Iowa Fighter Zach Kirk Suffers Broken Neck, Paralyzed During Fight

They hold knitting classes down at the YMCA every wed knight you ought to check it out it sounds like your kind of sport..

you make an EXCELLENT point mate.its a bloodsport.its human dog=cock fights.we have digressed to this point in civilisation and much much worse.if they were literally killing each other some would love it.

Yeah, because this has never happened in football before.................

Lets be real man. Anytime you enter a physical sport, there is always a chance of serious injury or death.Just look at baseball and how many guys get hit with pitches.

It is an unfortunate accident, but it comes with the territory.

put a dress on !

If you look at the comparison of injuries between boxing and mixed martial arts you will see that MMA is much safer. You sound like one of those old farts who call MMA human cockfighting. In boxing if your knocked down you can get back up and continue to fight if your able to hold your gloves waist level and nod your head. In MMA you can end a fight in so many different ways that are much safer then just punching somebody a million times in the head and body that causes long term damage, for ex. Ali, Frazier. Its obvious you dont know anything and probably cant defend yourself with your 13 useless years of Martial Arts training.

Maybe find another line of work, eh?

if you're willing to step in, you're taking the chance. my opinion is that true sport involves a willingness to risk injury. "bloodthirsty" spectator sports are as old as sport itself.

Maimed or killed? More? I am not aware of any MMA fighter dying. There may be one or two out there, because they are done in unregulated events or freak accidents, but nobody says we should shutdown football when players die of dehydration during training camp or are paralyzed from hitting a player wrong.

It's pretty sad that someone that considers himself a martial artist would make such an ignorant statement. Heck, maybe we should outlaw driving in a car too because people die from doing that everyday!

@john1dubya

LOL, are you insane? More KIDS are paralized each year playing high school football than adults that participate in MMA bouts. This happened during a take down, it could just as easily have happened during a judo tournament or on a wrestling mat. Get real man and stop being so over-reactive.

Digressed? I dare say we've evolved. While this is nothing more than the old Gladiator days of Rome, this is a much less dangerous activity. Just a couple of weeks ago a boxer died after a fight, it happens. Comparing to willing, paid, contestants to dog fighting or cockfightin is also a bit over the top. Talk about blood sports, what about NASCAR, it's what the fans want, good wrecks and lots of em. Or the soccer fans who like to see the occaisonal take down. All sports are prone to life threatening accidents. Even the occaisonal basketball player dies.

You should see how far the sport has come in recent years. MMA used to be very crude, people like Dana White have tried very hard to regulate this sport into a safe one. There are much more dangerous fighting sports out there like Muay Thai that are hardly regulated at all. Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts saved the sport from being doomed. Do some reading on the sport. And as a fighter yourself you should know that every time you step into a fight the risk of serious injury or death is there. More people have died in boxing than have been seriously injured by this sport.

'13 year martial artist' This sport is the mecca of martial arts.

How can you have a sport that involves different martial arts if you ban several techniques. It puts certain styles at a huge disadvantage. What would Muy Thai be if you made elbows illegal? What would a BJJ artist do if you made armbars illegal due to a few dislocated elbows?

There has not been a single death in a sanctioned MMA match, however, there has been several deaths in boxing. The 4oz gloves are actually safer than the repeated blows of a 10oz gloves and a standing 8 count.

Being a martial arts expert do you consider MMA martial arts?

Please. Injuries and deaths happen just like this happen in "safer" sports like wresting and football. You're spouting biased nonsense.

Your opinions are uneducated and baseless.

First, it is a safe sport. While there are injuries in all sports most in MMA are not significant! You sure dont sound like an MMA vet. You sound like a member of PETA or on of these bleeding heart whining lib groups!

martial artist??? you are so ignorant. grow up and support the sport like the rest of the fighting world.

dude self defense is not mma. so stop that point right there. what other rules are there to make. its because of the current rules that there isn't serious injuries. you said it yourself that you are surprised that there aren't more injuries or death. so i think the rules are working just fine. so shut your mouth. and your point on the cock fighting=dog fighting. last time i checked you can choose your opponent and choose if you want to fight. dogs and the cocks don't choose. so your analogy is stupid and irrelevant so next time you comment save us some brain cells and don't.

this was a freak accident and he went in for the take down and it just so happens that the opponent and him fell on his head.