The title of Ray Ratto's column on cbssports.com about Nascar drivers Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards scuffle caught my eye, "Adding cage to oval -- or ice -- makes sense in this angry world" I bet that this would be about MMA somehow. Sure enough I was correct.

"MMA is taking a huge beating over the allegations that the Seth Petruzelli-Kimbo Slice fight might not have been entirely on the up-and-up. Ultimately, of course, that will end the same way, with nothing happening because the MMA audience really doesn't care that much how genuine the sport is as long as someone's getting the viscera pounded from him."

This Ray Ratto guy, just like Michael Wilbon Pramit pointed out is a complete moron.

He continues:

"So why not have an MMA ring at every event and make a little extra scratch off the boys' tempers?"

"Let Edwards and Harvick strip to their skivvies, away from the gasoline stench, and go at it under recognized MMA rules (which are actual and verifiable, despite the evidence to the contrary) in front of a crowd of high rollers and VIPs who pay for the extra event as part of their NASCAR In Your Wallet ticket."

EliteXC gave the media ammo to attack MMA's credibility. Instead of giving reasons why it was dumb for the two Nascar drivers to be fighting, Ratto brings up the Kimbo Slice fight. Why didn't he write a column about EliteXC like so many other writers did, like SI.com's Ben Fowlkes http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/ben_fowlkes/10/10/elitexc....?

Maybe because it's easier to write columns that bash MMA than giving real insight on to what happened in the Kimbo/Seth fight. Maybe because he just hates MMA. Whatever the reason, MMA is once again being put into a bad light, but now not because they say it's barbaric or human cockfighting, or because it's a bloodsport, they are now saying MMA is fake.