still can't believe it myself

just in case i haven't talked or emailed to some of you in while, i thought it was high time i come out of the closet - about loving ultimate fighting. it's soooooo cool! i LOVE it!! i still can't believe i am so into it. this is even more surprising than my dear friend lb becoming a football maniac, and i was pretty surprised when that happened.

that said, did anyone else watch the pay per view of the georges st. pierre/matt hughes fight? we did and it was great! gsp kicked matt hughes' holier-than-thou ass, which you can see happening in the picture. matt hughes is really annoying but one has to give him his due, he's a really fantastic fighter and beating him in the second round (of five) and dominating the whole fight like gsp did is no small accomplishment. not only was hughes beaten, but at his own game, too... gsp completely out-wrestled one of the best wrestlers in mixed martial arts today. and (does this feel like a ginsu knife commercial? "but wait, there's more!") i got to watch gsp prance around practically naked which is always a plus; the boy is seriously smoking hot. he also seems like a pretty genuine and down to earth person, which i realize also outs me as a freedom hater, seeing as how his first language is french, but i've hated freedom for a long time now, so i can handle a bit more. the lack of a link to matt hughes' web site wasn't an oversight, it was on purpose, just in case you were wondering.

the other big fight of the night was the chuck liddell/wanderlei silva fight. silva has fought in the pride league, in japan, one of their best fighters; this was one of his first ufc fights. liddell won the fight, but silva really made him work for it, and drew says it wasn't a fight that was utilizing silva's style (i.e. explosive) to its fullest. i am by no means an expert on mixed martial arts, but i am enjoying learning. it was nice to finally see a liddell fight, too, as he's the one who got me interested in ultimate fighting. when anti-flag played on jimmy kimmel live , chuck liddell was one of the guests. we didn't know it at the time because we were on the other side of the stage, but chuck came out to hear them play and justin said after they finished the first song he looked to that side and chuck put his fist over his heart and gave it a friendly shake in his direction. after the flag got back on the road we went back to our hotel and watched the show, and i at least was curious about chuck liddell after hearing justin's story (drew was already an aficionado, so he was curious too, just not like me, being clueless and all.) apparently he was an accounting major in college! it was so funny! he seemed like a pretty cool guy, and he'd given anti-flag the ultimate fighter version of a high five, so i was intrigued. and thus my odyssey into the world of mixed martial arts began...