Attention All MMA Fans: Watch out for Bloodied Up MMA Gloves From Fighters

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I just realized this while watching Pride: Total Elimination Absolute, after the fight between Josh Barnett and Aleksander Emelianenko.

I’m surprised I didn’t notice earlier with previous MMA fights, but isn’t it a little unhygienic for fighters to give high fives to fans after the fight?

For example, during the fight with Barnett and Aleksander Emelianenko, blood was spilled by both fighters, and chances are, some of that blood will end up on each other’s hands and MMA gloves.

Also, if you watch the end of the fight right the arm lock finisher, Barnett wipes the blood off of Aleksander Emelianenko’s mouth with his hands!  So there was blood on Barnett’s hands for sure.

As Josh Barnett was leaving the ring you could see him giving high fives to some of the fans.

Now, I could be wrong, and somehow, off camera, they somehow wash their hands right after the match in the ring.

But if they don’t, all that blood (along with probably a mix of both fighter’s sweat, saliva and boogers) can potentially get passed along to the crowd while fighters gives everyone high-5’s…and to take it even further, those fans can potentially pass the “yuckiness” to other people around then, and they could end up rubbing their eyes, putting their fingers in their mouth and getting some of it into their system.

I’m sure they do some sort of pre-fight blood testing to make sure fighters don’t have any STD’s or anything, but still, pretty nasty when you think about it.