FIRST DOWN
Frustrating Celtics game to watch.

Initially, the way that the came out of the gate was absolutely outstanding.  Quickly 9 points went on the scoreboard for Boston and zero remained for Philadelphia.  That was awesome, and in what felt like the first three minutes of the game, we scored 15 points.  Then the rest of the half played out, and things slowed down a lot.  They scored 38 total points in the first half, which was nothing compared to the opening minutes.

Then the rest of the game played out and it stayed close, Philly took a 10 point lead entering the fourth quarter, and the game was the C's climbing back.  But when the game got tied at 69, thats where the fireworks happened.  It was as if the players on both teams decided to play as if they were on fire in NBA Jam.  Entertaining as hell to watch, but scary to watch when Boston was on defense.

But the fact that the game came down to that screen call by Kevin Garnett is pathetic.  Such a ticky-tac call that shouldn't decide a playoff game.  Yeah, KG was moving and it was on paper the right call, but you can't have a play like that decide a playoff game.

Weak.

Side note: How weird was it to watch Rondo play with a headband again.  It's been years ever since that whole dispute where he would ear the headband with the upside down NBA logo and the league got pissed about it.  Just an interesting side note.

SECOND DOWN
Looks like Wes Welker isn't planing a hold out, which is awesome.  It goes without say that Welker is extremely necessary to the team and personally, I couldn't imagine next season without him.  Yes, we have like 30 receivers on our roster and we brought back players like Jabar Gaffney and Donte Stallworth who will fit the system and know the system, but Welker has been Brady's go to guy in the short yardage for the last 5 seasons.

We all know the drama.  He has earned a big contract.  But he is old and the Patriots do things the hard way when it comes to handing out contracts to players like Welker.  They took a long time to get a deal done with Vince Wilfork.  They took a long time to get a deal done with Logan Mankins.  It isn't a shocker to learn that they haven't given him the big contract that he deserves, but at least we heard Wes come on the radio yesterday and say that he wouldn't miss any games as a result.

I'm not worried about him missing mini-camp or pre-season games.  Honestly, I'd prefer it.  Less opportunity for him to get injured.  The last thing we need is a guy who is struggling to make an NFL roster ear-hole him in a pre-season game and give him a concussion that he is never the same from as a result, or something of the sort.  He knows the plays, he is smart enough to know to keep in shape, and he will be just as effective with or without the team in the offseason.

THIRD DOWN
I might make a little bit bigger of a deal that the Red Sox won 4 in a row, and that Jon Lester looked great in the process while throwing a complete game.  But honestly, that would be giving this team too much credit.

Not only that, but we have the Texas tough guy Josh Beckett on the mound tomorrow, the guy who is more concerned with how many off days he has left in the season rather than throwing the ball for strikes.  I wonder if he expects silence when he pitches, kind of like how golfers expect silence while they're in their backswings.

Either way, we better see the Bag Guy tomorrow night.  Or multiple of them.

FOURTH DOWN
Close your eyes and think about this question after you read it:  If you had $100,000 to blow, what would you spend it on?  Don't do one of those responsible things and say that you would invest it, or that you would wish for infinite wishes.  $100,00 to blow.  I'd probably buy a new car, travel and see various sporting events across the world, and buy a lot of toys (no, not action figures, but other little things that are expensive but unnecessary).

If your answer was a light heavyweight title belt from an average at best MMA promotion that couldn't hit its stride here in North America outside of Fedor, then wow, you got it.

For those unaware, M-1 Global is a mixed martial arts promotion based in The Netherlands.  They promote their own fights and co-promote certain fighters and fights as well.  You would know them best because any time Fedor fought with Strikeforce, you always saw the event titled "Strikeforce and M-1 Global present" and you saw Fedor wearing white gloves with the M-1 logo rather than the Strikeforce gloves.  Either way, a lot of this is irrelevant and I am getting away from myself...

So basically, TUF runner up and M-1 light heavyweight champion Vinny Magalhes have had an ongoing contract dispute.  Apparently, the promotion dropped the champion from their roster, and have asked for their title back.  His thought process is officially: if you want it back, place your bid.  He has put the title belt on EBay and put a starting price of $0.09.  Slowly, the bid started to climb and get as high as $14,000.  As of the time that this piece was written, the price was $99,999.00!

Yup.  That car I spoke of.  The traveling that I was going to do.  The sports events.  The toys.  Someone with $100,000 to blow is buying a bad promotions light heavyweight title fight.  I would be shocked to learn that Magalhes made that much money in his four fights with M-1. 

