UFC 100 Picks
Currently: 7-4
Lesnar, GSP, Hendo, Fitch, Belcher
The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale Predictions
Diego Sanchez-Clay Guida: Just like last event’s main event. I’m pulling for one but expecting the other to win. Nightmare by decision.
Nate Diaz-Joe Stevenson: Sure the size discrepancy is huge. But Joe Daddy’s got the tools and experience to overcome this…likely by submission.
Chris Lytle-Kevin Burns: Chris Lytle by decision. Likely Fight of the Night.
De Marques Johnson-James Wilks: I only got to watch a few episodes of TUF 9, so there is minimal basis for this one. But Johnson was kind of a likable character on the show, so I’d probably pull for him.
Ross Pearson-Andre Winner: Almost the same as Johnson-Wilks, but I saw in Sherdog that they recently fought a common opponent. Pearson got a loss, while Winner got a draw. So I’d say Winner.
Product of the Day: Rocky USB
props to: Geekologie.com
My favorite part is Apollo Creed’s facial expression, as if he is conveying the message “Look at me! I am giving birth to a massive USB device!”
Honorable mention to Clubber Lang’s expression; I think that’s how a normal person would react if they suddenly discover a two-by-four rushing down their pants.
UFC 99 Aftermath
As far as choosing the winner goes, I went 4-2 with my predictions. I got right on Cain Velasquez, Mirko Cro Cop, Mike Swick and Spencer Fisher and wrong on Marcus Davis and Wanderlei Silva.
The Franklin-Silva main event easily lived up to the billing, although there were times when both were being too tentative. Velasquez-Kongo meanwhile, was a massacre, although at least for a few seconds, Cain’s chin got severely tested. Davis-Hardy was close, and I actually thought Davis won. Fisher-Uno was boring, and Swick-Saunders also was until the flurry that led to the knockout. Finally, Cro Cop did dispatch Al-Turk easily, though with the help of an inadvertent eye poke.
The biggest story of UFC 99 though, came after the event. It turns out that Cro Cop was not intent on returning to the UFC after all, as he reneged on the verbal agreement he had with UFC President Dana White and informed him that he just signed a contract with rival Japanese promotion DREAM. This, after publicly claiming how he wants to make a run at the heavyweight championship and proving all his doubters wrong, and–according to White–talking about “honor” and those kind of stuff. This was to say the least, a ballsy move, which is amusing because Cro Cop just got one of his dislodged in his body in a his fight with Alistair Overeem.
Speaking of which, couldn’t there be any more brutal welcome encountered by a new UFC fighter than the one Mustapha Al Turk had? First, he gets ballblasted by Cheick Kongo’s knee and this eyeball got “Overeemed” by Cro Cop’s fingers. That was nasty! Next time: Ultimate Finale predictions.
UFC 99 Predictions
As promised, I’m putting up new content on this blog. Starting with this entry, one thing I want to post regularly here are my predictions for upcoming major mixed martial arts (or MMA) cards. Today’s entry is about tomorrow’s UFC 99 card. But first, I’m going to devote the next few paragraphs for those uninitiated with the sport:
To the untrained eye, MMA may look like just a bunch of shirtless men engaged in highly chauvinistic displays of manly agression, to show who’s the “better man”. But there is more to that, as the said highly chauvinistic displays of manly aggression also involves wearing index card-sized trunks and mounting one another in rather uncomprosing positions, with no irony whatsoever.
As is the tradition in similar spectacles such as boxing and professional wrestling, the ultimate goal in MMA is to win a belt. This is just as well a bit ironic, because since the participants have been lugging themselves in the ring in only their trunks, there seems to be a pressing need for them to fight for a more practical article of clothing, like a shirt. But this tradition has been upheld for years without question. So let’s just be thankful that the people who came up with this idea did not end up with anything worse. It would have been awkward if, for example, they would have fought for say, a championship thong.
