Is use of cage banned in Netherlands?

[NielsN]

Nope, liberalism only takes fiscal conservatism even further.
Conservatism=small government.
Liberalism= Free market solves all problems

Gniffel.

En met MMA bedoel je eigenlijk tennis?

[Strange Cutbean]

Dont listen to this dumbass, cagefighting lost its priviledges under the Kok administration who were about as conservative as Mao ze Tong. The war against kickboxing is also solely conducted by the labor party.

It was a conservative minister, Erica Terpstra who 'banned' it because she was disgusted by it.

[Italian*Berlusconi*]

the funny thing is, fighting under the same rules is no problem in a ring, but in a cage it's a problem. Simpleminded at its best...

[Strange Cutbean]

Ik blijf het herhalen; Ieder jaar vallen er meer als twee honderd doden in de alpen. Skiers, ongeveer 75 en wandelaars, ongeveer 140. (even uit mijn hoofd) Als een bergbeklimmer een ongeluk krijgt moet een hele rits mensen hun leven wagen om deze te redden of zijn/haar lijk te bergen. Maar als ik een beetje moeilijke berg beklim krijg ik een lintje van de koningin en als ik in een kooi wil vechten of dit wil organiseren heb meer zekerheid dat dit niet mag dan kans dat het wél mag. Want kooivechten, bah, dat moeten wij niet willen met zijn allen.

[Facade]

All of it has to do with the perception and acceptance of prize fighting in Dutch culture, rational facts have little to do with it. It has never been embedded and even before the incidents that have occurred cage fighting has always been perceived as a barbaric activity at best.

[Italian*Berlusconi*]

All of it has to do with the perception and acceptance of prize fighting in Dutch culture, rational facts have little to do with it. It has never been embedded and even before the incidents that have occurred cage fighting has always been perceived as a barbaric activity at best.

i think the first cage fight in Belgium has something to do with that
2 refs in the cage and Rooze could stomp a wrestler / boxers face in till the towel was thrown in.. those images arn't forgotten by the media in stead of the beautifull images of the MMA world today...

[Facade]

i think the first cage fight in Belgium has something to do with that
2 refs in the cage and Rooze could stomp a wrestler / boxers face in till the towel was thrown in.. those images arn't forgotten by the media in stead of the beautifull images of the MMA world today...

Perhaps, but i think the general concept of two human beings fighting in a cage as you would put two animals in a cage to fight each other is a concept that repulses a lot of people.

[Johannes de Sloper]

Yes, people tend to see it as dog fights to the death.
The whole "Two go in, one comes out" thing you see in movies as well.
The whole image of the cage has to change.

It's up to the sport to show the mainstream audience that MMA in a cage is safer than in a boxing ring.
And that MMA is not a bloodsport, but a normal fightsport with rules, regulations and referees.

It's not going to be easy, but if we ever want the sport to get accepted, it's the only way to go.
It would be great if the UFC could come over to the Netherlands and show the people how it can be done.
With normal big companies sponsoring it, with live coverage all over the world.
Bringing some big bucks to Holland at the same time.

But then again, at UFC 99 (which was pretty awesome for us Dutch guys since it was so close) the press was awful.
And the politics jumped on it, wanting to ban the sport and all you saw afterwards was the face of Struve.