Lets put this into perspective: The UFC pay scale is 6/6, 8/8, 10/10.  Basically, if a new UFC fighter who isn't a top free agent gets a contract with the UFC, they make $12,000 with their first victory ($6,000 to show, $6,000 win bonus), $16,000 with their second victory, and $20,000 with their third victory.


A UFC fighter who won their first three fights would make $48,000, which is less than half of the price of the title belt.  Anderson Silva has made $200,000 in each of his last three fights.  Anderson Silva could take his latest paycheck and spend half of it on the belt.


Who the hell is dropping that kind of money on a worthless promotions title belt?  Unfortunately, due to the fact that EBay keeps the bidders virtually anonymous, we probably will never know.  Then again, its probably better this way.



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FIRST DOWN
UMass lacrosse got bent over big time by the NCAA tournament bracket committee.  The Minutemen are 15-0.  They are ranked second on the RPI standings according to the NCAA's website.  Also on the same site, first in the USILA Coaches poll and first in the Inside Lacrosse poll.

But, they got seeded as a six seed in the NCAA lacrosse tournament which starts this weekend.  FUCKING SIXTH.  How is that humanly possible?  They should have been either first or second.  I honestly don't know what was going through the NCAA's mind during the selection.  I had read on twitter from Marc Bertrand of 98.5 The Sports Hub and UMass alumni said that the explanation had to do with the fact that their RPI wasn't super high.  Well.. isn't that contradictory considering what it says on the website?

At the end of the day, UMass still can make noise and even win it all, but the path that they earned by going 15-0 was supposed to be the easiest possible and they got hosed.  Absolutely hosed.


SECOND DOWN
Who the hell let Jose Canseco sign with the Worcester Tornados?  I get it, the Tornados are a minor league ball club that isn't affiliated with MLB and need to get asses in the seats.  Really?  The best thing they could come up with is to sign the 47-year-old.

The problem with this whole thing is that it is ultimately a lose-lose.  If Canseco comes out and crushes 30+ home runs for the Tornadoes, well... he is playing against crappy players, no surprise there.  If he comes out and can't hit shit, well... he is expected to be washed up beyond belief.  Canseco can't win here.  There is no chance he does anything that impresses anyone to a point to where he gets signed to a minor league club thats affiliated with the MLB.

The guys a bum.  I wouldn't pay money to see it.  If they didn't charge anything to watch their games and they played a walkable distance from where I lived, I still probably wouldn't head down there to see him.

THIRD DOWN
Yesterday was a busy day with the site and I broke the realm of having four downs and added a fifth due to the death of MCA.  Well, MCA wasn't the only big name that passed away this weekend as Junior Seau committed suicide last week.

Generally, the first thing that you think of when you hear suicide is that the person was weak and that they took the easy way out.  I don't think that that is the case when it comes to Seau.  The guy was a bruiser in the defensive backfield and he played in the pre-concussion awareness era.  I don't doubt that a lot of times he played with a headache which was probably a mild concussion, and that the accumulation of big hits throughout his career really were the end of him.  Overall it was just an unfortunate bit of news.

Tiaina Baul "Junior" Seau Jr.

FOURTH DOWN
DAMN!  I said to you all yesterday that I bought tickets for UFC 148 and that it was going to be awesome seeing Chael vs. Andy, Urijah vs. Dominick, and Forrest vs. Tito.  Well.  Dominick Cruz done fucked that one up.

It was announced yesterday that Cruz tore his ACL and is out of his title fight against Urijah Faber at UFC 148.  God dammit.  I have a couple of things to say about this...

Considering that Cruz is going to be out now for at least nine months, I hope that the UFC keeps Urijah on the card and throws him a strong fighter and has it be for the interim title.  Someone like a Renan Barao, or even Michael McDonald.  McDonald is more of a stretch, but still, I want a title fight.

Why to I want a title fight?  Because of the god damned price of the ticket.  I paid a LOT for the tickets and while they're great seats, they were still in the lower half of the price of tickets.  Basically, I paid to see two title fights, I want to see two title fights, even if that means pushing the Aldo title fight up to this card, or having Carlos Condit defend his interim title.

I hope that the people who run the UFC are honest enough to realize that the price that they are charging deserves two title fights.


