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White Nationalists, Skinheads Flock to Cage Fighting
Rapidly rising blood sport is wildly popular among racist
skinheads and other young extremists with a thirst for violence.
Melvin "Man-o-war" Costa has a classic Nazi eagle and swastika
insignia tattooed across his chest and a prison gang spider web inked
on his right elbow.
Costa, 26, also is a convicted felon, self-avowed white nationalist
and currently the 10th-ranked light heavyweight fighter in King of the
Cage, one of the most popular semi-professional "mixed martial arts" (MMA)
combat leagues in America. MMA is the fastest growing sport in the
country.
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Hottest Sport Around
Television ratings for its preeminent league, the Ultimate Fighting
Championship, or UFC, routinely outdraw every other sport except NFL
football among men aged 18-34.
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Neo-Nazi Training Camps
Not surprisingly, this rapidly rising blood sport is likewise
wildly popular among racist skinheads and other young extremists with
a thirst for violence. Many white supremacist online forums have
recently established discussion groups devoted specifically to MMA;
skinhead gangs across the country are raising money by hosting illegal
backyard tournaments; and retired white supremacist cage fighter Mike
Buell runs a major MMA training school in Arizona whose logo is a
Celtic cross (often used as a white supremacist symbol) and the phrase
"Hail Victory" (the German equivalent is "sieg heil").
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Jewish Writer Ponders, "Is A Swastika Appropriate?"
"A swastika, as far as I hold it true to my own, it stands for the
purity of my people's blood," Costa told leading MMA sportswriter Sam
Caplan last October. "I do believe in the purity, security, and the
survival of the white race. ... When I come down that [fighter
entrance] ramp and people see me, they know I'm white power." Costa
did clarify, however, that he considers himself a white nationalist
rather than a neo-Nazi because "[a] neo-Nazi holds Hitler's beliefs to
be true down to a T. I don't. I believe in Hitler's point of view as
far as racial consonance but I don't believe a lot of [his] things as
far as controlling the economy."
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Zionist Fight Promoter Shocked
Last Oct. 18, shortly after Costa's comments and pictures of his
tattoos were republished widely on MMA fan websites, Gary Shaw, the
live events president of the parent company that owns King of the
Cage, issued this statement: "I try not to allow anyone to fight in
the cage or the ring that has anything inappropriate either on their
gear or tattooed permanently on their body. And that means either
ethnic, or racial, or anything offensive to the general public. I was
unaware of the situation but I'm in the process of handling it now.
Hopefully, it will never happen again."
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Zionist Event Manager Has No Comment
But it did, less than two months later. Costa fought in a King of
the Cage event held last Dec. 18. For the first time, though, he lost.
Davis, for his part, did not return two E-mails seeking clarification
on his league's regulation of fighters with "inappropriate" tattoos.
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Neo Nazis Love It
Judging by online forum discussions, Costa's growing legions of
white supremacist fans seemed far less concerned with his swastika or
spider web tattoos than a third tattoo, circling his navel, that
boasts, "I have a small penis." The common theory is that, as one fan
said, "He might be going for a bit of sarcasm, depending on the actual
size of his penis, given the false stereotype about us."
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