Story time with Mac Danzig

November 20, 2009 – 12:26 pm by Shawn

Here’s an interesting story from Mac Danzig I read on Sherdog:

Seven years ago, I was coming off a decision loss in the WEC that was held in Connecticut. As if a five-hour plane ride back home after a disappointing loss wasn’t miserable enough, Tito Ortiz was sitting directly in front of me. He had been wearing his UFC belt everywhere the entire weekend of the fight and was still wearing it in the airport and now on the plane ride home, too. He had to turn it backwards to comfortably sit on the plane.

He proceeded to tilt his seat back as far as it could possibly go. This left nothing in my forward vision except for a giant yellow head, not to mention the fact that his seat was basically in my lap, which was more than mildly uncomfortable. Over the course of the next five hours, I tried my best to sleep, but every time I opened my eyes, there was a huge sphere of yellow hairs with dark roots coming in no less than 12 inches from my face. I was bordered on the right by a window and on the left by Colin Oyama.

Luckily for me, I was able to suppress this memory for quite some time, but after seeing that giant yellow head bounce around the ring a few times afterward, I’d get flashbacks. Rumor had it that just a few weeks earlier, Lee Murray soccer-kicked a giant yellow beach ball in a British pub. Forrest by TKO in round three.

Tito has been playing a giant douche bag on TV for over a decade. After hearing this little story, one thing is for certain: “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” is a committed method actor.

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JackalFights: Caol Uno vs. Jean-Jacques Machado

November 20, 2009 – 11:30 am by Reverend Clint

Here is some good old grappling featuring a guy fighting on Saturday

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Karo Parisyan gets himself kicked out of the UFC

November 19, 2009 – 6:53 pm by fightlinker

I think the tweets from Dana White (via Cage Tater) above are pretty self explanatory. Very little info coming back from Karo, but MMAWeekly has one of those ‘excuses’ Karo gave - the old “It’s the government’s fault” line, with Karo claiming the Nevada State Athletic Commission wouldn’t re-license him until he paid the 32k he owed due to a failed drug test back in January. Not too shabby a reason, Karo. Unfortunately, at the same time Karo was telling this to MMAWeekly, NSAC head Keith Kizer was telling Steve Cofield in detail how they had worked out a very reasonable payment plan for that money.

And here’s Kizer telling Sherdog that Karo’s license is just fine. So what the fuck, Karo? Anxiety issues again, perhaps? Perhaps. But in the video above, Kizer also mentions that in a recent conversation, Karo was awful interested in knowing exactly what kind of pain medication he was allowed to take … not exactly the most confidence inspiring line of questioning from someone who just got off a suspension for having several different kinds of painkillers in his piss.

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Anderson’s elbow is still screwed up

November 19, 2009 – 5:02 pm by fightlinker

The UFC headliner trainwreck continues as Anderson Silva sends word that his recently surgerized elbow isn’t healing as quickly as originally expected.

“I went to the doctor who takes care of me in Brazil on Monday. I had surgery in the United States but there is communication between the two medical teams. To sum it up, some movements aren’t at the expected stage [of recovery],“ he revealed to Portal das Lutas.

“I’m crazy to come back, train hard and fight but some moves still hurt so much. I just came from jiu-jitsu training where I was teaching my students and I could not even make some positions with them,” the UFC middleweight champion added.

Fighters Only tacks on a guess that he’s got a month to heal up before his fight with Vitor Belfort - currently penciled in for UFC 109 in February - is in danger. Obviously this is a pretty shitty possibility, but Big Nog is being eaten by bacteria and Brock Lesnar’s insides have melted. It’ll take a lot more than the prospect of a fight maybe being pushed back a month to phase me now.

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JackalFights: Genki Sudo vs Jackson Page

November 19, 2009 – 12:29 pm by Reverend Clint

More Genki Sudo!

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