Oregon press critical:"Someone will die in Octagon

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Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:45 am EDT


UFC 102 react: Oregon columnist says someone will die in the Octagon some day


By Steve Cofield

We told you it was coming on Friday. Another newspaper columnist "forced" to cover the ever growing phenomenon of mixed martial arts who didn't want to be there. John Canzano from the Oregonian told us in his Friday column that he didn't like the sport because it lacked social value. That said, he was going to cover the event with "an open mind" and "an open notebook." We told you that was a farce. As soon as the most vicious fight of the night Gabriel Gonzaga-Chris Tuchscherer featured a nasty low blow and a beating, we Tweeted that it would be a centerpiece for Canzano's story:


After the fight, Canzano made sure to run to the bowels of Rose Garden Arena to find Tuchscherer and miss the majority of the pay-per-view card which included a main event featuring native Oregonian Randy Couture in what almost became a triumphant return to the pleasure of thousands of his fans. A heroic effort for a guy who is still trying to grow as a fighter at an amazing 46-years-old. Not one single word of Couture or the winner Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, one of the real gentlemen of the sport, was mentioned in the state's biggest paper by one its most prominent columnists.


Nor was Nate Marquardt's rousing win over Demian Maia or Thiago Silva's comeback win over Keith Jardine after a terrible loss to Lyoto Machida. Also left out was three-time NCAA wrestling champ Jake Rosholt surprising many to upset UFC veteran Chris Leben. There's probably a great column waiting to be done on Leben, another Oregon native, who may still be dealing with the demons that have haunted him over the years. But instead of tracking down Leben, Canzano chose to roll out the typical scare tactics:



Someone is going to die in the Octagon someday. We're headed straight there, and anyone who saw the damaging blows to the brains on Saturday, including UFC head Dana White, can't ever say they didn't see it coming.



He made sure to focus on Tuchscherer spitting up blood after the low blow and that he got bloodied in the loss. It was eerily similar to the initial column when the only MMA memory he brought up on Friday was a sensational story about some dude pulled from the crowd to fight who vomited in the middle of the cage.


Oh wait, he did speak to Todd Duffee, who set a UFC record for quickest KO ever at seven seconds. But the only quote he used in the story from Duffee suggested fighters are underpaid. Why write about Duffee's rise from failed football star at Southern Illinois to UFC hot prospect status at age 23?


No one is angry at Canzano but just like T.J. Simers of the L.A. Times, stop telling us you're going to the event with an open mind when you know you're not. Okay, it's not the guy's cup of tea. It's clear he abhors violence while suggesting MMA fans thirst for it, we can accept that. He judges the sport on its worst moments, the rest of us don't. We see the complete package.


 


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hes from a bullshit liberal state.. and he works for the press.. fuck him..

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i didnt read the article but so the f what if some one dies in there doing what they love some day. people die in sports all the time, it is just part of the game.

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Marion Cobretti - hes from a bullshit liberal state.. and he works for the press.. fuck him..



John Canzano=douche

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maybe Canzano should do stories on concussions from Oregon Duck Football to get some damn perspective.

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 Liberal press in Oregon not liking MMA, what a shock

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And they dont say one word about the consideration for his opponents safety that Marquardt showed?

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voorhees - And they dont say one word about the consideration for his opponents safety that Marquardt showed?


 That's how the media works these days, journalism died a long time ago.

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LMAO @ U dumbasses saying Canzano is liberal, he is as conservative as writers in from OR come

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 ^the Oregonian is notorious for being a liberal paper no?

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Jesus fucking Christ people, what is it with the inane liberal-bashing? That has NOTHING to do with anti-MMA press coverage. Tons of people hate MMA, and plenty of them are conservatives.

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As someone who's from oregon and reads his columns and listens to his radio show at times I can say that Canzano is the proverbial wet blanket for everything involving sports.    It didn't matter what happened last night, he'd find a way to bash the event.   He always seems to take the negative side of a story



And LOL at making it seem like a liberal paper would hate MMA more then a conservative one

 

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 he's a spineless liberal worm from liberal headquarters.



to put the cherry on top he works for a super-liberal newspaper.



what do you expect? anyone actually surprised?

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 It's human cockfighting.  That's what it is.

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atrocityexhibit - Jesus fucking Christ people, what is it with the inane liberal-bashing? That has NOTHING to do with anti-MMA press coverage. Tons of people hate MMA, and plenty of them are conservatives.


No shit.

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He's right! And some day someone will die on the football field, the soccer pitch...

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Eventually all these old retarded hacks will die of liver disease and we won't have to hear this shit anymore

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Marion Cobretti - hes from a bullshit liberal state.. and he works for the press.. fuck him..

being liberal has nothing to do with it. why do fuckers like to say this side said this and that side said that. why don't you talk about how those piece of shit republicans started all of this with Mccain's witch hunt. how about the fact that Bill O'reilly talks mad shit about MMA. i'm not a liberal or a conservative. i say fuck both of 'em. but don't just blame liberals. blame both if you wanna insert political views.

"They are the disease, I am the cure."

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They do that because their brains can't handle complex ideas like someone being able to disagree with them on one thing and agree with them on another.

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mexican jujitsu - Marion Cobretti - hes from a bullshit liberal state.. and he works for the press.. fuck him..



being liberal has nothing to do with it. why do fuckers like to say this side said this and that side said that. why don't you talk about how those piece of shit republicans started all of this with Mccain's witch hunt. how about the fact that Bill O'reilly talks mad shit about MMA. i'm not a liberal or a conservative. i say fuck both of 'em. but don't just blame liberals. blame both if you wanna insert political views.



"They are the disease, I am the cure."
I watch O'reilly regularly, when has he talked mad shit about MMA??  From what I know, he clearly doesn't have a dog in the fight and he's never went after the sport.  He did a report on the sport once and it was in regards to kids competing in MMA and their safety concerns.  If you have proof that O'Reilly is trashing MMA please provide a source.