From CBS Sports (which I still visit as Sportsline, for whatever reason):

CARTHAGE, Mo. — Ultimate fighting was once the sole domain of burly men who beat each other bloody in anything-goes brawls on pay-per-view TV.

But the sport often derided as “human cockfighting” is branching out.

The bare-knuckle fights are now attracting competitors as young as 6 whose parents treat the sport as casually as wrestling, Little League or soccer.

The changes were evident on a recent evening in southwest Missouri, where a team of several young boys and one girl grappled on gym mats in a converted garage.

So, with Ella turning 4 in December,  we started thinking about some sort of physical activites for her… you know, so she doesn’t start to resemble her dad in the ways of the waist. This early on, there’s not much more than just “runnin’ around the park”, but in the future there’s soccer, gymnastics, little league maybe. Or, I can lock her in the octagon and let her punch, kick, and grapple her way to fitness.