Your Paragon of Virtue

The Canadian Snuffbox chimes in. You know that's a Simpsons quote, right? No, I did not; my mental Simpsons quote repository isn't what it used to be. I thought we were friends man. That's harsh.

I'm surprised they bring that up now. The guy has been on the show for like the past few weeks. I'm really interested in Wiman vs. Manny. I think it will be a better fight than Gray vs. Melendez, which is saying something.

Sure we might save a few lives, but millions will be late!

According to Goldberg, Evans, Guillard and Alexander all "out-athletic, if you will" Their opponents.

Jesus, did you even try looking at the thread dedicated to the fight? Yes it will happen, against a different opponent though. Still a Korean guy, but one less willing to strike.

I am at work right now, and you can only listen to the Celine dion and Abba that the old Filipino ladies play for so long. I've got a set of earphones so profanity and shit like that doesn't matter. I know this might not be the best place to get an answer for a question like this, but I figure I should get a good variety of suggestions regardless. Cheers.

I think it's gonna be a boring fight and a letdown personally. What's more important is that Rudo's latest man-crush is fighting on that card:

I saw that in Mik's sig already.

Jardine isn't a good striker really at all apart from his leg kicks. He has KO power in his hands, but he has no real technique, and is a shoulder puncher. While Alexander had really good technique, and looked like a pro boxer out there. I like to see Alexander fight a grappler his next fight. I had a lot of my homies at my crib for the fight, and everyone single person enjoyed the card. Yeah that's what I'm saying, the guy seems to wing his punches and was lucky that his KO power was enough to knock Forrest out to make up for the lack of technique, he was getting tagged at will in that fight. Would you rate Houston's technique highly? It seemed to me that he was basically just overpowering him with an arm collar clinch and just smashing his head. More dirty boxing than anything else, he didn't really show any great technique or anything, just grabbed him in the clinch and wailed away.

They'll probably leave after 72 though.

I disagree with the assessment that Tito's striking is crap, he's got very good technique with that Don House style of keeping one hand far in front of the other. In the second Chuck fight he actually was doing a decent job of defending himself while tagging Chuck at times, and while Forrest isn't exactly world class he's still got good striking as well, and Tito outstruck him too. His problem like it always has been is that he doesn't respond well to pressure, and when someoen turns up the heat he folds. Anyway, I knew that would happen, but I still like Rampage so I don't mind. Hopefully Wanderlei comes to the UFC this year and we get to see that fight. Much like Wanderlei has the style to beat Rampage, who has the style to beat Chuck, I think Chuck has the style to beat Wanderlei. Glad to see Kalib Starnes take it to Leben, too many people were talking shit about the guy and he showed that the no-heart crap was bullshit. Even with shitty cardio due to smoking too much pot, the guy still managed to fight the whole fight. What was up with Keith Jardine's style? The guy fought like he was a retard. Still, he caught Forrest with a lucky shot after getting outstruck for the majority of the fight, so this shouldn't be that surprising. Tough dude though, he took like thirteen shots and kept coming back. That fight was stopped way too late.

I do, but I don't think he will at this point just because of the first fight and everyone riding Rampage's jock is making me nervous. If you think about it, based on their past few fights Liddell should win, but I'll be damned if that's getting enough talk in the discussion here. I'm pulling for Chuck 110%.

I look at it from more of a purist point of view. If we are limiting the jobs we send overseas, then where do you draw the line? If someone wants to buy a product from an overseas nation, then you are taking money away from a domestic producer that manufactures the same product. Why is this okay but outsourcing labour not okay? It amounts to the same thing in the end. If a poor family has a daughter that needs surgery for life-threatening reasons, why can't they go to India to get it done at a fraction of the cost for the same amount of quality? Why are you forcing them to pay an amount of money that's much more than they can afford? People say outsourcing costs many people domestically lots of problems, but there would still be many similar problems if you don't have any outsourcing at all, many of which have to do with a stagnant growth in terms of quality.

Good for him, though I chuckle at the fact that he goes to the Christian Heritage Academy by day and kills animals by night. I bet he's a fan of Larry the Cable Guy. Am I the only one that thinks it's weird to take your kid out hunting at the age of 5? Maybe I'm just some Canadian hippie, but I find it weird that at an age where most kids should be mourning the loss of Bambi, this kid is causing it.

I really, really, REALLY want Chuck to win, but in the past couple of days I've been leaning toward Rampage. I've seen ads for this all over the city, and full page ads in the paper. I can't remember the last time a main event has garnered this much hype. Should be an awesome night.

I don't think Joe Rogan came off so bad, other than the Boxing will get swallowed comment. He seemed to legitimately be a fan of both. And if you've followed this guy at all, he's not to be full of shit. EDIT: My favourite quote from that page.

Outsourcing is the wave of the future. It is what happens in a pure free market economy really, where people are allowed to get services from people that offer them. What's so bad about this? If I'm a business owner and I can cut my costs in half by going elsewhere for my manufacturing, I'd probably do it. Reality check on the border issue; more than half of illegal immigrants enter the country legally. They obtain visas or some other such thing to have a temporary stay, then just stay longer than they are supposed to. Terrorism? All the men involved in 9/11 had official documents stating that they were legal citizens; illegal immigration and terrorism are not really on the same page. This puts a HUGE dent in the ideas about having someone actually patrol the ridiculously long border, with a wall that's built in patches and can be broken into (considering the model they're using) in a matter of minutes. In one final twist of irony, many companies that have built these walls have hired illegal immigrants to do the work. Amazing.

Can we stop with all the boxing vs. MMA nonsense? It's getting dumb. Sorry, it IS dumb.

Why Can't I fall in Love - Yale Spizzwinks That's the only one off memory that I can think of liking, and the Ivan Neville version (which is not acapella) is way better anyway.

I think they've realized that this is gonna bomb and are just ditching the whole attempt.

I've never heard of any of these songs, I guess I should be happy.

I agree about the Best PF ever claim, and find the best 7 footer one to be laughable. Well not really laughable, because he's up there, but there's no way he's the absolute best.

UFC Countdown and all access on tonight at ten and eleven, respectively. All Access on Rampage. Advertising for this has been lax, so I figure some of you might not have heard about it.