Cool! Looks like I have someone to root for on this season of The Ultimate Fighter.
Granted, I only go to my boy Fish at Th’Ink Tank these days, but I’ve heard good things about Twisted Sol.
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A belated happy 64th to Muhammad Ali.
Judge allows Mesi to return to the ring
Heavyweight Joe Mesi, sidelined since suffering bleeding on the brain after a 2004 bout, won a chance Monday to return to the ring when a state judge ruled his medical suspension expired when his Nevada boxing licence expired.
Wha-huh?! I have stated previously that I had high hopes for Joe Mesi and that I wished he’d be healthy enough to return to boxing, but getting to come back by way of a loophole the size of a Mack truck… Well… I just hope his brain holds up is all I’m going to say.
It’s interesting to me that Aimee Mann (on whom I have had a warm and fuzzy crush since the ‘Til Tuesday days) is obsessed with boxing. She really doesn’t seem like the type, which makes it all the more crush inducing, frankly.
Of course, she managed to incorporate her obsession into her latest disc, The Forgotten Arm (a boxing term, in fact).
I’m sure many of you figured he had faded into a halcyon semi-retirement of Total Gym hucksterism, anti-drug campaigning, and… um… praying after the demise of his Walker, Texas Ranger series. I’m doubly sure you all had figured Chuck had strayed far, far away from his Lone Wolf McQuade martial arts badassedness of yore.
Well, I’m here to set you straight, boys and girls.
Chuck Norris‘ return to glory was first hinted at when he became the subject of one of the most entertaining internet memes of the past ten minutes:
To prove it isn’t that big of a deal to beat cancer. Chuck Norris smoked 15 cartons of cigarettes a day for 2 years and aquired 7 different kinds of cancer only to rid them from his body by flexing for 30 minutes. Beat that, Lance Armstrong.
That was just the beginning, though. Now it has come to light that Chuck Norris is the driving force behind an all new form of ass kicking for entertainment known as the World Combat League:
There is currently no full-contact martial arts team sport in the United States. The WCL will be the only venue to offer the public full-contact martial arts fighting. There is literally no competition for the services and products the WCL will offer to the public. There is a huge demand for martial arts in the United states and the WCL will be the first sports league to offer the excitement and unpredictability of full-contact martial arts fighting.
Sure, Chuck is only a “suit” at the top of the WCL ladder. And yeah, it looks like the fighting is just glorified kick boxing — hands and feet only (stick to the UFC if you enjoy elbows, Muy Thai knees, and grappling). But they have women on the teams (WCL is a “team sport”… kind of like Davis Cup tennis…?), and the whole contest is supposedly set up to encourage action. In fact, there are penalties for being too passive or stalling.
Might be worth checking out.
One is only left to wonder if all of this is happening because of the fact that Chuck Norris is Dubya’s favoritest actor in, like, ever!
“The Contender” to begin second season on ESPN
“The Contender” is an unscripted drama about the lives of 16 professional boxers as they compete for the chance to change their lives. The show will air as part of ESPN Original Entertainment (EOE) programming and be executive produced by “Survivor” creator Mark Burnett, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Sylvester Stallone. Casting and production on the series, which will air in primetime beginning April 2006, will begin immediately.
Ecellent! I really enjoyed the first season — much more than I expected, in fact — so I’m happy to hear it will be coming back. As an added plus, I’ll probably be able to TiVo the show in the middle of the night, since ESPN tends to show everything half a dozen times.
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