Now. For the main event of the posting.
A week or so ago, I'm not exactly sure when, everyones favorite UFC president, Dana White, announced that at long last the UFC would absorb the smaller, bluer WEC into it's ranks, create two new championships bantam and featherweight inside the UFC, and also unify the WEC/UFC light weight titles.
Anthony Pettis and Benson Henderson are going to be fighting 16 December at the final WEC event, and the winner of that fight takes on the winner of the Gray Maynard versus Frankie Edgar battle on 1 January.
For the record, a month and some change out, I want to say this; Ben Henderson will fight Gray Maynard for the UFC title in that eventual match up, and Gray Maynard will come away with it. However, my championship bout calls have been pretty crappy, considering I called Chael Sonnen and Brock Lesnar to win. However, I don't think GSP will let me down. So hopefully, Gray Maynard won't let me down and win two in a row.
Jose Aldo is lined up to defend his title at Featherweight against Josh Grispi on New Years Day 2011. Aldos last fight was his finish of Ultimate Fighter Season 5 runner up Manny Gamburyan. So he is already the UFC featherweight champion.
Dominick Cruz is lined up to fight Scott Jorgensen also on 16 December. The winner of that will be the UFC bantam weight champion. Hooray for bantam weights.
Now for something completely different...
As I wrote about in a previous article, training for MMA is pretty demanding. Well, last night, I enjoyed a tasty salad. Seemingly, eating foliage and training to smash faces have nothing in common. Except for when you throw me into the equation.
After warming up, doing some shrimp moves, punching the crap out of some mitts, and looking hecka awesome doing it, we started to grapple. I was feeling fatigued, but couldn't figure out why. It would soon become crystal clear.
After grappling for a while, I was almost caught in an arm bar. However, I remembered my training, stood up, threw a leg over and spun out of it. My opponent gave me a leg, and I went for the heel hook. When I hit the ground, I lost all my breath and my throat tightened. (Afterthought: I would normally have knocked this out, because my Coach Jose taught me how to do heel hooks. However, this time the aforementioned queeziness led me to not get a good hold of the achilles tendon, and my other coach Curtis who was praising my arm bar defense started expressing disappointment that I "tried that heel hook shit again." My bad, Coach!)
You see where I'm headed with this?
Yeah, made a break for the front door, went outside and proceeded to lose my evening chow. After throwing a couple buckets of water on it, sipping back some fluids, I went and did the first half of Muay Thai practice, however, I got all light headed and had to sit out. I walked around and whatnot, and some lady who sits and watches her grown-man of a son practice was being a cry baby about me throwing up outside. I found humor in her discomfort. Oh well, what was she gonna do? Do I look apologetic?
Well. The moral of this story kids, is don't eat delicious and nutritious food 15 minutes prior to working out like you're some kind of monster. Take my advice. Eat an hour beforehand, and enjoy your non-gagging exercise. It will surely benefit you when the MMA-mom in scrubs is making faces at you, and you look like a jerk for laughing about it.
Thanks for reading! Check back for tomorrow mornings recap of the Ultimate Fighter! Tonight will be the wild card match up, Aaron Wilkinson and Marc Stevens are gonna start the shooting, after 40 minutes of antics in "the house". Can't wait, and neither can you because I say so! Stay tuned and read up.
if you jynx gsp............
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