Ultimate fights expand to include kids

[flashl]

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Ultimate fighting was once the sole domain of burly men who beat each other bloody in anything-goes brawls on pay-per-view TV.

But the sport often derided as "human cockfighting" is branching out.

The bare-knuckle fights are now attracting competitors as young as 6 whose parents treat the sport as casually as wrestling, Little League or soccer.

The changes were evident on a recent evening in southwest Missouri, where a team of several young boys and one girl grappled on gym mats in a converted garage.

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Supporters of the sport acknowledge that allowing fights between kids sounds brutal at first. But they insist the competitions have plenty of safety rules.

Yahoo

[patrice]

1. Not good.

Some people should never be parents. Let me guess what proportion are so-called "Pro-Life".

Sometimes I really do believe we live in "the End Times" in the Nietzsche-ian sense of "the Ultimate(final) Man".

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Cue the...

"What has 19 teeth and.." jokes about these people. And rightfully so.

[CRF450]

3. As much as I enjoy watching the UFC, kids shouldn't be doing this!