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After six weeks of sweat and toil in a bid to become a ‘mixed martial artist’, it took a plainly uncomfortable promoter to state the obvious. ‘Not wishing to be disrespectful, but the guy has got no arms’. In permitting Mat Fraser to enter the cage, there was no alternative, therefore, but to tilt the balance in his favour.
So what exactly did the whole exercise prove? Andrew Healey, who lives with a disability, looks at some of the issues raised by Unarmed and Dangerous and questions Mat’s motives in making the film.