I don't think I've seen many street fights in my life- maybe 2? I don't run with crowds that fight and try to stay the heck away from them. I'm not interested in them and wish there was a way that they could all be prevented.
This was more of a post of me blabbing.. if it doesn't make sense, please forgive me ;)
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