Upcoming Affliction and WEC cards

So I was at the gym today and some dude was wearing an Affliction shirt. Then I remember Vladdy was supposed to fight Lil Nog at the last one but the whole card got postponed...something about holding off for a Fedor/Arlovski fight or sumpin. Anyway, what a coincidence. Before it occurs to me to snoop around for info, I come across not only the Affliction card, but the WEC one as well.

Look at that Affliction card. Not bad.

The WEC card has some interesting stuff too.

The Affliction 2 poster and it's rumored card:

- Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski
- Josh Barnett vs. Aleksander Emelianenko?
- Tim Sylvia vs. TBA
- Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
- Matt Lindland vs. Renato "Babalu" Sobral or Trevor Prangley?
- Chris Horodecki vs. Dan Lauzon
- Gegard Mousasi vs. Vitor Belfort
- Paul Buentello vs. Roy Nelson
- Pedro Rizzo vs. Ben Rothwell
- Jay Hieron vs. Drew Fickett
- Jason High vs. Mike Pyle

WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL

- Urijah Faber vs. Mike Brown
- Paulo Filho vs. Chael Sonnen
- Jens Pulver vs. Leonard Garcia
- Nissen Osterneck vs. Jake Rosholt
- "Razor" Rob McCullough vs. Donald Cerrone
- Jose Aldo vs. Jonathan Brookins
- Alex Schoenauer vs. Steve Steinbeiss
- Ed Ratcliff vs. Danny Castillo
- Johny Hendricks vs. Alex Serdyukov
- Rani Yahya vs. Yoshiro Maeda

tuf 8 episode 1 revisited

the preliminaries

seems like they have spots for certain character "types." like they'll have 2 guys who are kinda similar in some aspect and then match em up so that only 1 of those "types" ends up in the house.

eg, they had juni fight aguilar for the raging douchebag spot.

eg, they had nover fight duarte for the asian/islander striker spot.

i have no problem with that. i'm just sayin.


phillipe nover

find nover between 18:21 - 25:14

there's speculation in the mma world that dana was referring to nover when he said this season has a "24 year old lightweight anderson silva."

its possible. the guy doesnt remind me of silva during his prelim fight. but i will say that his attacks on the feet and the ground are clean and he's game from beginning to end. i'd have to see more, but its prbly him.


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unrelated: last nights ufc

if i had bet, i wouldve made $1.20 on the dollar off the alves/koscheck fight. the oddsmakers putting alves at underdog really had it all wrong. he's a top contender for sure. only no one (except me) realized it till last night. the only way his showing couldve been better was if alves scored a ko. regardless, alves fucking rocked koscheck all night and it was glorious every single time.


unrelated: tuf 9 tryouts

a couple changes. for one, they switched it to ww and lw. for another, they are looking for a higher caliber of competitor. they are requiring all candidates to have at least 3 pro fights under their belts. so i guess the days of the jason thackers and wayne weems and eli whatshisnames ending up on the show are over. haha.

UFC schedule: Sat 9/25

posting b/c my memory is suck

900am: UFC Countdown (prolly not worth watching, imo)
100pm: "
200pm: UFC All Access with Anderson Silva Spike (already seen it)
230pm: TUF 8 Mini-Marathon (wanna rewatch the prelims and see the last episode)
530pm: UFC All Access with Anderson Silva
600pm: UFC Countdown

700pm: UFC 90 on PPV

UFC 90 quick predictions:

Silva vs Cote: Silva
come on man
p.s. ufc all acess w/ silva: wats going on btwn him n rachelle?

Koscheck vs Thiago Alves: Alves
thiago's better all around. has the skills to smash kos, but not vice versa.

Sherk vs Tyson Griffin: ???
but this should be good. i didnt even know they were on the card.

