FOLLOWING the serious injuries sustained by a young mixed martial arts fighter during an event held at the Convention Centre on Friday, Coun. Ric Nordman compared mixed martial arts fighting to cockfighting and dogfighting and said its only fans are "ghouls." That sparked a debate about whether this sport should be permitted and many people appear to agree that it should be banned. It is neither an entertainment nor a sport, they argue, merely an exercise in bloody brutality, as the face of Dean Lewis, the 18-year-old fighter hurt last week, attests.