Ok, I’m back for my second entry. A week filled with job interviews (nod and smile), housing negotiations (pray to God for help), and um well I’m sure did something else beside eat, sleep and mastermind an outline to start my own business. Wait what was that last part?
Let’s starts with a quick look at the MMA week that was and a look ahead to the weekend.
· ** Quinton “Rampage” Jackson former UFC light heavy champion needs a hug and a vacation. On Tuesday Jackson went on a “Rampage” (who was the lucky MMA writer who coined that phrase 1st) across Costa Mesa, CA including felony evasion of a police officer, reckless driving, and a hit-and-run.
All this while driving a custom monster truck with a picture of himself in fight trunks and a Mr. T chain wrapped around his neck ( man what a cool pose) plastered on the driver’s side door. I think everybody in America needs to take a personal day where they get to recklessly drive a monster truck with their face painted on it. Now that’s a stress reliever.
· - *** The UFC’s parent company Zuffa is looking again to stomp on the grave of one of its former competitors as its been reported that the company is looking to acquire the IFL for 1 million dollars ( read this like Dr. Evil, and ….than laugh at 1. Zuffa for paying that much and 2. At the IFL for now being worth so little)
I was going to write a song to express my sorrow over this story, but instead I’ll just copy/paste a post I left on some other MMA forum web page filled with nerds like me
And I quote
“Anyone else seeing the problem with Zuffa again spending a lot of money for basically a film library of old IFL fights?
This is the same exact thing they did with Pride FC instead of letting it die on its own they waste their money on buying it out and get a handful of fighters plus the copy rights to some old Pride DVDs
memo to the Fertittas brothers and D White the IFL is dead in the water, wait a few months than low ball them on the film library and pick/choose which fighters you want to pick up to fill out your UFC/WEC roster
Those 6 IFL fighters + film library does not = 1 million or anything close to that
IMO waste of time by the Zuffa LLC. Team”
· - **** Big weekend for MMA fight cards. Affliction makes its debut live on pay per view. You know Affliction the t-shirt and clothing lifestyle company, the ones with the $70 t-shirts worn by guys 18-29 years old who are probably trying to compensate for something that they feel the need to wear $70 dollar t-shirt.
Well that company partnered with Donald Trump and decided to throw a MMA show together. To be honest, it’s a great card, with the number one heavyweight in the world Fedor Emelianenko taking on former UFC champion Tim “the Manic” Sylvia in the night’s main event.
Those sneaky fellows over at the UFC believe in a free market economy and counter programmed Saturday night’s Affliction card with an event of their own free on Spike T.V.
Can you guess what’s going to happen? Hmm a country in a recession should I pay for a 39.99 for an unproven commodity on pay per view or should I watch the known leader in MMA’s free card on cable. But I’m not a business man so I guess Affliction could succeed. I will be petting my DVR and downloading Affliction fights on my lap top Sunday morning.
Viva la free MMA.
Hey Tommy what’s your opinion on that? Well I’m glad you asked.
§ Hey, why hasn’t the media been reporting about gas prices reaching a plateau, in some cases even going down? Do they only like to scare us?
§ 60 profile hits on myspace.com/ultmma yeah their kind of a big deal.
§ The Dark Knight hit theaters this weekend. Buzz around the Batman sequel centers around the late Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker. You will see a lot of entertainment headlines reading “Ledger gives Oscar worthy portrayal”, the reason he won’t win an Oscar is because the people who vote on these type of traditional award ceremonies are so out of touch with the general public that they would be caught parking their own car before they would vote for (gasp!) a comic book film or even worse a Hollywood blockbuster.
§ After the one hour pregame show that began at 7 PM est., after the player introductions, after the hall of fame players got introduced, following the ceremonial first pitch by four Yankee hall of famers. The Major League Baseball mid-summer classic actually started their game at approximately 8:45 est. Tuesday night and wrapped up 1:30 AM Wednesday morning. Am I the only one who wanted to say “hey, baseball slow down there your going too fast. Take your time with something for once.” Sarcasm.
§ Are 914 words too long for only your second blog entry?
§ My dad will be on the 9:00 PM flight to Newark, New Jersey on Friday night to attend his childhood and best friend’s funeral on Saturday morning. Steve McDonough (spell check??) was a big guy, with even a bigger heart. We need more guys like him on this earth. Homework assignment is to hug your best friend extra tight. Best of luck on your golf game up in the clouds Uncle Steve.
