If you hadn’t already noticed, my header image now credits photographer Dave Niddrie for the image. Special thanks to Dave for agreeing to let me use the photo. The image is part of a great photoset on Flickr of an MMA event up in Vancouver. The rest of his Flickr collections are equally stunning, but less bloody.
A few other MMA-related Flickr links after the jump.
Matt Hughes is selling t-shirts on his site that celebrate his victory over Royce Gracie. Now I’m all for celebrations, but this is just out of line. I mean it could be worse, but c’mon at least have some respect. Why would you do that to the father of MMA? Ohh right.. because you are a fucking arrogant jerkoff.
I do my best to give Hughes his due on this blog about as much as I make fun of him, but this kind of pushes me over. And I know that hating someone who is all about hate is pointless, but at least it’s fun—and it makes for some good light reading for you guys.
Anyway, back to the store. BTW, I’m only linking this for reference. If any of you buy any products from this trailer motherfucker, I will personally armbar your face. Or is that a facebar… whatever… if you give him money the baby Jesus cries.
My personal favorites are the Bible verse t-shirts. No wonder he keeps winning! God likes him!
** THIS POST CONTAINS EXTREME WEB NERDERY ** and I will probably lose most of you partway through. But I have to get this off my gotdamn chest.
Whenever websites require the use of Internet Explorer on a PC with ActiveX to get to something on the internet, it makes me angry. In fact, whenever any site MAKES you do anything to reach its content, it makes me angry. It’s like saying, “my shit is so great, I will MAKE you jump through hoops to get to it”. Fuck, that pisses me off. So pissed that I had to make a blog entry title with as much spunk as this one.
First off, right before UFC VOD launched, UFC fights began disappearing from places like YouTube. This made me sad. As you can guess, I’m not exactly a proponent of Digital Rights Management. My opinion on this is even stronger when it comes to MMA because I believe that in order to generate fanfare, people need to see old fights. This is what generates high gate and PPV revenues, which is where most of Zuffa and Pride’s money comes from. DVD sales? Not so much. Is it because of piracy or YouTube? I doubt it.
OK back to the browser issue with video.ufc.com (I’m not even going to link to it because I hate it so much). ActiveX is Microsoft-ware that basically allows a web application to access your computer. It’s gone through a gauntlet of updates because of security issues alone, much less functional issues—basically it’s a piece of shit on fire. I’m guessing that they are using it to keep you from stealing the video and distributing it elsewhere, which I have issues with inherently, but I find it hard to believe that there aren’t other options.
According to the visitor stats for this very blog you’re reading, 29% of you are using Firefox. If I could meet each and every one of you I would shake your hand, pat you on the ass, look you in the eyes and say, “Thank you” in an earnest and sincere fashion. So let’s say that my relatively small sample size is accurate. This means that video.ufc.com is blocking access to 1/3 of all of their visitors. Nice work, retards. Welcome to the InterWeb. And if that weren’t enough, 11% of you are using Macs. None of you will be able to access it, but it’s not because YOU are on a Mac… it’s because the UFC doesn’t understand web standards.
The worst part of this is that if you aren’t using IE on a PC, you can still make purchases! How fucked up is that? If you’re on a Mac, you’d be dropping cash on videos that you can’t even fucking watch. So listen up, my little monkeys: keep posting on YouTube, and don’t buy anything from that store. Maybe that way it will do the only thing that it should be doing—go away.
Thank you for listening.
Just watched UFC Fight Night 6.
Diego, Diego, Diego… where do I begin? On the day that Diego was born, God was there to distribute brains, and just as He was about to fill his little noggin, Diego must’ve shot in for a double-leg.
How can a grappling savant be so fucking retarded? I mean we’re talking about an individual who can sense, process, and solve incredibly complex spatial problems in a fractions of a second. Yet every time he opens his mouth to say something, he sounds like a second-grader who just poopied his pants. I joke about how retarded he is, but seriously… does anyone else think that maybe he really is mentally retarded? He’s definitely got ‘tard strength.
In addition to the ‘tard strength, he also never gets tired. It’s like he’s so dumb that his body doesn’t realize how oxygen-starved it is, so he just keeps going. I’ve coined it Tardio™. That’s right, you heard it here first.
If he’s looking for a challenge, screw the UFC. Right now the only thing I want to see is Diego Sanchez in a third grade spelling bee. It’ll be like a nightmare, Diego… a nightmare that won’t end until you get the bell. You can ask for word origins, you can ask for it to be used in a sentence… but no matter what, you will lose.
At UFC 61, the UFC had announced a bout between Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva contingent upon Liddell’s victory over Renato “Babalu” Sobral. Now according to a report by the Calgary Sun, the fight may be off. UFC President Dana White claims that this is due to issues in dealing with Pride, Japan’s titan MMA organization.
Some believe that the UFC, finding nothing to gain from this matchup, is backing out. If Wandy wins the fight, it suddenly ranks the skill of UFC fighters as #2. This, in the larger scheme of things, is a good thing for the evolution of MMA, but from the UFC’s business perspective is just plain stupid. Maybe the UFC execs finally saw Wandy’s fight clips.
On the other hand, maybe Dana White does have a high-level plan for the prosperity of MMA and is willing to take a temporary kick in the nuts. I don’t believe that he is the type of man who says things just to say things, and accusing Pride of being difficult to work with doesn’t seem like a very prudent lie.
In any case, if this whole thing falls through it will do a number of things:
Of course all of this still hinges on Chuck beating Babalu, which still remains to be seen. Good luck, Chuck, because if he closes that distance and you haven’t hit him in the face really hard, he might rip your arms off.
