I almost boycotted the UFC last week.

 OK..so my boycott threat was only forealsies for about 10 seconds after the decision went in Forrest’s favor, but that was a pretty hostile 10 seconds. I went to Buffalo Wild Wings over on the Kansas side to watch the fight, mainly surrounded by Forrest fans. Obviously, I was pulling for Rampage and seemed to me and anyone else with eyes that he was shafted.

I haven’t booed that loud since the last time I went to church.

I never wanted the UFC to start becoming a popularity contest, with Dana White pulling the strings behind who holds the belts. I still think yts are mad that Dana’s golden boy Liddell got knocked out by our boy Rampage last year and has been itching to get Forrest the title in there for some time.

(sigh)

Let’s hope Dana hurries up and sets up Rampage vs Forrest II: “The Black Attack” or whatever campy slogan is left to title it..

 Whatever. At least I still have Anderson Silva to watch.

 Muay Thai, FTW!

pic stolen from H8, and i make no apologies.

^LoL.

Usually basketball bores my pants off (WOW you’re 7 feet tall and you can dunk. Not impressed). It’s not a physical enough game for me. But I decided to do my duty as a Black man this year and watch the Final Four. I seriously hate the time in between NFL seasons, luckily the UFC upped the number of fights it schedules and one of my 8 thousand cable channels shows lots of PrideFC. I’ve played my share of ball, but my style of ‘playing’ usually ends up in fights. Anyways, the best part about basketball–clearly–is someone (that isn’t you) getting dunked on. The second best part is when someone takes a picture of it and puts it online.

Congrats to Kansas, and my condolences to Joey Dorsey (#3) and his family for not only getting bammed on and losing, but being immortalized on the internets. The internets don’t go away Joey.

Kids, practice your free throws. Chalmers for three!

^negro please.

My stellar research team just alerted me to this dude making Carl Peterson and the rest of the Chiefs look like even bigger idiots for signing him to that massive contract. While the rest of the team is trying to figure out if they can win any more games the rest of the season with mediocre players, King Pink is ballin out of control in New York when he’s supposed to be rehabbing his shitty ankle. Once again, Pink doesn’t care if the team wins or loses, and he made that clear when he held out in the beginning of the year…3.5 yards per carry and 3 TD’s, Pink? Maybe instead of coonin’ it up in New York you should be doing some damn drills.

Has anyone ever seen all this dude’s teeth out like this? He mopes around KC like the whole world is against him–which they pretty much are at this point considering his lack of production, ‘whoa is me’ demeanor, and his local ‘rapping.’ Damn we shoulda traded him when he was worth shit.

Also, why does Brodie Croyle look like a 14-year old to me?

^ha!

Normally I don’t read Whitlocks’ stuff in its entirety, and usually the comments he generates are MUCH more entertaining than what he writes. The people who generally hate him the worst are also his biggest fans when he’s shitting on OJ, Ron Mexico, Kobe, etc (read:Black folk). But as soon as he starts talking about 70%ers (70 percent of the population…White people, duh), those same chubby chasers that would ask Whitlock for autographs when he’s on their side blasting Blacks are the same losers who want him fired when he talks about they peoples.

“But White sports figures aren’t required to have a social conscience. They can satisfy themselves chasing supermodels and filming cute commercials. America’s morally bankrupt war on drugs, a cause that has killed and destroyed more lives than Vietnam and Iraq combined, has finally put Andy Reid’s kids on the front lines (incarceration), and Andy Reid doesn’t have a damn meaningful thing to say about it.”

^100% accurate. I actually agree with this article, and I’m not really surprised that 70’s get angry when their particular biases are exposed. I have to admit that I’m pretty tired of his deck beginning to ONLY hold race cards, but I guess that’s the little niche that he’s wedged himself into. Everyone’s gotta eat I guess.

“I liked being the rich kid in that area and having my own high-status life,” Garrett Reid told a probation officer, according to reporters covering his court proceedings. “I could go anywhere in the ‘hood. They all knew who I was. I enjoyed it. I liked being a drug dealer … These kids were scared of me. I was even selling to their parents.”

