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WEC 42: Miguel Torres slipped and fell, Brian Bowles gets lucky...

...simple as that.




Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to take anything away from Brian Bowles, the guy fought well, simple as that. He pressed the opportunity Miguel's fall gave him with a basic Brock Lesnar ground and pound. However, I will have to say that he showed little class reducing Miguel Torres' record to "just hype" in his words, further, Brian was getting a beat down before that slip (yeah it wasn't Bowles RIGHT as thate  Miguel haters want to say, it was the slip after the right), it was almost curtains for Bowles until Miguel slipped and fell. Did Bowles show respect, nope, acting as if his skill was what did it when it was purely his dumb luck.

Bowles, enjoy your time with that belt, Miguel WILL get it back very soon....

Miguel Torres wins again and remains WEC Bantamweight Champion!

Wednesday night WEC card in Las Vegas was phenomenal. But the championship fight between Miguel Angel Torres of East Chicago, IN and Manny “The Mangler” Tapia of Chino, CA was the main event and was an exciting fight.

Miguel had control of the fight for the whole round and a half it lasted, Tapia was clearly outclassed on every level. Tapia tried to keep the fight standing, as Miguel being a Black Belt under Carlos Gracie in Brazilian Ju Jitsu would have ended anything on the ground in a matter of seconds. But the strategy merely delayed the inevitable.

In the middle of round 2, Tapia was knocked down one, a few seconds later, he was knocked out by the champ. Great fight.

O.K., I’ve had it, MEDIA: Stop de-feminizing and animalizing SERENA WILLIAMS!!!

O.K., I am about to go Super Saiyan 5 on media outlets. People, Serena Williams is a damn good tennis player, when she beats people, it is because SHE IS BETTER than they are, SIMPLE AS THAT. She is NOT some ferocious monster!

I read this article amongst many that ticked me off, here is a quote:

“But the Serb added that when Williams gets up a head of steam - complete with assorted primal screams in the heat of battle - it's not a pretty sight.

"I'm glad she was calmer, and she didn't scream too much," Jankovic said of Williams, who denied that she smashed a racket on national television and earned a warning after being broken for 5-3 in the final set.”

This is too much. The article was title: “Williams fury fuels fear for Jankovic” Main stream media, please stop de-feminizing and animalizing Serena Williams. I have heard all those female tennis player grunt and groan as they strike the ball, why is it all of sudden “scary” when a Black woman does it? I’m just saying…

I have a horrible secret…I don’t know ANYTHING about sports!

Yes, Yes, it is my shame :-(

I know, being a male, especially a brotha and a Marine, I’m supposed to have all kind of stats about Basketball, Football, etc., etc.

Fact is aside from being a San Francisco 49’ers fan (meaning that I root for the team, watch a game here and there, and talk crap to the Dallas Fans for shear enjoyment if my boys beat them) and aside from having been a Michael Jordan fan (as required of any citizen of Chicago), I generally am clueless.

This is a serious handicap people. Sure, I have the wisdom of Zehuti (As per the Wizard SHAZAM for all of his chosen champions), Heck, I can discuss world affairs, theology, sociology, philosophy, world history, etc. with the best of them (in fact, I hope to become that annoying guy on PBS that they call to pontificate about ancient civilizations and how they would have endured if they had the internet) but ask me whose the best college football player, and I have no choice but to nod my head and act like I know and actually be very silent (which is very unusual for me if you couldn’t tell).

Today my boss asked me about the Bulls chances to make the finals, I just a few seconds earlier listening to NPR found out that they were in the finals, just said “Yeah, this could be their year”, then he went on about stats about people I hadn’t even heard of, yesh. All I could say was that “John Paxon has really done a good job” (Since I knew who HE was from the Jordan days and also had just heard on NPR that he was GM, thank good for public radio!). So after I acted like a client was holding for me, I tipped away.

Help a brotha out people, is there a book I can get? Does ESPN have a blog I can peak at? Suggestions? Heck, when we get to Liberia I’m going to have to appoint a Secretary of Sports to keep me up to speed with the World Cup!