Posts Tagged ‘mma’

This week’s Photo Friday pic comes from the Throwdown IV MMA event in East Peoria Saturday night. We were treated to almost 30 great fights, and my friends and I had a great time.
This is the third Throwdown event I’ve attended at the East Peoria Event Center, and the event gets a little better every [...]

The UFC made this video called Randy Couture Divorce Attorney for one of their award shows, and it’s worth a laugh:

Of course, this was intentionally funny. Another MMA artifact I can’t help but laugh at is this Bas Rutten commercial the Cartoon Network has been running to remind kids to wash their hands to knock [...]

The Main Event!
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.
I attended Throwdown 3 Saturday night, a mixed martial arts event in East Peoria featuring 20 fights. This time I had a seat at a VIP table, putting me just ten or fifteen feet back from the octagon. What a blast!
I took a handful of pics with my cell phone [...]

I’m getting tired of elitist pricks like this guy shitting on mixed martial arts and its fans because somehow MMA is inferior to or is more primitive or brutal than boxing.
For starters, his article makes it clear that he has little or no understanding of what’s happening within the octagon. If he were a true [...]

I didn’t expect much out of the mixed martial arts matches when I hit Throwdown 2 in East Peoria Saturday night, but there were some great fights. I had a good view of the cage, and with 15 fights and 2 more female fights, it was an exciting evening. I did take a few pictures, [...]

I’ve become addicted to The Ultimate Fighter. I can’t stand most reality shows, but this one’s pretty simple: get a bunch of thugs together in one house, watch them screw with one another, then watch them vent their frustrations in the ring. No getting voted off islands, no silly games for immunity, no ridiculous challenges, [...]