Ultimate Fighter Thoughts

Lately I’ve been watching more and more Mixed Martial Arts fights and related shows. The action, excitement, and varying styles are all very compelling. MMA has definitely already replaced boxing as my favorite “fighting sport” and it’s working its way up the list of traditional sports too. I’m not to the point of ordering PPVs yet but I try to catch all the free stuff I can.

Last night I caught the first episode of Ultimate Fighter 6. I’ve only caught bits and pieces of previous seasons but last week I got hooked watching a marathon of Season 5. So needless to say I’ve programmed my MythTv Box to record every episode of this new season.

For those who’ve never seen Ultimate Fighter the show is a competition for upcoming fighters competing to get a UFC contract. The sixteen fighters are split into two teams who are captained/coached by two established UFC stars. This season’s coaches are Matt Serra(Season 4 winner and current UFC Welterweight Champion) and Matt Hughes (a former World Welterweight Champion) who have an upcoming PPV fight.

So far I’ve liked what I’ve seen from the first episode. Hughes and Serra seem to genuinely dislike each other. But as of the first episode it’s been hard to decide which team I’ll root for because both the coaches seem a little douchie. Of course a lot of that could be prefight hype, who knows.

I do know that I have a new favorite fighter though, Mac Danzig. He is a no nonsense, bad ass, well rounded VEGAN fighter. Unfortunately you don’t see a lot of vegetarian or vegan world class athletes, so it’s cool to see one who is such a bad ass! Hopefully he’ll end up being the next Ultimate Fighter.

Written by Joe McCurdy on September 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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New Video site from NBC

NBC Universal’s new online video site DotComedy.com seems to be pretty interesting. It contains a lot of varied comedic content that NBC Univeral owns. So you can find old sitcoms (Leave it to Beaver, The Munsters), stand up, “viral clips”, and clips from current NBC shows. They even have some of their own “digital shows”.

Since they actually own the content and they’re going for a niche market, this site might actually be able to make some money for NBC.

Written by Joe McCurdy on November 9th, 2006 with no comments.
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Nice site for boxing history

If you are a fan of boxing like I am, you should check out a site I found called BoxRec.com.

BoxRec.com is a nice place for boxing info and history. They have a wiki for info about indivdual fighters which is pretty cool. They also are attempting to record in their database pretty much every professional boxing match that has ever happened. They use the fights that they have in their database to produce their own set of computer generated rankings. The site has rankings both current an all time for every weight class which are updated as new fights are put in.

It’s also a pretty good site for boxing news/info/upcoming schedules. So check it out if you’re a boxing fan!

Written by Joe McCurdy on August 24th, 2006 with no comments.
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