Supremacy MMA Will Cast a Bad Light on the Sport

On Sept. 20, the latest edition to the MMA video game scene became available to the general public. Supremacy MMA will promises to provide buyers with pure brutality as it goes old school.

As an avid video game player, I can certainly appreciate a game that has violence. I'm also an avid fan and participant in MMA, which means I have to look down upon the game.

Watch any of the videos of gameplay from Supremacy and you can see the game goes overboard when it comes to blood and bruises. Players can expect to do just about everything short of decapitation to their opponents.

Certainly video game players should be allowed to play whatever games they want, but Supremacy will turn into a lightning rod for negative media attention for the UFC.

With the UFC's deal with Fox TV, the UFC and MMA are going to be broadcast on a national level. Although this means fans, it also means more media outlets are going to attempt to degrade the sport.

This has become evident as recent anti-UFC/MMA attacks have picked up since the news broke about their TV deal. Of those, perhaps the most ridiculous is Perez Hilton's attempt to discourage fans from watching the UFC.

Hilton isn't the most scholarly source for your celebrity news but he does reach a wide range of people. Hilton wrote a "newsworthy" story about Dana White's infamous 2009 rant about Loretta Hunt.

He wrote this piece on Oct. 15 of this year.

If you need more evidence that the general media will look to associate the game with MMA, look no further than this story from The Daily Telegraph.

The fact that Jarrod Wyatt "is trained in mixed martial arts" is completely erroneous to the story at hand. Yet the title of the article is "Cage Man rips out mate's heart, eyes." As one of the comments says, "If he had been a plumber would the story be 'Plumber man kills friend?'"

The answer is no. The sport of MMA has come a long way since "the human cockfighting" days but that progress can be instantly stopped with enough negative publicity.

The average fan will know that Supremacy MMA has nothing to do with the UFC or MMA in general, but the people who want to call the sport barbaric just received more ammunition.

Supremacy MMA brands itself as an MMA game when really it's nothing more than Mortal Kombat with gloves. But that won't matter to the media outlets that continuously look for a way to take down the sport of MMA.