I just turned 24
…and just so you would not end up seeing a mutant purple frog every time you visit this blog, here instead is a picture of a baby crocodile:
Don’t worry. I’ll put more content here from now on.
A Christmas Carol
Christmas Day has just come and gone, that time of the year where every place you go is bursting with bright lights and colorful decorations, and every once in a while, the air is filled by the sounds of Christmas cheer being spread around by young little carolers, each of whom is singing a different rendition of the same song, as in the case of Jingle Bells, which according to one caroler who went by our house recently, goes as follows:
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
Oh whop pine, it is to write in a wonder sofa’s lay, HEY!
“We don’t have money to buy Song Hits!” That’s the traditional Yuletide message that the carolers want to give to the people they sing to. Ultimately, this message easily comes across, as the carolers do get money to buy a Christmas song book, making them get the lyrics of Jingle Bells finally right, which in turn, allows them to move on to more complex Christmas tunes (“Joy to the world, Dolor is gone; Let Earth receive Berting!“).
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War on Hoofed Mammals Update
NATO airstrike “accidentally” destroys a flock of sheep
“KABUL, December 4 (RIA Novosti) – NATO aircraft killed a flock of sheep in the Afghan province of Laghman, in a botched attack on Taliban gunmen, according to sources in the governor’s office.
Provincial police say the incident occurred on Wednesday night near the town of Mehtar Lam. Shots fired from NATO helicopters killed over 200 sheep belonging to local shepherds.”
“We thought they were Taliban in sheep’s clothing,” could have been a good excuse.
In other ungulate-related news:
Camels found wandering in Mexican border city
“Police tried lassoing the animals, which lunged at the officers with snapping teeth…”
Also:
Oh deer! Wild complaint made against pizza shop
“An Allentown pizzeria may be in hot water after a city health inspector caught an employee butchering a deer in the shop’s kitchen Tuesday afternoon.”
“A day after health officials removed the carcass, the pizza shop’s manager said it was a huge misunderstanding.”
“‘We thought they were Taliban in deer’s clothing,’ the manager said” I think!
Call of Triple Duty
The San Beda Red Lions and Letran Knights booked their tickets to the PCC Final Four yesterday, when they trounced the Arellano University Chiefs and Far Eastern University Tamaraws in their respective Elite Eight match-ups. The Letran-FEU tiff was only decided by one point, with a final score of 94-93, thanks to a crucial 3-pointer by Kojack Melegrito in the dying seconds of the game. Meanwhile, Arellano seemed poised to give San Beda an upset in the early goings of the game, due mostly to Orlando Daroya, only to succumb to the NCAA champions to the tune of 87-72.
So what we have left for the PCC is a UAAP-NCAA affair. More than that however, is that we actually have a retro-NCAA Final Four that involves four of the most historic basketball rivalries in the Philippines, namely: La Salle-Letran, Letran-San Beda, San Beda-Ateneo, and of course, Ateneo-La Salle. How cool is that? Anyway, whatever happens in the Final Four match-ups, Monday’s 3rd place and championship games will bear witness to two of these rivalries being relived, as each of the final four teams is coincidentally in the opposite bracket as the two teams it shared a major rivalry with. Ateneo takes on Letran, while San Beda takes on La Salle in tomorrow’s games.
Personally, I am hoping for an Ateneo-San Beda final match-up in the finals. The UAAP champion versus the the NCAA champion, which is just what the organizers have been hoping for ever since the inception of this national championship. That would also mean we’d have a La Salle-Letran 3rd place playoff, which would effectively turn Monday’s games into a UAAP vs. NCAA affair. Actually, I’m kind of liking the war of attrition between the UAAP and NCAA in this year’s championships so far. NCAA runner-up Jose Rizal University got upset in the first round by UAAP 3rd placer FEU, only to be avenged by NCAA rival Letran. Anyway, if Monday’s games do take the UAAP vs. NCAA route, it wouldn’t surprise me then if we’d see Ateneo fans cheering for La Salle, and vice-versa, with San Beda and Letran fans doing the same for each other.
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