While the job of a UFC fighter is to “take down” an opponent, FBI agents are trained to gauge a situation and “use a minimum amount of force to subdue a person so they are no longer a threat to the agents or themselves,” he said.
“Part of the nuance of the job is talking to a person so things don’t get out of hand,” said Massey, who now runs a crisis management firm called Convincing Company. “What the UFC does is a gladiator-style spectacle with bare-knuckle brawling. That’s not how we are trained.”
The FBI did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment on that criticism.
Jody Weis, a former FBI agent and Chicago Police Department superintendent, said he too was taken aback by the idea at first. But he said he sees the benefit of FBI agents’ learning some of the mixed martial arts skills that UFC fighters are
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