Strikeforce Fighters Team Up To End Bullying

The host of MTV’s “Bully Beatdown” show, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, has partnered with the “We’re Kickin’It” campaign to send the message out to children that “Bullying is not OK.” He’s also recruited Strikeforce fighters middleweight Scott Smith and heavyweight Daniel Cormier to help out.

All three fighters talked with Yahoo! Sports about they wanted to get involved to stop bullying.

For Miller, standing up to bullying and helping kids is the goal, not the by-product, of his fame.

“I work in my life not just for monetary rewards. I want fame so at some level I can influence change. I don’t look at it just as, ‘Oh, I want to be famous so I can hump girls.’ I want to exert my influence in a good way.”

Smith doesn’t see a disconnect between what he does in the cage and a message against violence.

“Fighters are the exact opposite [of violent]. They’re disciplined. We got into martial arts to learn how to defend ourselves. I’m the part owner of a gym, and the guys that come into learn how to fight so they can beat people up in bars? Those are the first guys to get weeded out. You’ve got to be disciplined to be a mixed martial artist.”

“You don’t know how to defend yourself as a kid,” Cormier added. “You have to learn it. I didn’t know how to defend myself as a kid until I learned how to wrestle. I finally figured out that when I wrestle, I win some, lose some, but if I can go out there and wrestle, why can’t I stand up to some guy who is bullying me?”

The host of MTV’s “Bully Beatdown” show, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, has partnered with the “We’re Kickin’It” campaign to send the message out to children that “Bullying is not OK.” He’s also recruited Strikeforce fighters middleweight Scott Smith and heavyweight Daniel Cormier to help out. All three fighters talked with Yahoo! Sports about they wanted [...]

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