Something I don't understand: Most pro athletes have the sense to retire before they hit 40 or around that age. Hell, gymnasts are too old for their sport before they're legally allowed to buy lottery tickets. Why are these MMA guys fighting into their fifties in the most brutal sport there is? Isn't it ridiculous enough when pro wrestlers do it?
That was a circus fight, plain and simple. It's very rare for fighters to keep going into their 40's, and I don't think there's ever been a UFC fighter (at least in the modern era) who competed in their 50's. Randy Couture fought in the UFC until he was 47, but he's Randy Couture.
Athletes in team sports often don't get a chance to decide if they retire. When they get older and lose a step a younger guy will take their spot, there's not much choice there. Look at the NHL, Chara is starting to get dangerously close to the age where he will be replaced if he doesn't retire. Athletes in the MMA, boxing, etc are different because they contract out each fight and aren't managed by a larger more powerful, more cohesive entity.
Yeah, Shamrock looked good, right up until he entered the ring. Those "shoots" he made looks comically slow... and any MMA fighter worth their salt would have been able to sidestep them easily. Never mind the fact he had that RNC in TIGHT... and couldn't finish it. Good on Kimbo for not tapping, but holy shit that whole fight looked like Geriatric Bum Fights.
I've seen old men scrap in beer league hockey. There's no glory to be had in two guys over 40 trying to hurt each other. It just ends up being sad and depressing.
Can't you just let them try to keep proving shit while we feel that deep well of sadness and laughter crop up at the same time and turn to a disgust?
I do, then I laugh when the old guy on my team complains of being sore later because of the stupid thing he did. Same thing goes for young guys or anyone who fights in beer leagues. Never understood the point of it. They'd never act like that off the ice but on the ice they're a tough guy out to prove a point.
I've been playing out since December, played hockey since I was five and been coaching the last three years. Fighting in beer leagues is for guys who think they have something to prove when there's nothing to gain. I promise no teammate has ever gained respect for someone because they got in a fight. What normally happens is an eye roll and oh well. You want to standup for yourself and your teammates go score a few goals, otherwise shut up and be normal, we all have jobs the next day and the girlfriends/wives couldn't give less of a fuck. This isn't high school where if you kick someones ass the girls are impressed and you get to second base. This is adult life where no one gives a fuck.
The only time I've seen it be acceptable is when you have that all-star wannabe that's hitting the can-barely-skate-never-mind-play-hockey guy too hard and too often, because he can, and then the REAL tough players step up and teach him a lesson. Those guys either settle the fuck down or never come back.
Battlebots is back on tv. Too much production and not enough of the robots actually fighting, but it's still nice to see incredible robots going at it again.
I have a hard time sleeping at night during the summers, and as such, find myself watching anything and everything on Netflix to cease boredom. Tonight's adventure was Zombeavers. It was campy, full of shitty acting, utterly predictable .... yet, highly entertaining. If you take it for what it is, a throwback to 80's B-style horror (there was a litany of homages to Friday the 13th, Creepshow, among others...), you will find a movie that will entertain you for an hour and fifteen minutes. The movie is exactly what it says: beavers get infected with toxic waste and turn into zombies, attacking a group of coeds who are having a weekend out on the lake. For a 1:00 am showing, it serves it's purpose. Oh, and John Mayer, of all people, makes his feature film debut in a truly hilarious way.
Yes, agreed. I just wanted to see robots fuck each other up. Who doesn't? This was my choice last weekend after my girlfriend said she "didn't care" what we watched. It was perfect.
I have to disagree here. I may not like Joe Buck a lot for anything other than baseball but Holly Sonders trumps any complaints about their coverage. It was different, for sure, but I think that is what made it good. Golf needs something to keep it fresh along with young talent. Tiger, even though I continue to hope he can turn things around, just isn't enough of a story to carry golf anymore.
She's hot, and knowledgeable, no doubt. What pissed me off was the camera coverage, most of the time, they were looking at empty fairways and greens. You had no idea where the ball was. It was irritating. And for the record, Joe Buck sucks at everything but baseball. Love him at that, but he can go die in a fire for everything else.
It was odd, for sure. But, that atrocious glowing hockey puck that Fox did many years ago? Anybody remember that? Commissioned by Fox from a company that, because of that, went on to develop the first down line in football. That "score bug" that shows score, time or score, outs, etc? From the Fox Box. I can't imagine watching a game without either the score bug or first down line.