No Holds Barred: John Perretti on Cyborg-Carano, Fighter Safety in MMA, and More

Sunday, 20 September 2009

No Holds Barred: John Perretti on Cyborg-Carano, Fighter Safety in
MMA, and More

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again
speaks with the legendary former UFC and Extreme Fighting matchmaker,
promoter, announcer, and martial artist, and our senior correspondent
on this show, John Perretti (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?
id=1495617913).

In a landmark discussion, a critical look at the level of technique in
the Cris "Cyborg" Santos-Gina Carano mixed martial arts fight on the
August 15 Strikeforce card is offered. Cyborg dominated that fight and
scored a TKO victory at 4:59 of the first round.

But there are deeper issues as well, as John explains what the role of
a matchmaker should be, both in evaluating fighters and finding new
ones. We discuss what happens to fighters as they age, both in mixed
martial arts and boxing, and the effect on them of the accumulation of
blows.

We also reopen a longstanding controversy by revisiting the question
of which sport is safer for its fighters, mixed martial arts or
boxing. Most people in mixed martial arts have long argued that it is
safer than boxing, but changes in both the technique and matchmaking
in mixed martial arts have led to many changes in that sport. The
current opinion of John Perretti, a pioneer in mixed martial arts who
in both Extreme Fighting and later in the UFC came up with the basic
structure of modern mixed martial arts, might surprise many people.

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