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Sox, C's, UFC on Fox 3, Mayweather vs. Cotto, MCA

I've been as busy as I ever have, but I found some time to write and rather than waste a lot of time doing nothing, I decided that I would write.  That... and I had a request from someone to "take down that fucking cat picture!"

Fine.

FIRST DOWN
I haven't been going out of my way to watch the Red Sox lately.  Sure if they're on and nothing else is doing, I'm watching, but I'm not actively seeking them out to watch, and if I am, they're more on to be background noise more than anything else.

But I tuned in in the 8th inning yesterday and saw the sac fly to tie the game at six in the 8th... and then finished watching the game nearly three hours later in the 17th.  Tough loss for the Sox.  That was one of the first games this season I was actively rooting for them to win.  I always want them to win, but I wasn't sitting there shrugging off plays at the plate and whatnot.

But actively watching the game and rooting.  It felt good to be able to do that.  Let's see if they can get me to do so again.  It probably won't be for a week or so, but thats fine considering the Celtics are alive and well in the playoffs.  And speaking of that...

SECOND DOWN
I didn't see the game on Friday night because I was traveling to my cousins in Connecticut since we were staying there since the UFC was in New Jersey (See third down).  But from doing scoreboard watching on the way down, it didn't look as though they were doing too well.  Sure, they were close the whole game and got the win in overtime, but still, we were expecting them to play like their heads were on fire based on how game two went and because the were getting Rondo back.

For whatever reason, they played like their hair was on fire for game three.  That was awesome.  I wasn't even sure if I was watching the same team from earlier in the season.  I realize that I've said I don't like this teams chances all season, and collectively I'm sticking to that, but at the same time I've said a bunch of times as well that even though I think that, I still want them to win.  They better close the series out on Tuesday, because it will give them much needed rest.

THIRD DOWN
I was at UFC on Fox 3 on Saturday.  It was my first time ever being at a UFC show after seeing too many to count on television.  In my life, I've been to two Bellator shows, three local to Boston shows, and now I've been to the UFC

First off, it was AWESOME.  Sure, I knew that it was a Fox card rather than a Pay-Per-View, and because of that walking into it I knew that I was going to see a lesser quality of fight card, but I didn't care.  I saw the value in the fights on the docket and didn't care whether or not this was a PPV.  Ever since I balked at getting tickets for UFC 118 in Boston, I said to myself that if the promotion comes back to the northeast that I would go to it.  It came back to the northeast-ish... so I decided to go.

The seats were great, the fights were great, Koscheck lost, and there were a lot of fantastic fights.  The only way that the whole thing would have been better would have been if Jim Miller didn't lose.  That sucked.  The crowd was about 80%-20% in favor of Miller, which was shocking to me because the fights were in his home state.  I was expecting everyone to be pulling for him, but then I realized and remembered that there will always be people drinking the hater-ade.  There were two... lets call them gentlemen... two gentlemen who we saw when we were walking back to the car storm out of the arena with matching jeans, wife-beaters, and clearly fake necklaces waiving their Affliction t-shirts around saying how Diaz was the best. 

But whatever.  I respect Diaz's fighting ability, but hate him and ultimately thing he is a punk.  So fuck Diaz, even though he won. 

So the night was great.  I look forward to taking the time to read about the event and watch the post fight press conference to hear exactly what was said because I know Dana said that Diaz would get a title shot if he won, but the problem with that is that he would have to wait a long ass time for the shot.  Who knows, but we'll see one way or another.  This night of fights is just a precursor for what is going down in July... yup... My girlfriend and I are heading to Las Vegas for UFC 148.  Her favorite fighter, and one of my favorites, is Chael Sonnen.  My favorite fighter,and one of her favorites, is Forrest Griffin.  And we both really like Urijah Faber.  The stars aligned for it, and we said screw it and got the tickets and hotel and plane tickets.  Honestly, I am rooting for Sonnen, but the fact that I will get to say I saw Anderson Silva fight is awesome.  Hopefully I get to say that I saw Anderson Silva lose for the first time in the UFC...

FOURTH DOWN
Since I was at the UFC fights, I didn't get around to watching Mayweather vs. Cotto, at least live.  I found a replay of it and watched it because I actually was able to avoid the results.

Now before I go and break down the fight, I will be the first to say and admit that the only time I watch boxing is when Mayweather or Pacquaio fight.  But I thought that Cotto won a couple more rounds than what the judges gave him.  Mayweather definitely won, but I thought that the way that Cotto pinned Mayweather in the corner in the second round was worth way more than the judges.  I guess I have the mindset of "octagon/cage/ring control" stuck in my mind as an MMA viewer, because at that point Cotto was dictating where the fight was.  Pinning your opponent in the corner has to be worth something, right?

