For some reason I can't help but laugh at the idea of telling Chael to keep his head down and shut up. He'll surely be back at some point because he's too interesting and too popular to not be, but yeah it all needs to settle down a bit. At least losing the likes of Rampage and King Mo isn't a big loss - I haven't seen the fight but everyone says their Bellator match was the snoozefest to end all snoozefests.
It was pretty bad. Unfortunately Mo lost a big step when he had a staff infection which nearly took his leg and has never really recovered. Hopefully he commits to pro-wrestling soon as that would really work out for him, there's not many places for him to work though. Rampage would be great for the UFC to have around as he's such an amazing character and personality. He has a remarkable story too having made it in Pride, and just kinda showing up there as a job guy who ended up making it under sheer charisma and insanity. Like Forrest Griffin and Sonnen they need guys like him because so many of the mid-current generation fighters are bland, charismaless robots like Weidman or Brian Stann. Or worse, Kenny Florian. K-Flo, what a boring douchebag. They have to have someone who can talk, who can sell fights. That's why they may deny it, but they are DESPERATE to have both those Diaz boys back.
Didn't Rampage and Tito do something to do with wrestling? I remember hearing that a while back but never bothered checking up on it. Yeah that's true. I guess that's why they're going hard on pushing the DC/Jones rivalry, just for a break from all the standard cutout fighters - not that 178 needs much extra hype, with the card as it is. Yeah, K-Flo bores me ****less every time he's on commentary. Nick making his comeback against Anderson Silva should be fun, despite the unavoidable thoughts that Anderson should probably just call it a day. I loved him but after an injury like his, I don't know.
He should beat Diaz, barring horrible leg accident. Diaz will want to stand and though he's a phenomenal boxer, his boxing is more patient point scoring than big power shots, so Silva should survive the pitter patter and then put him away quick by TKO. Rampage and Tito (and Mo) did some appearances for TNA which is just a car crash of a company so they were misused, forgotten about and then quickly pulled from the show when Bellator found out what a mess it all was. Bellator is owned by Spike which is TNA's network, so they have a working partnership, and all three are huge wrestling fans (and remarkably they all understand the importance of character, personality and selling your fight. Huh. Imagine that.) so they were happy to do it. Bellator won't let them do it anymore right now and Spike is dropping TNA so it looks like that the end.
Don't know if he'll ever manage to get back to his old level. I just hope he doesn't BJ Penn it, because seeing him against Frankie Edgar was just sad. Christ, that sounds terrible. I know loads of people in MMA are wrestling people and you'd imagine it's a pretty good mix - athleticism and charisma for a lot of them. I remember seeing Chael wanted to buy WWE, no idea if that's serious or feasible or whatever. I think Ronda spoke about doing something to do with them recently too.
"Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed US air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants but has ruled out any UK military action." Why?! Are we that spineless as a nation that we cannot stand up to a truly abhorrent organisation and have to let the Americans do it for us? How pathetic. I'm not a gung-ho trigger-happy kinda person, however what ISIS have been doing throughout Iraq has been appalling.
I'm all for zero foreign intervention. Look how well our last forays into the Middle East have turned out.
Just airstrikes is a pointless endeavor, let me tell you that much. Ground forces are the only way. And we are not about to go in again just yet. The bases (US and UK) are here (in Kuwait). And believe me, they are watching very closely. Kuwait certainly doesn't want any long distance action.
I think airstrikes on ISIS is actually pretty likely to have good results. This can't be compared to previous interventions in Iraq because this time we're actually on their government's side. And though you'd never be told this by our media, our forays into Iraqi Kurdistan have previously been pretty straightforward. ISIS aren't huge in numbers and should be easily taken care of.
So you're happy to sit around and twiddle your thumbs while men are decapitated and women raped and then decapitated on a massive scale? Plus, this isn't a ground invasion, but bombing the **** out of ISIS, as Joe says, could have a good effect. There's only like 500 of them when last I heard, although I guess their numbers may have increased by now.
They seem like a real life version of Ceasar's Legion from Fallout: NV.... Both organisations equally psychotic.
It is frightening how vulnerable ordinary people are to vicious madmen with an agenda. We only have to look at the Nazis in our recent history. There are times when you can't stand back and do nothing, but definitely don't think a ground war is the way. It's time for superior technology to reduce their numbers and weaponry.
I'll let you know what my man on the ground near Mosul thinks. Put it this way - his last message to me was below, so let's just say, I think he's pretty pleased with the airstrikes..... Dear leaders of the former 'Coalition of the Willing', Please send a succession of cargo planes laden with heavy weapons and advisors to the Autonomous Kurdish Government at your earliest convenience. They may be a nepotistic, corrupt gang of brigands; however, they are YOUR nepotistic, corrupt gang of brigands. Sincerely Yours Sir Arthur Chatsworth Blindingly-Obvious PS: The crazy Gang are about 15km away, so spit-spot, there's a good set of chaps. PPS: If you considering giving more weapons to the Iraqi 'Army', save the paperwork and issue it straight to IS. PPPS: I really don't fancy partying like it's 900 AD
clegg promises to legalise drug possession if lib dems are elected http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nick-clegg-says-lib-dems-4022692
Agree with Nick (did I just say that?!). Not sure about Class A drugs, but think drugs such as cannabis should be legalised and be taxed the **** out of.
