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PuertoRican United States. Mar 25 2015 22:57. Posts 13039 | | |
In Search of Strange Brew... by Chuck Mindenhall
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."
Full article here: http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/3/24/8259545/in-search-of-strange-brew
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This is a great piece of MMA related content that took a long time to write. It's worth reading the entire thing, imo.
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TimDawg  United States. Mar 27 2015 00:00. Posts 10197 | | |
ehhhh i was hoping this was going to be about a cool new beer you tried...dammit |
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