‘When I think about pugilistic sports, I don’t like to see women involved in that at all’ – Stephen A. Smith finds himself in the center of controversy
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Stephen A. Smith, the famed sports analyst has come up with a very controversial statement about women’s MMA. Never shy from making tendentious comments, especially when it comes to MMA, Stephen A Smith has earned the wrath of a truckload of combat sports fans around the world, as he claimed that he didn’t want to see women involved in pugilistic sports at all.
Speaking in an episode of Black on the Air podcast with Larry Wilmore, Smith was asked about the involvement of women in sports, which has seen a meteoric rise in recent years. (In reference to Becky Hammon replacing Greg Popovich as the head coach of San Antonio Spurs)
‘I just don’t like it‘
Stephen A. Smith was quoted as saying, “First of all, I love it. I think there’s an awful lot of women who are incredibly qualified to do the jobs they’re doing. Where I jump off the bandwagon is where they try to engage physically. For example, I don’t ever want to see a woman boxing a man. I don’t want to see that. I don’t want to see a woman in the UFC fighting a man—even though there are some women out there that will kick the dude’s butt.“
He continued, “When I think about pugilistic sports, I don’t like to see women involved in that at all. I just don’t like it. I wouldn’t pass, I wouldn’t promote legislating laws to prohibit them from doing so, but I don’t want to see women punching each other in the face. I don’t want to see women fighting in the octagon and stuff like that. That’s just me.“
“I certainly, what I adamantly would be against is them fighting men. I don’t think that’s cool. I’m not a proponent of that. Plus you don’t ever want to give men a license to believe that it’s all right to be physical with a woman, to be quite honest with you. You don’t want to do that.”
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