Blog by Socalboxer 
-The MMA
world was flipped on its head again. Recently we saw one of their major attractions, Brock Lesnar, who is more
famous for his WWE make believe wrestling bouts than his “stand up”, get tapped
out by some no name fighter who seemed to twist his pinky toe too much. And it wasn’t more than 2 weeks ago that the
MMA’s largest attraction, Kimbo Slice, was reduced to a freak sideshow and
exposed as an internet fraud by getting knocked out by a jab in 14 seconds.
And now,
the recognized best fighter in the MMA put on one of the worst fights in the
history of any combat sport. It actually
caused the UFC president Dana White to think he was in an “alternate universe”
and say, “I was sitting there going, ‘No, this isn’t happening!”.
During this
same time frame, we saw one of the best performances by any athlete in the
history of all sports by Bernard Hopkins, and a come from behind thriller with
a dramatic saved by the bell ending in Bute vs Andrade.
And that’s not
all; this week is a unification match up by Cristian Mijares and Vic Darchinyan
which is sure to produce fireworks at the highest level of the sport.
Meanwhile,
Dana White was hurling tomatoes at the demise of Elite XC. Saying how it has hurt the MMA more than
anything he could think of, but that was before the UFC 90 Silva fight.
At the end
of the first round Patrick Cote, after watching Silva bizarrely bow to him,
shrugged in bafflement. That wasn’t even as unusual as the moment in the second
round when Silva offered a hand to help Cote up off his back, rather than stomp
him as you’d expect.
The
Silva-Cote middleweight title fight ended in the third round when
Cote blew out his knee without any contact. That was as
strange, although not as much as the fight lasting to the third round in the
first place. Silva danced, he pranced,
he swayed and he even prayed. But he
didn’t fight.
Now some
are suggesting putting Silva in with old man Chuck Lidell. As if Lidell could put on the performance of
a truly great fighter like
Hopkins. I’ll tell you one thing, I wouldn’t spend my
money on it.
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