MMA Bukan Olahraga? Bagaimana Pendapat Anda?

Ketua Persatuan Judo Eropa Sergey Soloveychick pernah menyatakan bahwa Mixed martial arts atau seni bela diri campuran bukanlah olahraga karena memberikan contoh yang buruk kepada anak-anak dan tidak memiliki nilai-nilai kemanusiaan. Menurutnya, olahraga harus memiliki nilai-nilai kemanusiaan dan mendorong masyarakat membangun nilai-nilai kemanusiaan.

Mungkin saja dia 'benar', tapi dia melupakan fakta bahwa MMA adalah campuran delapan cabang olahraga bela diri, yang enam di antaranya dipertandingkan di Olimpiade. Bagaimana mungkin gabungan bermacam style bela diri ini dianggap bukan olahraga?

"MMA is not a sport, it is some kind of show," said European Judo Union president Sergey Soloveychick. "Sport should have some human values and sports should help society develop human values. With MMA, it is not so. "He added: "It's not good if your opponent is on his stomach and you sit on him and beat his head.

"It's not good for the education of the young generation, so we don't like to promote this kind of organisation during our competition. The spirit is to destroy your opponents by different ways and this is not good."

Bagaimana menurut anda?