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.