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- bigWOWO: No worries. I feel the same way. Nothing against her, but just doubtful.
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I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
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I wouldn’t say...
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Tag Archives: MMA
BJ Penn loses lightweight title
(pic from here)
Reading the blogosphere about the UFC this past weekend, it looks like I was somewhat right and somewhat wrong in my predictions. I correctly predicted Matt Hughes would win, though I wish it had been otherwise. From what I’m reading (I didn’t see and I won’t bother seeing the fight), Silva could have beaten Maia in the first round, but instead spent time clowning around and disgracing the sport. So I’ll consider my Silva prediction somewhat correct. The shocker, however, was the fight between Penn and Edgar, which Edgar won by unanimous decision. I was certain Penn was going to completely dominate. Oi. We now have one less Asian American MMA champion!
Envy and Condemnation
Kenny Florian from USA Today
Takanori Gomi lost by rear naked choke to Kenny Florian on Spike TV last night. I wanted to see him fight, although I knew he was somewhat past his prime. I didn’t realize exactly how past his prime he was.
I always get filled with envy when I watch Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Thai, and Korean fighters go at it. Guys of Chinese descent haven’t had a championship level fighter since Bruce. Meanwhile, fighters like Penn, Machida, Cung Le, Pacquiao, Hakuho, etc are tearing it up in all fighting sports. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a Chinese male world champion fighter in MMA, boxing, judo, jujitsu, Muay Thai, wrestling, or sumo–basically all the fighting sports that matter.
Chael "Boring" Sonnen at UFC 109
Conversation at the bar where they were showing the UFC 109 match between Chael Sonnen and Nate Marquardt:
jaehwan: Go Marquardt! Get up! What are you doing?
old guy: Why are you cheering for Marquardt? Sonnen is from West Linn.
jaehwan: Sonnen is a Republican who was talking smack against Democrats when he was in UFC.
old guy: What? In that case, f#$k Chael Sonnen! Go Marquardt! Beat his a$$!
Mixed Martial Arts for Christ
Was Jesus Christ a grappler or a striker?
(above link from Jesus ROI. Great site, btw.)
A while back, I blogged about how pastors in Brazil were using Brazilian Jujitsu to pull people into the their church services. It didn’t surprise me. Back when I was a young student in Sunday school, they used pop music to pull us in. They would rewrite secular music with “Lord is my Savior” lyrics, and they would get us to sing these new Jesus-focused songs. I remember bringing up copyright issues, and our teacher assured me that it was okay for two reasons: non-Christians did the same thing with Christian music (I hadn’t heard of this happening, but I took his word for it) and there was nothing under heaven that didn’t already belong to God.
Nick Diaz Beats the "Whitemare"
Zaromskis (l) and Diaz (r)
Did anyone see Strikeforce last night? It seems they keep changing the distribution. It was on CBS, and now it’s on Showtime. Maybe the title fights go on cable?
Anyway, Nick Diaz had a fight against the Dream champion Marius Zaromskis, who calls himself the “Whitemare.” The winner would become the new Strikeforce Champion. If Zaromskis won, he would be the first man ever to hold championships from both a Japanese and an American MMA organization.
Strikeforce Hits Primetime
Did anyone catch Strikeforce on CBS tonight? After that horrible Elite XC card with Kimbo Slice last time, along with the unskilled IFL amateur matches, I was a bit mistrustful of public TV MMA. However, I was delighted by what I saw tonight. I’d known about Strikeforce for a while–Frank Shamrock and Cung Le had their historic fight under the Strikeforce name–and this Strikeforce card lived up to the reputation of the brand.
An Old Article about Lyoto
Lyoto "the Dragon" Machida
Someone e-mailed me an old NY Times article today: Contender Shores Up Karate’s Reputation Among U.F.C. Fans. It’s about Lyoto Machida, written right before he knocked Rashad on his rear. The article is about how Lyoto’s style is changing people’s perception of karate. I agree with most of the article, but I think that karate’s reputation was suffering even before the UFC. Lyoto really turned things around.
What’s ironic is that he’s not the only karate specialist. Chuck Liddell and current welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre, both mentioned in the article, are primarily karate stylists, as is Bas Rutten. Pat Miletich got his striking from karate too. Lyoto just happens to have the most karate-looking style.
Marketing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu schools
My son’s school ends before the work day, so when I pick him, we often have free time. I’ve recently been trying to find some activity to get into shape–other than running, which kills my knees–and since there’s a well regarded Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school around the area, I thought I’d pop in. I don’t know if I’d have time to make the class times, but it never hurts to look, right?
Fighting Pastors
I guess it was bound to happen–the evangelical movement is appropriating jujitsu in Brazil. I couldn’t tell if it’s MMA or grappling only–it looks like it’s grappling only though, since the guys don’t have gloves. But then again, who knows how these fights take place in Brazil?
I must say that I think it’s impressive how evangelicals adopt and appropriate in order to recruit. I’ve heard of how evangelicals have Warcraft nights to use video games for the same purpose. Back when I was in Bible school, they used to take pop music and rewrite it with Jesus-based lyrics. “Love is a Highway” became “Jesus is my Highway.”
BJ Penn and Anderson Silva Win
(pic from here)
Wild night in Philly (though I watched from SE Portland). Anderson Silva had an unbelievable defeat over Forrest Griffin. He was so much faster than Griffin that there was no chance of him losing. In the final few seconds, he put his hands down and just threw random punches, much the same way Naseem Hammed used to do it. He knocked Griffin out with a really short punch. It was, to say the least, surprising.