Hermes Franca vs Marcus Aurelio: ???
split teams on bad terms. should be interesting. not too familiar with aurelio.

ong bak 2

stunts on top of elephants. thats wild!


elephant stampede @ 1:14; hand to hand starts @ 2:16

my first reaction was yeah teh action looks sick! but ytf they gotta put weapons and kung fu and crap in it?

but whateva. looks like the storyline involves integrating all arts, armed and unarmed, into a single system or something like that.

on a related note, my friend just returned from thailand and sent me like 600 pics of her trip. literally!

tuf 8 guy stole my gimmick!

theres this kid on tuf8 named phillipe nover (pronounced felipe, i believe. no kidding). here's some footage of him b4 tuf.



just found out he's a gah damn f-ing ER nurse.



hey, thats my gimmick, u fuk! i hope he loses big & is soon forgotten.

no not really. i think its cool. and of course i will root for him.

besides, i will not work er anytime soon. we're not in the same wt class. and theres no way hes gonna pimp the nursing angle as big as i will. plus ive got other horns to toot. heh.

dedicated to all MMA fighters

such a great video i dont think u have to be a fighter to "get it"

good weekend for mma

1. there's the local fights. wonder how much tix cost.

and then

2. there's the free ufc. gotta love it.

quick ufc predictions:

bisping vs leben: bisping
leben has improved a lot since his tuf days. but bisping has always had better technique, skills, and strategy. bisping by decision.

vera vs jardine: vera
interesting matchup. jardine is strong. but veras slicker, more fluid, more skilled. vera has looked lame in his last few fights but i think this can be an ez one for vera. but thats what i thought during his last fight. still, if i were betting, i'd put my money on vera. vera by ko if he unloads, by dec if he doesnt.

other matches
looks like gono is fighting, as is sokoudjou (sp?). dont know much about either one of their oppenents but lookin fwd to seein them as well.

the only thing better than a hamburger w/ 2 grilled cheese sandwiches for buns...

is a dbl bcn chsbrgr with 3 bacon-stuffed grilled cheez sammiches.
2 for buns, 1 for divider (big mac style). whoa.



W I N.

aztec crab

gis..masks...wats this?



"bjj killer" wins w/ the lucha libre?

lolol!!

fuckin joe son!

joe son is back in the public eye.

cuz he got arrested! dudes lookin at 275 to life for some prtty vile shit.



gang rape. sodomy. forced oral. gun.

wtf.

he originally made his mark in the early days of the ufc (early 90s) thumpin his bible while kimo carried that cross to the octagon (LOL). and for his own style of "joe son do" (LOL) that he used against keith hackney only to submit from punches to the nuts (LOL).



then he resurfaced (late 90s) at some underground card downtown (i think i was there) in which he basically ran the whole fight and got his ass whoopped. yeah i think i was there.

then he somehow got a spot in the big show. pride. came to the ring in fucking speedos. at a time when fighters had long abandoned speedos for boardshorts, vale tudo shorts, and other less faggy shit. LOL.

then he got a role in austin powers (cool).

then he had some hard times. or so they say. mental illness and drugs dont mix. mmmmmk?

then he got busted for some fucked up shit he did in 1990.

the end.


tmz article

"Austin Powers" Star Charged in Gang Rape
Posted Oct 9th 2008 8:22PM by TMZ Staff

TMZ has learned the actor who played Random Task in the first "Austin Powers" movie has been charged with a vicious gang rape.

Joe Son's arrest has been all over newspapers in the O.C., but no one connected the dots -- that the suspect is actually Dr. Evil's henchman -- until now.

Here's how it all went down. Son pleaded guilty back in May to felony vandalism. The plea required him to fork over a DNA sample. Investigators ran his sample and found Son's DNA connected him to an unsolved gang rape back in 1990, where a woman was pistol-whipped, raped, threatened with death and eventually blindfolded and released naked.

Son has been charged with five felony counts of rape, two felony counts of forcible sodomy, two felony counts of sodomy in concert by force, seven felony counts of forcible oral copulation, and one felony count of sexual penetration by foreign object by force.

