PART A: LET FANS DECIDE IT

Our controversy about our recent cable TV pay-per-viewer event should be distilled into two issues: Is this
indeed a sport? And should the government spend taxpayer money to dictate the conduct of willing
participants and willing buyers?

First, the martial arts have captured young Americans’ imagination. They have matured in popularity, and
fans want to see competitions between highly skilled athletes of different disciplines.

The fact is if you combine the techniques of Greco-Roman wrestling, taekwondo, judo, and free-style
wrestling and boxing, all Olympic sports, you have the very definition of extreme fighting.

The argument that the bare-knuckle element of our sport is dangerous has little validity. Gloves do more to
protect fighters’ hands than their heads.

Repeated blows to the head cause lasting damage to boxers, not the small number landed by our fighters.
They’re more concerned about breaking their hands than damaging their opponents’ harder skulls.

Ill-informed critics content that our more barbaric act is allowing fighters to win by choke-out, yet this a
technique allowed in both college and Olympic judo. Although much is made of the possibility of death or
severe injury, the only injuries experienced in our nine contests were minor cuts, bruises and broken nose. In
the ninety-year history of this sport in Brazil, not one fatality has occurred. Our fighters are highly-trained
athletes exercising their freedom to pursue their skill, indeed, art.

No one forces customers to buy the show. If there were no audience, these event wouldn’t take place.

Then there’s the politicians’ argument that the innocent need to be protected from what they shouldn’t see.
Well we believe adults are capable of deciding for themselves how they wish to spend their entertainment
dollars. There are no unwitting children accidentally tuning in at $19.95.

If we let the government decide what sporting event professional athletes can participate in or citizens can
watch, why not what magazines or books you can read. These are First Amendment Rights we hold dear.

It is time for the government to stop spending taxpayer money to legislate /ˈledʒɪsleɪt/ morality /məˈræləti/.
It is certainly someone’s right to not like our show and even to deplore it, but not to deplore our right to do
it.

PART B:
1. Nhiều người phản đối môn thể thao này vi tin rằng các lực sĩ đánh nhau bằng tay không có thể gây tổn
thương nặng, làm chết đối thủ.
2. Nhiều phụ huynh lập luận rằng những môn thể thao có tính bạo lực phải bị loại ra tất cả các chương trình
truyền hình vì sợ rằng con cái của họ có thể bị ảnh hưởng bởi những gì chúng thấy trên màn ảnh.
3. Các lực sĩ thuộc các bộ môn khác nhau từ khắp nơi trên đất nước đổ về đây để tranh tài thể thao kéo dài
trong 3 ngày.
4. Những chiến thắng vang dội của bộ đội làm cho thế giới thích thú và khâm phục mặc dù địch đông hơn và
có vũ khí hiện đại hơn.
5. Cuộc tranh luận có thể chốt thành hai điểm.