>> ^pho3n1x:

Wouldn't the saber have disengaged completely as soon as he let go? ( nerdalert)
I also upvoted simply for the comedy value of the repeated pokes at the end.


Depends, the sabre throw has featured prominently in Star Wars tending to lean towards a toggle-able sword rather than a dead man switch.


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>> ^pho3n1x:

Wouldn't the saber have disengaged completely as soon as he let go? ( nerdalert)
I also upvoted simply for the comedy value of the repeated pokes at the end.


Depends on whether he used a switch-activated lightsaber (ala Obi-Wan Ep IV for example) or a button-activated lightsaber (ala Anakin from the prequels).

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>> ^mxxcon:

Do black people watch Star Wars?


Judging on how he held the lightsaber, I'm going with no.

>> ^residue:

That punch looked really...real at the start. I think green shirt actually punched him


I was believing it up to that point. After that it looked a little staged, but when the light sabers came out I knew this shit was fo-real.

I wasn't going to upvote, but poking him at the end changed my mind.

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>> ^ant:

geek parody comedy scifi


I'm removing these channels because they ruin the surprise!

>> ^Zyrxil:

That can't be the official narrator for this when it airs in the UK...can it? It's gotta be just some guy dubbing it intentionally using a weird butler stereotype voice.


It can and it is!
It's Stuart Hall, he used to voice "It's a Knockout", in the '70s and '80s, in the same style.

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>> ^Ryjkyj:

Only Spider Silva could be in a knockout video and not hit anyone or get hit.


He lands 3x in this video: 2 punches on Forrest Griffin and that really bizarre elbow to Tony Fryklund.

Only Spider Silva could be in a knockout video and not hit anyone or get hit.

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I was just revisiting some of my videos and decided to do some research about this debate.

First, from a medical standpoint, basketball and baseball are considered contact sports as contact can and does occur. Boxing, MMA, NFL, etc are known as collision sports, where players impacting each other or the ground is a goal rather than incidental.

If you look at this report by Johns Hopkins University, they indicate 69 of the 171 matches in their sample set ended with injuries: 40%. That seems high until you look at the next page and see that 46 of those 69 injuries (48%) were cuts. In most cases, cuts just need time to heal and have no long-term effect save perhaps some scarring. If we take those out, we're left with 13% of the matches ending with injuries that have potential to be serious. There has been one death in sanctioned MMA but it was after the release of this study so it's not reflected.

Note their conclusion paragraph at the end: " Mixed Martial Arts competitions have changed dramatically since the first Ultimate Fighting Championship in 1993. The overall injury rate in MMA competitions is now similar to other combat sports, including boxing. Knockout rates are lower in MMA competitions than in boxing. This suggests a reduced risk of TBI in MMA competitions when compared to other events involving striking."

Unfortunately I can't find statistics on the NFL that can be directly compared, but here is an article talking about injuries. 60% of players report having suffered a concussion. This Wikipedia page cites statistics that the rate of direct fatalities has dropped to 4.3 per year on average from 1991-2006. I think these stats include people playing in their yards with no pads or helmets, though, so it's not easy to make a comparison to sanctioned MMA.

>> ^jwray:

MMA isn't a sport, it's a barbaric spectacle that anyone with sense wouldn't participate in. Every knockout involves brain damage.


I avoided MMA for a long time because I remembered the ads from the early days and I assumed nothing had changed. It was a pure bloodsport then: no rounds, no time limits, no gloves, no weight classes, few illegal strikes/holds.

A friend got me to watch it a few years ago and I'm glad he did. I find it's usually less brutal than a boxing match now. There's no 10-second count to see if a guy who gets fucked up will recover; if you can't defend yourself, the match is stopped immediately. The majority of fights don't end in actual knockouts. They're usually referee stoppage (TKO), a submission or they go to decision. Injury frequency is probably on par with any other contact sport (baseball, basketball, football).

I'm not trying to tell you you're wrong, because it's your opinion and you're entitled to it. But if you've never watched it because you think it's probably a brutal, nasty bloodsport (like I used to), I might suggest you give it a chance. You may find it's not what you thought.