{"id":216659,"date":"2017-01-09T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=216659"},"modified":"2017-01-09T10:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T18:06:04","slug":"mma-community-reacts-meryl-streep-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/josh-barnett\/mma-community-reacts-meryl-streep-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA community reacts to anti-MMA comment in Meryl Streep speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most buzz-worthy moment of Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony was a Meryl Streep speech that criticized not only Donald Trump<\/a> and the sport of football, but also threw a subtle jab at mixed martial arts.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWho are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? It\u2019s just a bunch of people from other places,\u201d Streep said after she was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. \u201cSo, Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out, we\u2019ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given that the Golden Globes draw in something in the area of 20 million viewers annually, it’s not surprising that this speech quickly began generating responses from the MMA community. While the majority of these responses came from passionate fight fans, a number of others also came from top fighters and MMA personalities, ranging from former UFC heavyweight champ Josh Barnett, to reporters Megan Olivi and Ariel Helwani to, Bellator MMA President Scott Coker.<\/p>\n

Check out some of the best of these responses below:<\/p>\n

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Disagree about the arts but otherwise a lovely speech… https:\/\/t.co\/wYNEJ4WqTF<\/a><\/p>\n

— Zachary Makovsky (@ZachFunSize) January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n