I watched her fights and interviews and discovered that the sport’s participants were not only respectful but enormously disciplined. Leaving aside the fact that I had an outrageous crush on her for the following 10 months (my poor wife…), I had inadvertently found a new interest. Learning More About Women’s MMA & Gina Carano Being rather gentle on the eye didn’t hinder my interest any either! So I looked her up. There were stunts on top of that, and so I assumed she was a stunt-performer-turned-actor. Not only that, but she was also doing this so convincingly that I never found myself having to suspend disbelief. Thirty minutes into it and I was thinking “Who is this mad yoke running across Dublin’s rooftops, kicking seven shades out of anything that even looks like it has a penis?!”.
I took a trip with my wife to the cinema and wanted to see the latest Soderbergh movie. I watched a lot of football (soccer), and some tennis – and had an admiration for the ladies’ game for the latter (rallies, anyone?). My forays into combat sports coincided with the Olympics, when, to my credit, I cheered for man and woman alike in Boxing, and hooted along with the more knowledgeable when success came.
In December 2011, I knew what “Cagefighting” was, and had a typically negative attitude towards it – typical for someone who was ignorant and wished to remain so. Those who have other concerns I can forgive more easily, as they come from a good heart or perhaps having an upbringing in a conservative environment. Oh, I’m not easy to get a rise out of – and so such opinions (as entitled to them as they are) simply get blanked by me. The oft-opined maxim of the knuckle-dragging misogynist, and when it comes to women fighters, it’s the only one that makes me seethe.
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