Do the Octagon girls really add anything to UFC events?
Fowlkes: Look, I like attractive women as much as anyone, particularly attractive women in bikinis. But something about the attention lavished on the “Octagon girls” makes me feel, I don’t know, disappointed. It’s like when you go to a strip club and you see some girl looking at you like you’re just a walking credit card payment. That’s when you realize that you’re the mark in this con game. It feels bad, or at least it does if you have a voice inside your head that’s capable of saying anything other than ‘Look, boobs!’ Ring girls are the same way. They seem like something a marketing study came up with. Men like fighting. Men like women. Let’s put them together and the rabble will be pleased. It doesn’t help that the Octagon girls look so generically hot, like something a computer came up with after studying MTV for a day. They blow a kiss to the camera, do their little wave and bat their eyes, and I die a little inside. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be there. I’m just saying that the
