Hello again, friends in the world of MMA. It's been a little while since I've posted, so dejected was I at the debacle that was Abu Dhabi; Matt Hughes overwhelmed an adequately skilled but physically outclassed Renzo Gracie, Frankie Edgar won a moderately entertaining kickboxing match against BJ Penn and Anderson Silva found a way to translate his incredible mastery of the sport into a thoroughly boring experience in his match against Damian Maia (yaaaawn)-a promotions nightmare for Dana & company, as this event was supposed to launch their move into the international big time. Can anyone say FLOP?
Redemption came, sort of, via the WEC event that soon followed, in which Jose Aldo showed signs of being the best pound-for-pound in the sport, in spite of his reluctance to finish a limping, virtually immobilized Uriah Faber that seemed there for the taking. Manny Gamburyan made us take note when he took out a Mike Brown who is quickly getting introduced to the school of hard knocks and proving that when it comes to MMA, fortune can be a fickle companion indeed.
Dana and his cronies are really dangling us by the ankles now, seeing how many pennies and lintballs come out of our pockets. Quite frankly, I'm starting to smell a bit of a market saturation. If you're going to make me shell out a monthly c-note so you can get your lady a new set of wheels, you better start blowing my socks off. But, for this month, you've got me by my MMA loving privates, as my curiosity compels me to see, firsthand, what will happen with the Machida-Shogun rematch. Tough one to call, but I say Machida will figure out how to win this one more decisively, if only to prove to himself (and the public) that the belt belongs on his waist. As far as Koschek-Daley is concerned, it's one of those situations in which I think Josh's well rounded arsenal will allow him to pull it out, but boy, would I love Daley to beat his ass, which is far from being out of the question. Until next time.
