On Sunday, July 1, I will be flying back to Seoul, South Korea, for the first time in 8.5 years. I will be in Seoul until July 31.
While I have a packed schedule ahead of me, I am interested in meeting up with those of you who are still in Korea. I'll still be watching UFC events while I'm in Korea, so if you want to watch those with me, we can do that and drink some beers and talk some shit (UFC starts at 7am/8am in Korea).
In regard to the UFC threads, I'll try to post them all (5 in total) before I leave to Korea. Nothing should change in regard to me being active during UFC events, aside from not being able to play in DraftKings events due to the country restriction.
Ten years after the original Ultimate Fighter television show put the UFC on the map, one of its cast members fell off. So … whatever happened to Jason Thacker, the quirky Canadian that trained out of the old abandoned truck stop?
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I’ve long been fascinated with Jason Thacker. It’s very possible I’m the only one. Why? It’s sort of complicated. I suspect it stems from overthinking a word like "belonging." In the short history of the UFC, he was a person that ended up in the exact wrong place at the exact right time. Or maybe it was the right place at the wrong time. Whatever it was, man did he catch a lot of hell just for being there. And back then, being there meant something. Remember that?
The original Ultimate Fighter began airing in January 2005, and has long since been accepted as the jolt the UFC needed to break through. If Stephan Bonnar and Forrest Griffin hadn’t had that rapturous, go-for-broke brawl on April 9 in the finale, there might not be a UFC today. That fight hit the broader living room like a magic potion. It was the culmination of something, but it doubled as a real-time epiphany — suddenly mixed martial arts was being translated for people who didn’t speak the language. All at once, it was as if light broke over the taboo.
People got it. Dana White later called it Zuffa’s "Trojan Horse."
If you're into grappling, you'll probably enjoy the videos that are released on BJJ Scout's YouTube page. The majority of the videos on the page are just BJJ videos, but it looks like the channel will start doing MMA breakdowns too.
| NO JUDGES | SIX MATCHES | 20 MINUTE ROUNDS | NO POINTS | ONLY THE BEST |
The official Metamoris 3 stream is 50% off until January 31st ($10 instead of $20).
Date: Saturday, March 29th, 2014
Metamoris 3 commentators: Kenny Florian and Jeff Glover.
Fight Card
Eddie Bravo vs. Royler Gracie
Rafael Mendez vs. Clark Gracie
Keenan Cornelius vs. Vinny Magalhaes
Dean Lister vs. Renato "Babalu" Sobral
Gui Mendes vs. Samir Chantre
Zak Maxwell vs. Sean Roberts
