UFC Results and Thoughts

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UFC 146 on pay-per-view last night was an excellent card,  Here are the results and my thoughts on the three top fights:

  • Roy Nelson vs Dave Herman
    Prediction: Nelson by decision
    Result: Nelson won via first round KO [51 seconds] [Making me 1-0 for the night]
    Thoughts: Nelson is a fan favorite with power and he showed it last night.
  • Cain Velasquez vs. Antonio Silva
    Prediction: Velasquez by TKO
    Result: Velasquez by first round TKO [3:36] [Making me 2-0 for the night]
    Thoughts: Velasquez took Silva down and swarmed him with punches and elbows which opened up a cut producing one of the bloodiest bouts in memory.  Velasquez should be next in line for a title shot.
  • Junior dos Santos vs. Frank Mir
    Prediction: Although the odds are against him, Miir is my favorite fighter so in an huge upset special – Mir by submission.
    Result: JDS won via second round TKO [3:04 seconds] [Making me 2-1 for the night]
    Thoughts: JDS and Mir are both class acts with each praising the other after the fight.  Mir couldn’t get JDS to the canvas and JDS was not willing to go there, so the fight remained a stand-up battle that ended as predicted.

Other thoughts:

  • Jason Mayhem Miller rocked CB Dollaway a couple of times but had no answer when CB took him to the mat and rode him for the remainder of the rounds.  Of course CB couldn’t do much except ride, so it made for a boring match met with a lot of boos.  CB won the decision and Miller was cut from the UFC.
  • Brock Lesnar was in the crowd and it was reported that he wanted to meet with Dana White causing speculation that Lesnar may want  to return for another run.  My guess is that if Lesnar was thinking about a return to the UFC, it would have been for a title shot if Mir had won.


UFC 146 Predictions

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UFC 146 airs on pay-per-view tonight and it features three fights of interest:

  • Roy Nelson vs Dave Herman
    Prediction: Nelson by decision
  • Cain Velasquez vs. Antonio Silva
    Prediction:  Velasquez by TKO
  • Junior dos Santos vs. Frank Mir
    Prediction: Although the odds are against him, Miir is my favorite fighter so in an huge upset special – Mir by submission.


Skyfall Goes 1-1

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I’m a big fan of Daniel Craig as James Bond.  In fact, I’ll go as far as to to say that Casino Royal is my favorite of all the Bond films.  Ok, once the booing dies down, we’ll continue.  Yes, Sean Connery *is* James Bond.  Ok, I’ll even say Connery is my favorite Bond. 

I’m just trying to establish that I’m a big fan of Daniel Craig as Bond.  So it surprises me that I don’t like the teaser poster for his latest outing as 007 in Skyfall.  Every time I look at it I see an old man.

If you’d like to see a big as the Sky-fall version of the poster, you can thanks to the friendly folks at  IMPAwards.

Since I wrote my opinion on the Skyfall poster, I see that the movie’s teaser trailer was released.  Now that, I like.  Maybe because Daniel Craig looked more like Bond than some old guy dressed as Bond.

Robin Gibb – R.I.P.

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Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.

I’ve always been a Bee Gees fan. I liked their music before the disco craze hit, loved the stuff that they did during it, and continued to enjoy their work even after it was no longer cool to do so.  One of my stations on Pandora is named Bee Gees Radio.   62 is way too young to die.

We’ve lost another talent, but as cliche as it sounds, the music will live on. Our prayers go out to Robin Gibb’s family, friends and fans.

You Can Call Him Arrow

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Have you seen this trailer for comic book character Green Arrow’s adaptation into a tv series called Arrow?  It was a smart move to shorten the name to Arrow.  Now let’s hope that they avoid the use of “trick” arrows and they might have something.  I think it looks interesting enough to check it out.

Thanks and a pull of the quiver to CBR.

Donna Summer R.I.P.

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Donna Summer passed away today after an extended battle with lung cancer.  Ms. Summer was 63. 

Donna Summer was known as the Queen of Disco and rightly so.  She rose to fame in the 1970’s and helped lead a generation into the disco craze.  In 1975, she co-wrote and performed her first hit, Love to Love You Baby which shot up the charts.  Hit after hit followed. 

Ms. Summer had 19 number one hits on the dance charts.  She was the first female singer to have four number one singles in a 13 month period, had three consecutive double LPs to hit #1 on the charts, and she won five Grammys. Donna Summer’s music helped define the Disco era.

I always liked Donna Summer’s music.  I can remember being in Camelot Music the first time I heard her sing, Love to Love You, Baby.  The song came on and she started singing and I was hooked… along with a generation of music lovers.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Donna Summer’s family, friends and fans.