I’m used to White kids riding through and picking up their various illegal fixes from ghettos once their prescriptions get low and their parent’s liquor is on empty, but the audacity of Reid’s kids is pretty appalling. Andy Reid is up there for the inagural ’shitty dad of the year’ award. Apparently financing a viable drug operation and enabling your sons to abuse their RWB (Rich White Boy, duh!) status isn’t as egregious as I thought it should be. Where’s the outrage here?

I guess you have to fight dogs to make headlines anymore…

Let me rephrase. SOME tv is watchable again. Obviously we are on the brink of the beginning of Americas’ real pastime, football. The NCAA season started yesterday and the pros start next week. Friggin’ finally. I can’t even watch Sportscenter anymore because all they want to talk about is lame-ass baseball, lame-ass Nascar, and lame-ass tournament Basketball (USA vs. Angola? Who cares?). It always seems like forever and three days between football seasons, and weekends are especially pointless without my football fix (Saturday AND Sunday, bitches!). I’ll probably have to focus more this season on college football, because my Chiefs are looking quite shaky heading in to the regular season. I’m always going to be a fan, but I hope that they don’t turn into a perennial loser that can’t manage to notch more than 5 in the win column (see: Lions, Browns, Cardinals, Raiders). I’m concerned about that every season, but I suppose I’ve gotten used to a solid offensive line and an effective QB. This year? Not so much.

In what has recently appeared to be a gift from the gods, MMA has stepped up to the plate and provided people with something exciting to watch year-round. Last week, we got together with a few of my peoples to watch UFC 74. That shit was awesome. Randy “I’m your dads age” Couture thoroughly dispached Gabriel Gonzaga, who is nearly half Randy’s age and bigger, stronger, faster. I don’t think many people realistically believed that Randy could pull it off, but he did, and in convincing fashion. Great entertainment. Plus George St. Pierre won, and I like that guy (even though he’s from Canada, i’ll let that slide…..this time.) Next week (UFC 75, Sept 8th) has several fights on one card that I’m willing to sleep through the entire week so I can see immediately:

#1 Rampage Jackson vs Dan Henderson: I love Rampage’s ridiculocity, humor, and fighting style–and I hope he wins this one. Henderson is a seriously dangerous fighter, and a tough guy to root against because he seems like a respectful and pleasant dude. More importantly, he beat the hell out of Wanderlei Silva in PRIDE. Silva, as most MMA fans know, consistently whoops Rampages’ ass. I’m glad that the UFC is openly courting fighters from PRIDEFC, which I feel has the most talent in MMA right now (sorry Vale Tudo and K1..people want that UFC paycheck apparently).

#2 Mirko Cro Cop vs. Cheik Kongo: I really thought Cro Cop invincible in the UFC until he caught one of the most brutal kicks ever courtesy of Gabriel Gonzaga. Regardless, he’s still an extremely powerful striker with the serious task of reviving his reputation. I haven’t seen much of Kongo, but the dude is a 6′4″ 240 lbs chunk of concrete with excellent striking. From what I’ve seen from both fighters, they prefer to avoid ground fighting and submissions–that translates into someone is getting knocked the hell out, and quickly. I think Cro Cop will take this one but everyone has a punchers’ chance.

#3 Houston Alexander (pic) vs. Alessio Sakara: It may seem weird, but I’m actually the most anxious about this fight. Alexander came out of nowhere and embarrassed the hell out of Keith Jardine in what had to be the biggest upset of recent memory. This dude has bricks for fists and a mean streak. I’d like to see if he can continue to pummel people or if he’s just a flash in the ring. I think the key for Alexander is the fact that people continue to underestimate his handspeed and power. We haven’t seen much in the way of his ground technique or experience defending grapplers, so this should be interesting. Sakara is a decorated striker, in fact he’s an Italian boxing champion with some impressive hands. Gonna go with Alexander on this one.

PS. I heard a rumor that the UFC was openly trying to work out a contract with Fedor Emelianenko (pic), who’s been at the #1 ranked heavyweight in the the world for 4 years–in everyone’s polls. I’ve never seen this Russian robot (think Ivan Drago from Rocky IV, only bigger, stronger, and real) hurt, knocked down, or panicked. Besides that, he’s never lost a professional fight and has zero known weaknesses. I’m quite sure that he cannot be beaten in the UFC, but we’ll see what happens.