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The Ghost of MMA Future
by Andrew McGuigan
Do not fear me, human. Do not recoil from my Guida hair-cut, Tanner homage beard or my tattered UFC 1 event shirt.
I was there in the beginning; I shall be there in the end.
For I am the Ghost of MMA Future!
As you celebrate the explosion of MMA’s popularity and dream of the day when your sport is heralded across the world, think again human!
What if your prayers are fully answered?
It will not all be rosy and joyous, dear fan.
Oh no.
Come with me into a future where MMA has taken hold as the number one sport in the world.
Let me be your guide as we travel forward to the dark legacy of popularist, mainstream MMA.
There is a storm coming, and with the positives, you must also take the negatives!
WOOOOOooooooo……
As MMA takes hold of the world, you will see a last push of opposition and animosity before the war is truly won. The early television fighter interviews will be as inane as you would expect, with the phrase ‘Human Cockfighting’ being wheeled out one last time by the only people to ever use it: moronic, ill-informed puppet presenters.
This final pathetic shot and the overwhelmingly well argued response of outrage it incites in fight fans worldwide, signals at last the start of MMA’s domination.
Long time fans will celebrate a victory, but very soon the glint of profit attracts the wolves.
The true fan and the fad follower shall become indistinguishable as fighter t-shirts become a fashion must have. Bandwagon designers and mass producing corporations smother the markets in clichéd, uninspired rags.
See the new clothing, see its skulls and shiny foily bits. See how every term in the MMA thesaurus is suffixed with the word ‘wear’ and plastered across another churned out design.