No Holds Barred: John Perretti, Mayweather-Marquez and Belfort- Franklin Reviews, and Decline of American Civilization

Friday, 09 October 2009

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman reviews with
our senior correspondent, John Perretti (http://www.facebook.com/
johnperretti), the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez and Vitor
Belfort-Rich Franklin fights from this past Saturday, September 19,
and what they both say about boxing and mixed martial arts.

We both praise the tremendous skills which Mayweather demonstrated in
his return to the ring after a break of almost two years. But we also
lambast HBO for turning the postfight interview with him into a train
wreck which not only disrespected this world-class talent, but also
resembled something lifted from a script commonly used in the trash
heap known as pro "wrestling".

We then tie in this crude, imitative stunt to a general decades-long
decline in American culture and civilization, including music, placing
what happens in the combat sports as part of larger social, cultural,
and political trends.

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