The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White stated "this is not the Ultimate Starring Competition" after releasing Gerald Harris. Harris was released after losing at UFC 123 in Michigan. However, he did not have a losing streak that usually results in a release from the UFC. See http://mmafightingwords.blogspot.com/2010/11/ufc-releases-gerald-harris-after-loss.html
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Here is a short preview of the action on the HBO TV Series Spartacus - Blood And Sand. The plot becomes complex over time involving alliances and betrayal in the Roman Empire including the gladiators, other slaves, citizens, the rich Patrician class, and other government officials. The prequel, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is premiers on January 21, 2011.
Yet they also erroneously provide some legislators the arguments to ban mixed martial arts (MMA) in their jurisdiction. In an earlier article we posted, New York Assemblyman Reilly was quoted as voting against MMA in NY because he thought fights were to the death and because it encourages kids to be violent. Reilly must think watching the news on real wars or violent movies makes viewers like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi.
"For the most part, concerns about violence have been directed at the potential effects that the largely, but not exclusively, American-produced cartoons (e.g. Power Rangers), movies (e.g. Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction), dramas and real life programs (e.g. Cops) have on audiences, especially children."
See Jackson, Steven J., & Andrews, David. (2004). "Aggressive Marketing: Interrogating the Use of Violence in Sport-Related Advertising" in Sports Marketing and the Psychology of Marketing Communication. LEA Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey. Studies done in Sienna, Italy have shown that the rate of violent crime falls drastically in the weeks after the famous horse race in which riders can knock each other off horses.
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