But after about the 9th or 10th round, it was clear that the fight was won by Mayweather.  He was just too overwhelming.  I read someone tweet about how the jabs and shots thrown by Mayweather that don't look very good, are generally strong solid punches, but because of his speed it makes it look like he didn't put anything behind him.  And the way he uses that Philly Shell defensive style is insane.  Guy counters like a mother.  People who ordered that fight actually got their money's worth espescially because, and this is generally speaking, ordering a Mayweather or Pacquaio fight is spending $60 to watch them destroy the other fighter.

But ultimately, I can't wrap my head around the fact that he apparently made $47 million dollars for winning.  Sure, I get it, he is 43-0, hes really good and he is one of two fighers who makes more than a million dollars from boxing, but that is just too much fucking money.  I'm not trying to stir up the whole fact that MMA vs. Boxing monetary figures, but Anderson Silva made $200,000 after beating Yushin Okami at UFC 134 and the same price for beating Vitor Belfort and Chael Sonnen.  Now I realize that he is likely making money off of a certain percent of the the pay-per-view buys but still, that shit is crazy.  He was good, but I don't think he was $47 million dollars good.  But that's just me.

Either way, I think he is fantastic that he gets to spend the next couple of months in jail.  Good for him.  That fact has to be good for Justin Bieber's image.

FIFTH DOWN
I contemplated making this first down, but I thought that it would mean more of I put this in fifth down.  I don't do fifth down all that often, but when I do fifth down, it typically means something big.  Well, The loss that the music world suffered on Friday was so big, that I have to dedicate a down to Adam Yauch, who is better known as MCA of the Beastie Boys.

The Beastie Boys were one of my favorite bands growing up, and they will forever be one of my favorite regardless of the death of MCA.

A sad day for the music community.

Adam "MCA" Yauch

Lazy.

Yup.  I've been lazy.  I don't know what it is, but mentally I haven't been in the mood to blog as much as I have in the previous months.  I am probably just a little burnt out.  When Spring rolls around, there is more on my plate.  I get home later than normal, I've been busy on the weekends, and the writing for The MMA Corner has not slowed down.  Basically, I've had less time for blogging, and being lazy hasn't helped.  But, I wanted to get a post out there even if it wasn't as thorough as a regular post, for you.  Yup, you.  So here we go.





Also, the formatting on this post is a little off what it regularly is.  Sorry about that, I guess in my absence they changed a lot at blogger, which I don't like.

FIRST DOWN
The Red Sox.  I don't even know where to begin.  This team is so unlikeable it is ridiculous.  These owners are so unlikeable.  Everything right now is unlikeable, and I absolutely hate that.  I am a Red Sox fan.  I want to be able to tune in each night and watch them play and enjoy myself, but it is very difficult to do right now.

But there is something that I want to address which is bothering me the most right now, and it is how the celebration for the stadium is the most important thing going on in the organization.  News flash people, the team is 4-8.  But lets roll the red carpet out tomorrow and worry about the fact that Theo Epstein wasn't invited to the field today.  Um.  Who gives a shit?

Let's face it, the new ownership group has improved the stadium, a lot.  But it just doesn't cut it.  Sure, the HD screens all over the stadium are nice, but nobody goes to watch the game on the big screens, but the fact that anyone over six feet tall or over 250 pounds cannot watch a game comfortably is insane to me.  The fact that all of the seats down the right field line are not facing the plate is insane to me.  The fact that the ownership is hawking off $100 coffee table books, selling bricks, and squeezing off as much money out of the people as they can and still put an inferior product on the field with crappy wooden seats which are behind poles and expect people to be hunky-dory about it is insane to me.

The product on the field is a whole separate issue.  The trickle down effect of not putting out the extra $20 million or whatever it would have taken to get Teixeira has really shown.  They're trying to be a moneyball team even though they have extremely deep pockets.  The shit is just frustrating.  I feel as though I speak for a lot of true fans when I say I just want to be able to tune into a game and not have to roll my eyes give times an inning.

But they cannot really expect everyone to be happy about the current status of the Red Sox, can they?  Well, they will either way, because people will spend the money.