Son faces a maximum sentence of 275 years to life if convicted.

sherdog article

Joe Son Arrested on 1990 Gang Rape Charge
Friday, October 10, 2008
by Loretta Hunt (lhunt@sherdog.com)


Joseph Hyungmin Son -- better known as UFC veteran Joe Son to diehard MMA fans -- was arrested Oct. 7 in Huntington Beach, Calif., on charges related to a 1990 Christmas Eve gang rape. Son, who was already in custody for an unrelated vandalism charge, was linked to the 1990 crime when he gave a DNA sample to authorities following a probation violation. A second assailant tied to the 1990 crime is still at large.

TMZ.com and the Orange County Register were the first to report Son’s arrest.

Son has been charged with five felony counts of forcible rape, two felony counts of forcible sodomy, two felony counts of sodomy in concert by force, seven felony counts of forcible oral copulations, one felony count of sexual penetration by foreign object by force, and sentencing enhancements for kidnapping to commit sexual assault, personal use of a firearm, use of a firearm during a sex offense, and great bodily injury to sexual assault victim.

If convicted, the 39-year-old Son faces a maximum sentence of 275 years to life in prison. He is being held on $1 million bail.

Son, along with a second suspect, is accused of dragging the victim into the back of a car, pistol whipping her, threatening her life at gun point while he counted the bullets in his gun, and raping, sodomizing, and forcing her to orally copulate him repeatedly, according to a release from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Son is also accused of sexually penetrating the victim with his firearm before she was released naked with her pants tied around her eyes.

Son, who was submitted by Keith Hackney at 1994’s UFC 4 after being struck in his groin repeatedly, is also remembered for his dramatic entrances in which he dragged a large wooden stake to the cage on his back. He also briefly stood in as Kimo Leopoldo’s manager at UFC 3, and later earned the role of Random Task in Mike Meyer’s 1997 blockbuster film “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.”

After an embarrassing 54-second loss at the Pride’s short-lived “The Best” series in 2002, a Speedo-clad Son retired from competition with a record of 0-4.

cheeseburger w/ 2 grilled cheese sandwiches

for buns.



how awesome is that

scrambled eggs n tofu

y the hell not?

good source of protein n calcium. easy on the calories, the taste buds, the stomach, and the pocketbook. fry in canola oil, then also a good source of unsat fats.

only thing is i'd probably want to add a fruit/veggie in there. perhaps tomato, mushroom, pepper, onion, or something.


ahhh the source of my inspiration. its some vegan chicks version of scrambled eggs. xcept she used crumbled tofu instead of eggs and some complicated vegan thing for ham. haha fuck that.

EliteXC Sat Oct 4th

putting it up or ill forget

9PM on CBS

kimbo vs shamrock
arlovski vs big country
gina carano
and more

telemarketing stupidity: Wyndham Resorts Vacation

Caller ID: 702-794-4666
Caller: Wyndham Resorts Vaction
Caller Type: Telemarketer

These assholes based in Las Vegas call my cell phone at least twice a day. If they think I'll do any fucking business with them or give them any positive word of mouth, they're out of their minds. Why would I do that when they are such a pain in my ass?

Nope, I'm putting it out there that they are CERTIFIED FUCKTARDS.

Fuck 'em.

palin biden debate

palin's irrelevant non-answers = chewbacca defense

eg, what question was she answering here?



this kind of wtf empty chatter reminds me of nursing school...


...and the chewbacca defense:

fast fwd to 1:30

palin's strategy was simple: look directly into camera, smile, praise mccain, then say whatever the hell you want about the general subject of the question while ignoring the actual question entirely. oh and dont forget to throw in a wink here and there.

cant wait to see tina fey's take on SNL.


dear terrorists,
if mccain and palin win the election, please do not assasinate mccain. as commander in chief, ms. hockey mom will surely end the u.s.
thanks,
j

TUF 8, episode 3 GIF: Bader vs Lawler

this bader guy looks like he has some good ground skills. think he was a d1 wrestler or something. anyway, big nog seems to think highly of him. thats a good sign for sure.

in related news, tuf9 tryouts are mw and ww in chigao. fucking awesome. if i were in shape, didnt need surgery, my foot were better, i wasnt too far overwt and outta shape, had been training, etc...