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Bloomberg.com's Kristen Haunss reported today about slick Wall Street types taking part in a mixed martial arts Fight Club scene at Manhattan's Renzo Gracie Academy.

"We get a lot of finance guys," says RGAA's program director Max McGarr. "It's a good release from their job. If you lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, it's good to come here and get it out." Richard Byrne, CEO of Deutsche Bank Securities who practices jiu-jitsu and sparring at the club, calls it "a great stress reliever...talk about a great way to get aggression out, and it's an unbelievable workout."

Mixed martial arts is described as "a contact sport combining aspects of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, grappling, ground fighting, muay thai and other techniques."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 3, 2010 at 8:41 PM

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Noiresque says ...

Poor widdle traders, losing $100000 and requiring to exercise out the angst caused by the predicament as a cog in the machine of a consumerist society!

Now, I could actually get behind such a club is if the client whose $100000 was lost would be invited to the pit to take on said trader, mano-a-mano.

Posted by Noiresque at February 3, 2010 9:42 PM

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Posted by DeeZee at February 3, 2010 11:07 PM

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DeeZee says ...

Guess which reviewer is the plant. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43869

Posted by DeeZee at February 3, 2010 11:15 PM

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Home Business says ...

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Posted by Home Business at February 3, 2010 11:17 PM

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The Winchester says ...

Those idiots, don't they remember the first rule is you don't talk about it.

It's also the second rule. Jerks.

Posted by The Winchester at February 3, 2010 11:54 PM

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econeywaaa says ...

There are 12 year olds in my neighborhood (South Boston) that could kick any one of those idiot's asses.

Posted by econeywaaa at February 4, 2010 4:58 AM

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MikeSchaeferSF says ...

MMA is The. Gayest. Sport. Ever. And the young hetero guys who roll around half-naked on the floor with each other in MMA are shocked --shocked! -- when you say that out loud.

Posted by MikeSchaeferSF at February 4, 2010 7:50 AM

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Rob says ...

To borrow a line from 30 Rock, I'll bet these guys work at the firm of Date Rape, Cokington, Cheeseball & Jag.

Posted by Rob at February 4, 2010 8:12 AM

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lipranzer says ...

And so it came to pass that FIGHT CLUB joined the club of Movies Celebrated By The Very People Whose Behavior It Was Trying To Critique (see also: THE GODFATHER, WALL STREET, GLENGARRY GLENN ROSS).

Posted by lipranzer at February 4, 2010 8:54 AM

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BurmaShave says ...

MikeSchaefer, it's so true. I played a UFC video game with a guy once and after getting fairly pissed at my suggestion that it was extremely gay he was giving me pointers along the lines of "Alright, you've gotta get the dude on the ground, then put him in a hold and rock back and forth"

Posted by BurmaShave at February 4, 2010 9:43 AM

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MilkMan says ...

The movie these twats should be emulating, for the good of the country, for the good of humanity, is THE DEER HUNTER.

Posted by MilkMan at February 4, 2010 11:03 AM

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kamichojin says ...

"Nice. What part of " Didi Mow!" didn't you understand?"

Posted by kamichojin at February 4, 2010 3:39 PM

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juju says ...

[Deleted, banned for life.] (For copying DZ's and Home Businessesessesses' posts)

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DeeZee says ...

lip: Well, it's ironic that Fincher cast celebrities who are an off-shoot of our corporate culture into his film, and that he worked with a major corporation which managed to cash in on people who hate "the Man". Though Fight Club lost its impact after Button, anyway. Meanwhile, Salinger was now just discovered to be a phony, too.
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_14334393?source=rss
Reminds me of a little Weird Al gem from a while back. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/132035

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