Lord of The Curry

I think Darthtiki was spot-on about Entourage's finale this year. I could see Ari calling Vince and Eric into his office after a screening of I Wanna Be Sedated and only saying two words: "Oscar buzz". Fade to credits.

Fuck. Now you got me wanting to see this episode.

Wee-Bay from The Wire showed up on Entourage on Sunday, not sure if anybody notices/cares but goddamnit I did. Franklin Terrace what!

"Heel turn"

Tong is like the hyena of MMA knowledge. Just when you think you've made a clean kill and are sitting down for a good meal..........*BLAM*. He shows up and makes the food more difficult to digest.

I need to convince Rudo to come back so we can distinguish that we are not, in fact, the same person. Vyce has odd ways of flirting with people but if he continues to use the word "faggot" excessively he'll have one foot planted halfway outside the closet.

This isn't DVDVR, picks contests mean shit 'round here. And Penn never took GSP down. The best he did was get him to one knee and St. Pierre got up from there.

I'm looking forward to seeing Horodecki in action as well.

If you can name something hotter then Royce F'n Gracie training Brock Lesnar, have at it.

tkomma.tv is the official site, not sure about prices right now but it goes something like $200, $100, $70 and $50, I think. Rudo and I are looking at the $70 but it depends on where they're located. Floor seats at MMA shows ('specially now that they're using the cage) aren't always the best. Elevated viewing might be the best option right now.

Let me know if you are going, Rudo and I are heading up your way for it.

I think banky would probably be in my top 5 of "Posters who I'd like to have a beer with but probably wouldn't want to have a beer with me".

Freamon is the man. I knew from the start of season one that he'd come up with something that would fuck shit up and sure enough *BLAM* he comes up with the only known picture of Avon Barksdale.

Angle is going to wind up all kinds of dead in this match. I look forward to the post-match column on WWE.com about how he's going to need to take more time off.

I hope he stabs you with a fork.

After seeing Stout completely cave against Florian I'm picking Edwards in this one. Mind you, I don't see either guy taking it to the ground so I suppose it's a fairly even-matched fight standing.

I should send a call up to Harlem and get them to put Brother Mouzone on all these haters of season two. It had Method Man in it for fucks sake!

Sam Stout vs Yves Edwards at TKO 27 this September in Montreal. HOLLA.

First off, this is meant to be a serious thread and I'll try to be on my best behaviour. But don't be stupid. If you don't know anything about MMA then don't talk like you do or come in here just to insult it. If you've got a question, ask. I won't bite. The threads purpose is to get a general opinion on the rise of MMA and the influence we now see peaking through in pro wrestling. Unless you've been living under some kind of sound and sight-proof rock, mixed martial arts is becoming big. Really big. A lot of people wouldn't admit a year ago that we'd be seeing the influence take hold of pro wrestling and more specifically WWE but it's here. The question now is how big can/will it get? I'd be remiss to point out the biggest problem that WWE and other companies will face is the simplest one: MMA is real. Anybody who knew anything about strikes or, more specifically submissions knew that it would be hard to cross over into the pro wrestling realm because MMA moves just weren't over in North America. Japan was another story as the UWF-i promotion became quite successful doing worked shoot-fights and the idea of submission finishers that would cause an instant tapout became big. In WWE and WCW you'd see somebody in an armbar for a good thirty seconds or so before they reversed the move. Credit must be given to NWA-TNA for forwarding the concept of submissions with Samoa Joe's rear naked choke, probably one of the best submission finishers in quite some time. Why? Because it's quick and dirty. Joe locks it in hard and forcefully and the opponent rarely lasts more then a few seconds before tapping, just like would happen in real life (or you pass out, something TNA also used with the finish to the AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe X-Division title match). Now on WWE tv in the last month we've seen the introduction of CM Punk and Sylvester Terkay, two wrestlers whose gimmicks are MMA-oriented, both using submissions as finishers. Terkay wears vale-tudo (another term for no holds barred) gloves and in his Smackdown bio they talk about his former career as an MMA fighter. I haven't seen him wrestle so I can't really comment on his believeability. The CM Punk match against Justin Credible was a little more obvious. For one, the interlocked-hands motion that Punk did in his corner before his match was directly taken from a Brazillian fighter named Wanderlei Silva who's been doing that for years and years now. On commentary Tazz talks about Punks training in Brazillian jiu-jitsu and during the course of the fight Punk was using things like the side-mount, full-mount, spinning back fists and Muay-Thai clinch knees. So, what are your thoughts? Good idea? Good idea in practice until the the fans realize that they can tune in on SpikeTV and see the real stuff? Horrible idea? Discuss. PS- I neglected to mention Taker's absolutely shitty triangle choke that nobody except for Big Show has tapped out to. But it's Taker so I don't mind.

Hells yeah. Interesting that they showed Tweener in the preview, I figured he'd be written out for a while. I was wondering at what point the DB Cooper fortune was going to be brought up. T-Bag, C-Note and Michael were the only ones who heard him say where it was and I imagine they'll be gunning for it before the government wises up and tries to move on it.

FICHTNER~! That's gonna be hot. I just finished season one and having fallen off this show despite starting this thread originally I can now rejoice for having caught up in time for season two. Some general thoughts on the finale/whatnot...... - I agree with the swerve surrounding the presidents death. As if the shit surrounding Linc and his dad couldn't get any more fucked. - Haywire stalking the guys around the prison before the escape was awesome, as was his stealing the bike and helmet. - T-Bag is definetly alive but I'm not sure how he'll fit into things in season two. - That final shot..........wow. Not sure how the next season can start off with them eluding the fuzz.

That's a tough call for me. I love The Wire as well but I'll have to wait until we get Season 3 in my stores shipment tommorow to make a complete judgement. I'd give a kidney to see Stringer Bell vs Al Swearengen in place where time stands still, though.

Agreed. And I won't even bother ranting on the lack of Deadwood love in this thread. The best show on TV in maybe its best season yet and nobody gives a fuck.

*Buzzer* The correct answer is DIPSET, BITCH.

I clicked on this thread hoping it was going to be about the band Holy Fuck. I want my 20 seconds back.