SECOND DOWN
The Bruins came out charging in that first period last night and outplayed the Captials by a mile.  At the end of the first period they should have been up at least 3-1, but Holtby stood on his head.  He really did.  The first goal of the game was a bad break for the Bruins.  That happens, nothing you can do about it.  But when Peverley faked Holtby out of his skates and put the puck 5-hole, I thought that was going to be the beginning of the end for the Captials.

But then the period ended, and the Bruins came out extremely flat from there on out.  They were unable to do anything and were outplayed and out-skated by the Capitals.  They just didn't look good.  Tonight could have been a statement game, and it wasn't.  They had good momentum from the first period, and the balloon just deflated.  The Capitals had cried about the Bruins being bullies and over-aggressive and whatnot, and the Bruins had a great chance to step on their throat, figuratively of course, and didn't do it.

Now we'll have to see at least a game six.  Not extremely happy about that.

THIRD DOWN
You can't really say "I told you so" because the Celtics still haven't won anything.  Yes, they took the Atlantic the other day, which is awesome, but I still don't know if they have the wheels to make it far in the playoffs.  I can see them handling the first round of games, but when it gets down to the last four teams in the East, with potentially having to go through the Bulls and the Heat, I just don't see it happening.

Again, I *want* the Celtics to do well.  I do!  But I just don't see it.  I wish the trade for Allen had gone through at the trade deadline, and how much better would it have looked if Avery Bradley had broken out on top of that.  But with those trades that didn't happen, I was happy to hear about them.  I wanted Pierce to stay.  I wouldn't have minded seeing KG and Ray Ray leaving, but one way or another I like hearing that Danny was active.  Obviously there is a lot going on in the front offices of all the teams and only so much information actually makes its way to the public, but I was under the impression that Danny sat around and did nothing at the deadline.  But hearing that he was active to the point where Ray Ray was called and told he was traded is something I liked to hear, because it meant he was trying to do something to improve the current roster.

Either way, I don't want to be Debbie Downer, but I don't see them going very far still.  I hope I'm wrong.

FOURTH DOWN
UFC 145 is tomorrow, and rather than let the event pass without a breakdown and a prediction, I will just breakdown the main event fight between light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and No. 1 contender Rashad Evans.

For those who don't know, this fight has a lot of back story to it and I'll try to summarize it quickly.  Evans and Jones were training partners at Jackson's MMA.  Evans earned a title shot at Shogun Rua's title after beating Rampage at UFC 114.  Shogun got hurt and needed a lot of time off.  Evans waited and a month before his fight, he injured himself, and in the meantime Jones beat Ryan Bader, and was offered the title shot.  Jones took it, dominated Shogun, and the controversy started because of the whole "teammates shouldn't fight teammates" thing.  They say they'll fight, but when Rashad was healed and ready to go, Jones' hand is bummed he needs surgery and time off.  Eager to fight, Evan takes a fight with Tito Ortiz, dominates him, and breaks his hand in the process.  Meanwhile, Jones' bummed hand isn't so bummed, and he defends his title against Rampage.  Now, Rashad can't fight Jones because his hand needs to heal, so the UFC gives Jones Lyoto Machida for the title, which Jones wins.  But while the Machida fight was a week or two away, Rashad gets Phil Davis.  Rashad wins, and finally it sets the two guys against one another.

Basically, this fight is a long time coming, and proposes a very interesting challenge for each fighter.  Rashad is probably one of the more athletic fighters in the UFC.  The guy has a great combination of speed, strength, agility, and endurance.  But so does Jon Jones.  Guy has an elite body for the sport, and possesses a lot of speed, strength, and agility as well.  But what Jones brings to the table is something that is difficult to account for, and that is the unorthodox strikes and the unpredictability of him throwing them.  "Bones" throws a lot of crazy spinning kicks and elbows, which have been devastating in the past.

It is definitely an interesting fight, but moreso a really exciting fight.  A lot of people didn't think that Lyoto Machida deserved to fight Jones, even though Machida took the first round from the champion.  But nobody can say that Rashad Evans does not deserve to be in this fight.  A lot of times promotions would run with the two former teammates back story and run with it, but to have the back story with two guys who honestly deserve to be there is a promotions wet dream.

