Joe Buck is a seasoned broadcaster. Royce Gracie has plenty of media appearances under his belt. So we may never know why Buck felt the need to ask Gracie, last week on Buck’s talk show ‘Undeniable,’ what he thought of women’s MMA. It was a strangely tone-deaf question.
And we have to wonder why Gracie followed up with an equally tone-deaf answer, saying he prefers women to be “feminine” and doesn’t want to get “beat up” when he gets home.
Let’s get this out of the way first: Relax. This isn’t going to be a strident tirade insisting that everyone who doesn’t watch every WNBA broadcast and didn’t buy the Holly Holm-Germaine de Randamie fight is a sexist pig who needs to spend a month at a sensitivity workshop.