Comments on: Dana White: UFC would embrace gay fighter

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:50:16 +0000

I think he makes a lot of sense. As for the homo-erotics of it, I kid my straight buds that are UFC fans (as am I) that the only difference between gay sex and UFC is 2 mils of Lycra – at least if you’re doing it right.

I applaud this guy, and hey I’ve thrown the “other f-bomb” a few times lately myself – regretted it, but it happens.

By: tyler

tyler — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:06:11 +0000

In reading the article, I was not surprised to hear Dana’s comments regarding a gay slur. This is how the majority of hetero men feel. Did he have an epiphany? Maybe. He seems like he’s balancing a tough act–trying to appease his young, straight male base and his burgeoning gay following.
I have had a friend who was involved in MMA for years and I would go to his practices and matches and I love it. I’m gay but I did not enjoy it for the hot studs. I love the artistry, the technique of the combatants to get a guy to the ground, the strategy, the mind games involved in the ring/octagon.
Yes, the men’s good looks help (esp George St. Pierre ) but let’s face it–sex sells in sports, whether it’s intentional or not. It helps make Dana, and MMA itself, money.

By: Curt

Curt — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:51:29 +0000

If Dana White is looking for a mma fighter who is gay I’m his man!

By: Randy

Randy — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:16:56 +0000

FACT: Dana White is actually a closet homosexual, this is why he helped found MMA tournaments to find an outlet for his repressed homosexual yearnings. How else can you express your desires with a man aside from sex but with wrestling with another man in his speedos. The next step of course is coming right around the corner, he also helped the creation of this sport: nakedkombat.com

By: Jay Original

Jay Original — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:39:09 +0000

Hey David,

You make a lot of good points. When are you coming to the west coast so we can be boyfriends?

By: David

David — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:14:29 +0000

This topic is retarded. Being gay does not effect your skills therefore should not matter. Who cares what the fans think. MMA is not getting any less popular any time soon. Anyone who doesn’t know what it’s like to be in a fight should not have the right to criticise anyone with the balls to.

By: Joe Guckin

Joe Guckin — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:15:53 +0000

How about this from a regular old-fashioned boxing match?
http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2008/11/08/the-kissing-boxer/

By: Black

Black — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:37:23 +0000

I fully believe Dana White in what he says. He has several problems but homophobia isn’t one of them, he just says really really really really stupid stuff sometimes, but don’t we all.

And combat sports like mma and boxing and others would seemingly be MOST tolerant of gays because, like Mike said, it wouldn’t put them in more dangerous situations. Its not like someone would hit a gay fighter harder than he would hit anyone else with so much money on the line in both cases.

And if that damn TUF show they have, having dudes eating each others semen and doing all of that other crazy stuff didn’t win gay fans I don’t know what else the man has to do!

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:20:05 +0000

I think it was Keith Herring who got kissed and knocked the other guy out. It was at a Pride fight in Japan.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:13:12 +0000

I would think an openly gay MMA fighter could happen before another professional sport, precisely because it’s mano-a-mano…you don’t have the team dynamic and “off-field” complications you have in other sports.

Plus, it’s kind of hard to imagine how being openly gay would put a gay fighter in any more precarious position than anyone else in a sport where virtually everything is fair play.

In baseball you could argue that a John Rocker could pitch at a gay player’s head…in MMA the whole point is to go for the head!