But here comes the prediction.  I have gone back and fourth on this one a lot.  I hear a lot of people say you have to go with Jones until he can be proven that he will be beaten.  I definitely agree with what people are saying when they say that, however it is a bit odd because it is a way of saying that you're riding the bandwagon without really saying it.  I don't really like Jones too much.  I don't really like Evans too much.  I probably dislike Evans more in this fight, but I want him to win.  I feel he got dicked over a lot - by his camp, by the UFC (he waited a long time for the title shot, and it was quickly handed over), by Jon Jones (his hand was hurt, then magically fixed) - a that pent up anger/frustration/rage/everything has to boil over at some point, and it will give him the edge in this fight.  I am taking Rashad.  Not sure how, not sure when, but I am taking Rashad.


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Sox, B's, NFL Uni's, Bellator

Cannot deny it. I have been busy elsewhere. Writing and covering things for The MMA Corner has taken precedent. Read more about it on Fourth Down. My b. It is what it is.

FIRST DOWN
The Red Sox start up on Thursday, and the shenanigans have already began. But honestly, didn't we already see this coming? Look at how the end of the season played out last year, and ultimately we still never really got an apology from the players involved. At this point we never will, so we have to get over that unfortunately as fans.
But right now we have ourselves a thumb issue. The closer that we traded for who has a history of injuries, of course is injured. Hurt his thumb, and now we won't have him for the immediate future and speculation says he could be out for months, yes, months, plural. But if that isn't enough, Josh Beckett decides that his thumb has started hurting too. He found a way to conjure up an injury, probably because of the fact that the attention isn't on him. Hell, if anything, Beckett is either trying to get attention on him because of his diva-ness, or trying to come up with a fake injury to have an excuse just in case he doesn't perform well and can go back into the clubhouse and pound chicken and beer... or both.

Looks like we're going to have to have a closer by committee, or something. Who knows. Our bullpen sucks. I wouldn't be shocked to see Aceves be a starter by May and Bard closing games as a result. Who knows. Let's just hope that they got off to a better start than they did last year.


SECOND DOWN
B's have looked awesome lately, and I'm ok with it. After a frustrating as hell February, they have recovered nicely and looked great over the last couple of games. Fortunately, Turco has done a reasonably good job in giving Thomas a couple of days off. Well, perhaps it was likely the brightness of his goalie pads which blinded the other teams. Either way, he has done well.
I'm excited for the fact that they locked up their division and the #2 seed in the playoffs, because now the only way they would see the Rangers would be in the Eastern Conference Finals. The road right now looks good, and hopefully we can capitalize on things and keep the momentum going into the playoffs.

THIRD DOWN
Boy am I glad I'm not a Seahawks fan. Nike and the NFL revealed the new uniforms for the upcoming season of the NFL yesterday, and for the post part, there isn't much of a difference in the uniforms. See?
The Patriots uniform is pretty much the exact same, which is nice because it would be a pain in the tits to have to go out and get new uniforms because they looked really different.
But the new Seahawks uniform? Woof.
Now I will be the first to say that I am a huge fan of the University of Oregon football uniforms, but it is a bit much in the NFL. The Duck uniform's don't have a professional feel to them, and there is no need to have it because well, they're not professional! But it looks like Nike, who happens to be based in northwest Oregon, is trying to turn Seattle into the University of Seattle Seahawks, rather than the Seattle Seahawks.

Lame.

FOURTH DOWN
So lately I've been consumed in the world of Mixed Martial Arts. This could come as a surprise because recently, the UFC has been on a break and hasn't had an event since UFC on FX 2 on March 3rd. But, I have been busy with the sport. Bellator is back in full swing, and it has been really awesome, putting on some great fights.

I have been to a couple of local MMA shows and covered two for The MMA Corner. I went to Bellator 48 last summer as a fan, but I attended Bellator 63 as a member of the press, covering it for The MMA Corner. Let me tell you, it was awesome.


Covering Cage Fighting Xtreme in Boston and Plymouth was good. But being able to get up at Mohegan Sun Arena, go to the backstage area and grab a soda, a water, a bag of chips, some pizza, some wings, or a salad is absolutely outstanding. Sitting 15-feet from the cage watching national athletes compete is friggen awesome. I cannot wait until Bellator comes back to the northeast, because I am definitely getting in on that again.

And I would have had a post for you for Tuesday morning, but yesterday my free time was consumed on a deadline to get The MMA Corner Fighter Rankings out there. The rankings arn't hard to do, they're just very very time consuming. Because of that, it was close to 10 when I finished it, and by that time I was in no mood to be writing. Because of that, I lost a day here. My bad. Either way, the article and rankings came out good. Check it out.