In his ubiquitous Las Vegas gossip column, Norm! reveals that his sources indicate that none other than Jack Freakin’ Nicholson could be in attendance at UFC 91:
Maybe it’s on his “bucket” list.
Jack Nicholson, a ringside fixture for decades at the biggest boxing matches in Las Vegas, is rumored to be making an appearance at Saturday’s …
Hopefully the producers of “The Ultimate Fighter” can pull themselves away from their semen-eating and towel snapping to check out HBO’s new online series “The Ring Life”. Here’s the description from HBO:
The series is inspired by the real lives of eight hopeful boxers with dreams of becoming champions. Each of the promising contenders will …
Jeff Monson is one of our favorite fighters here at SAVSCI and generally one of the most unique and intelligent guys in the sport. He had some choice quotes on Elite XC and the Lesnar/Couture fight in an interview with Fighters.com:
First, the human bulldozer opines on EliteXC’s demise:
I think Elite’s going under is good …
Sometimes the sheer cluelessness of the online MMA media bottom feeders and the Dana White nuthuggers that they serve borders on hilarious. MMA Frenzy took the time to do a lengthy post about Affliction President’s Todd Beard’s criminal rap sheet, concluding with the assessment that he’s an “unsavory character”.
Then the UFC loving noobs in …
The lawsuit against Randy Couture is getting more mainstream press than Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta’s Kim Couture’s restraining order against Affliction’s Todd Beard. Here’s a mention in the Dow Jones website ‘Marketwatch’–for those of you out there whose concept of an ‘investment’ is $20 on Powerball tickets, Dow Jones also owns the Wall …
From the excellent website MMA Payout:
According to their report, Couture is in the process of suing Affliction and the temporary restraining order is part and parcel of that. Also, they’re being represented by one of Zuffa’s big legal guns–one who represented the company in their legal battle against Randy Couture. You can likely …
Dana White plugs UFC 91 on Jim Rome’s ESPN show. Rome, incidentally, is one of the few mainstream sports journalists that “gets” MMA:
One thing about covering the fight game–its never boring. No matter what happens that makes us think that we’ll never have to report a stranger story then something happens to top that. We have no clue what the backstory here is, so we’ll just report the facts–or as close to the ‘facts’ as …
The Vancouver Sun has a big article about Randy Couture focusing on his preparation for the Brock Lesnar fight. Probably nothing you haven’t read elsewhere but this quote was interesting:
“It’s hard to find guys that are going to simulate guys like Brock or a guy like Tim [Sylvia]; they’re very unique in their skill …
Amir Sadollah is out of UFC 91 due to a leg infection; the preliminary bout between Dustin Hazelett and Tamdan McCrory has been moved to the main card as a replacement:
UFC 91 main card participant and “The Ultimate Fighter 7″ winner Amir Sadollah (1-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has been forced out of his UFC 91 …
