ok, here we go....
this weekend is gonna be big!(well for me) we got on saturday night UFC 111, my boy george "rush" st. peierre against dan "the outlaw" hardy. a good scrap if your watching the hype build up. st. peierre should smack this brit around as hardy is nowhere near the level that our canadian boy is at, but..........george has shown, in the past a relaxed attitude towards opponents that are considered HUGE underdogs and on one ocassion been the victum of what many consider the biggest upset in mma history when at UFC 67 an underdog named matt "the terra" serra whumped st. peierre's ass. serra was a huge long shot in that fight and drove the bookies and betters bonkers in vegas. i was one of the very and i mean very few that gave matt serra a shot at winning. if you are looking at the odds in vegas right now on the fight and have a few extra bucks that you might want to blow, bet it on hardy! the pay off will be HUGE!!!! if the brit can pull it off.
the second big of the weekend is WRESTLEMANIA 26. i know i know, wrestling? come on, what??? hey i've been a wrestling fan for as long as there has been a wrestlemania! i live for this shit! i can't tell you how much influence wrestling
has had on my fighting life. i dreamed of being a wrestler all my life but instead chose the "real" world of combat sports in the form of professional kickboxing and boxing. but i always thought of myself as a preformer going out there and giving the crowd what they wanted to see...an action packed match. hell even my barber is an ex wreslter, "terrible" terry morgan! me and him have some great conversations when i go visit him and he's always blown away by how much of a student of the history and backstage stories i am. but the BIG reason this weekend is so special for me is that on this particular westlemania there is a return to the ring from a very famous canadian and a hero of mine...Bret "Hitman" Hart. this guy is my absolute hero and i would probable gush like a little school girl if i ever got to meet him! he represents our great country everywhere he goes is an embassador of good will and an all around nice guy. i thought when he got into the hall of fame years ago, that that would be the last time anyone ever saw of the hitman.
so in ending this blog post, welcome back bret! in a world that has forgot what it was like to be a kid and have a hero. it is great that a retired professional kickboxer can sit back on a sunday evening with my son and watch a hero step into the ring one more time and remember why i ever wanted to step into a squared cicle in the first place!
until next time....
hands up, chin down, and keep on fighting!
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