 You guys are paying attention. Well, at least 20 of you are anyway. After suggesting that Kimbo’s stoppage was premature and imploring anyone with an opinion to bring it on, I got about 20 emails from you good folks. Eighteen of them were intelligent, proving that MMA fans are not the “Barbarians at the Gate” that Mike Freeman once called us. Now that I know there are sooooo many opinionated people out there (hey, 20 is a good start), I will strive to write better to appease you. Here are my favorite responses:
The winner of an inscribed copy of my book is Michael Moore, and not the obese, liberal filmmaker. This Moore has insightful comments and great suggestions sprinkled lightly with good one-liners. He admits to being an MMA bandwagonner after the first season of TUF and outlined a purely evil plan to take over the world. Well not really, but he’s a bright dude who pretends to work in a bank while secretly surfing MMA websites. He made two great suggestions-chicks love reality shows, so get them involved in TUF if you want them to watch MMA with you, and a live UFC fight is always better then anything else because you know the fighters and the organization are going to be around for the next two years whereas every other promotion could be belly up after the press conference ends. Congrats.
The “Best Comedy” award goes to Johnny Chapstick who said, “Mr. Glass jaw took a fall and now Seth is the greatest thing since sliced Kimbo bread. Trying a double leg takedown proves he was out of it…or maybe that all white guys look alike.” Nice dude! That gave me a chuckle. Runner up was Bruce Kilby. He told me a story about his co-workers who think Kimbo can take GSP or Anderson Silva. I want to work in his office so I can smoke ganja too.
The “M Word” award goes to Danny Craft who compared the UFC to a monopoly. I’ve heard this a few times and did some research on the subject for my book (which everyone has read right?). To be a true monopoly a company has to violate anti-trust laws, have absolutely zero competition, and have crooked politicians passing legislation that benefits them. Examples are US Steel in the 1920’s and AT&T in the 1980’s. The UFC doesn’t meet that definition, so all we can really say about them right now is they’re the shiznit and we better learn to live with it.
The “Most Inquisitive” award goes to CactusCat23 who asked poignant questions like, “Should female fights be five minutes?” “Should there be a weight cap after weigh in?” And my favorite “Why does Mickey wear pants and no shirt but Donald wears a shirt and no pants?”
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