Who thought the UFC's battle to get into New York would come to this? The Culinary Union in New York and gossip guru Perez Hilton are lashing out at the fight promotion claiming it's anti-gay.
The mixed martial arts fighting promotion is still unable to get fights licensed in New York. Owner Lorenzo Fertitta and president Dana White haven't hidden their feelings about the real culprit in the battle. Both have pointed the finger of blame at the state's powerful Culinary Union.
Last week in a letter to Anheuser-Busch, the union fired back saying the UFC allows homophobic behavior from it fighters and personalities.
- In recent videos, UFC light heavyweight Quinton "Rampage" Jackson repeatedly urged Japanese fans to repeat an anti-gay slur.' The fans, who do not appear to understand English, repeated the anti-gay slur at Jackson's urging. In one video, Jackson instructed a Japanese man to say, "Goodbye, I want you to piss on my face."
- In an expletive-filled video rant posted on YouTube.com, UFC president Dana White used an anti-gay slur, saying, "Whoever gave you that quote is a [expletive] and a [expletive] faggot and a [expletive] liar and everything else. He also uttered the "F" word a total of 34 times, the "S" word 4 times, and referred to a female sports journalist as a "[expletive] dumb bitch."
- According to the Los Angeles Times, "Rampage" Jackson shouted "every conceivable gay slur" at a movie crew member of "The A-Team" who had called him a homophobic epithet. He was also quoted in the article saying, "Acting is kind of gay. It makes you soft."
- In a recent UFC promotional video, Michael Bisping, a UFC middleweight fighter and coach on the reality television show "The Ultimate Fighter," screamed an anti-gay slur at his opponent. In a media conference call, Bisping tried to. smear an opposing-coach. on "The Ultimate Fighter" by saying that his opponent had a "gay chiropractor" on his staff."
- Joe Rogan, who does commentary for televised UFC events, recently used a homophobic slur while referring to a MMA blogger.' Rogan also to referred to an MMA blogger as a part of the female anatomy. According to sportswriter Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports, Rogan then wrote on a blog, "Never did I imagine that so many people would get their panties in a bunch about the use of the word [expletive] to describe a female blogger."
Now Hilton, the openly-gay blogger, is firing shots at the promotion.
Ugh! We are not happy to hear about this. While sports organizations like the NBA and MLB are working to end homophobia, others like the NHL seem to be tolerating it. Unfortunately, the UFC (Utlimate Fighting Championship) seems to be flat out endorsing anti-gay bigotry!
Some of these incidents go back a few years, so it looks like the Culinary Union waited for an opportune time to go on the attack. It just so happens that the UFC is debuting on network television in less than a month on Fox.
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