May 28 2006
UFC 60: Something doesn’t seem quite right
[tag]UFC[/tag]Okay so yes Matt Hughes beat Royce Gracie hands down but was the fight maybe staged? Gracie was obviously not fazed by Hughes’s ground & pound and actually got up smiling after big John stopped the fight. What was with that? Why was he smiling? Was it all just a big publicity stunt? If I was Gracie and had a call like that go against me then I’d be pissed especially if it didn’t prevent me from being able to smile.
It reminds me of a Renegades (no closed fists above the shoulders) fight I once saw where one guy was “ground & pounded” with open handed slaps, I think the receiver was laughing about it actually but the referee stopped the fight and gave it to the person doing the slapping! The crowd almost erupted into an all out brawl between the two gyms that coached the fighters, it was actually a bit scary as I was actually there and not watching it on TV.
Cropcop looks like he might join UFC (http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=6424)
You are the only person (besides my wife) that may find this interesting so I passed it on.