UFC

After my day out at the Health Expo (see pervious post) I went over to my good friends Dakota Bubble and Emperor EJ’s place to watch UFC, Emperor EJ’s friend R came this time. I was super excited to see Jim Miller. 

Jim Miller is a special fighter to me, he’s a red head, which I think are hot, and the first time I went to Boston Pizza for a UFC fight with Emperor EJ and Dakota Bubble he was in the first fight. Saturday night he was fighting Nate Diaz for the chance to fight against the belt older of their weight class. If you couldn’t tell already I only have half knowledge of the UFC, I don’t get into all the back story I just like to watch the fights and so far all I’ve figured out about weight classes is that the heavy weights are like slow moving tanks and the bantam weight class most of the guys there need a burger. 

The fight was actually on Fox, but Dakota and Emperor don’t have cable so we live streamed it. What I liked about live streaming it now is that during the commercials on TV on UFC.com they now have trivia and tweets from the fighters before the fight. The tweets though should only be on there during the first commercial since the same tweets are shown over and over and over again, the trivia is fun though. 

This is also the third fight we’ve watched from the Fox network and I have some helpful hints. First the Statue of Liberty is in New York not New Jersey, which is where the fight was taking place, and I’m a Canadian looking at that and going WTF? I can’t even imagine what people in the states were saying. If the stadium that the fight is in isn’t as big as some of the stadiums that the championship fights are happening don’t do a fly over shot from so far out, zoom in a little so the stadium doesn’t look so tiny. And my number one issue with Fox Sports which is about to drive me bonkers, could someone at the network go out to any office or computer supply store and get the announcers sitting behind a desk some mic stands! Seeing these guys sitting around a desk and holding their own mics just drive me nuts! Either that lose the table and make them stand it would look less pathetic.

Unfortunately Miller didn’t win, it was a good fight though & Nate Diaz was the first person ever to submit Miller and how he did it was both impressive and gross, Miller accidently bit his tongue while he was being submitted.

Fun night with friends all around.