1000th Post Special!

Since it's the last day in January, I'd figure that it is best to post my 1,000th entry. Since BELLATOR 87, is on tonight, I thought about it.

Here is Mo Lawal's return to MMA, in stunning knockout fashion last Thursday night at BELLATOR 86:

All hail King Mo!

ONE Return of Warriors This Saturday (Friday Night in US/Canada)!

Like K-1 kickboxing, ONE Fighting Championship is back for their first event of 2013, with "Return of Warriors" on Saturday. There will be a title up for graps as Filipino featherweight champ Eric Kelly will take on URCC lightweight champion Honorio Banario. The winner will become the first ever ONE featherweight champion.

Also on the card is a #1 flyweight contender bout between Shinichi Kojima and Rey Docyogen. In addition, a bantamweight eliminator and a four man Malaysian national championship tournament in featherweight will also be showcased.

 

CARD
Featherweight championship

(146.2 lb/65.8 kg)

Eric Kelly v Honorio Banario

 

#1 Flyweight contender

(126 lb/56.7 kg)

Rey Docyogen v Shinichi Kojima

 

Bantamweight Grand Prix Eliminator

Final

(136 lb/61.2 kg)

Thanh Vu v Raymond Tan

 

Malaysian National Featherweight Championship Tournament

(146.2 lb/65.8 kg)

Raymond Tiew v Melvin Yeoh

AJ Lias Mansor v Jian Kai Chee

 

Live Saturday (Friday night here in the states) on Pay Per View and live streaming via ONEfc.com! 

K-1 Korea Max '13: First K-1 Event of the Year!

K-1 is back for their first event of 2013, which includes an eight-man tournament, a women's superfight, and an MMA superfight as well!

CARD

8-Man Tournament

Woon Pyo Ha Lee v De Jeng Chang

Sung Hyun Lee v Shingo Garyu

Kwan Woo Kim v Jedsada Pongteong

Woo Young Cho v Rahi Vizard

 

Women's super fight

Ji Won Lee v Ekaterina Vandaryeva

 

MMA Super fight

Dong Sik Yoon v Ryo Takigawa

 

 

This card will also coincide with a Korea v China super series featuring eight fights in all eight classes. The card should be streamable on the net. K-1.tv.





BELLATOR MMA 87: Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinals

It's the return of the lightweight quarterfinal tournament beginning Thursday night. Four great matches featuring your favorites, including the returning Lloyd Woodard and Ricardo Tirloni. Guillarme DeLorenzi will now have a different opponent as Saad Awad will replace Patricky Freire. Patricky will not fight due to knee injury. Very unfortunate, I was looking forward to his return.

CARD

Lightweight tournament

Quarterfinal

(155lb/69.75kg)

Ricardo Tirloni v Will Brooks

Thiago Michel v Alexander Sarnavskiy

Lloyd Woodard v David Rickels

Saad Awad (replacing Patricky Freire) v Guillarme DeLorenzi

 

Always remember: CARD SUBJECT TO CHANGE.  

 

 

LIVE on SPIKE Thursday night. 

EUROVISION LVIII Update: Esma for Macedonia, Georgia and G:Son and More

The Gypsy (Roma) invasion to EUROVISION continues. The Gypsy queen Esma Redzepova, at 69, will team up with Vlatko Lozanoski Lozano for a song that both will represent Macedonia at EUROVISION LVIII in May.

Esma and Vlatko were chosen by the ESC broadcaster in Macedonia to represent FYROM at Malmo. For the last couple of years, Macedonia in ESC was represented by Kaliopi Bukle, who last year went to the final at Baku with "Crno i Belo." Esma's masterpiece, "Caje Sukarije" was featured in the soundtrack to the 2006 film, BORAT: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakstan. However, it was without copyright notice that she sued Fox and the record label of the movie's soundtrack.

Roma (Gypsies) are no stranger to EUROVISION. Gipsy.cz, who was the last representative for Czech Republic in 2009, had zero points on their performance of their song, "Avec Romale", thus the Czech ESC has since withdrawn. Last year, Sofia Marinova (Bulgaria 2012) almost put Bulgaria in the final for their second time in their short ESC history with "Lubov bez Granici," but lost out in a tie with "Stay" by Touraj "Tooji" Keshtar (Norway 2012).

Elsewhere, Georgia selected their entrant: Nodi Tatishvili and Sophie Gelovani. Both will collaborate on an untitled song (at this moment), that is expected to be written by Thomas 'G:Son' Gustafsson, who was the writer on Loreen Talhaoui's "Euphoria," the winning song from ESC LVII.

France, Denmark, Albania and Armenia has also selected entrants as well.

As of now, this is the updated list of competitors at ESC LVIII:

Who See "Reggaeton Montenegro" (MNE)
Heilsarmee "You and Me" (SUI)
Alena Lanskaya "Rhythm of Love" (BLR)
Zlata Ognevich "Gravity" (UKR)
Andrius Pojavis "Something" (LTU)
Roberto Bellarosa "Love Kills" (BEL)
Adrian Lulgjuraj, Bledar Sejko "Identiet" (ALB)
Amadine Bourgeois "L'enfer Et Moi" (FRA)
Nodi Tatishvili, Sophie Gelovani "TBA" (GEO)
Gor Sujyan "TBA" (ARM)
Esma Redzepova, Vlatko Lozanoski Lozano "TBA" (MKD)
Anouk "TBA" (NED)
El Sueno de Morfeo "TBA" (ESP)
Emmelie de Forest "Teardrops" (DEN)

San Marino and Malta will announce theirs this week and others to come throughout the months, so come back here for updates!

Friday Jukebox 1.25.13: The Mars Volta Breakup Special.

With news of the breakup of the Mars Volta, comes a gem from their 2003 debut De-Loused in the Comatorium. The first single from that album is a great one, and vividly remembered it through watching the music video to it as well, called "Inertiatic ESP."

Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the front man for Mars Volta is now doing solo work. He is no stranger to band breakups, as he formed Mars Volta after the break-up of his band, At the Drive-In in 2002. The rest of At the Drive-In left to form a band called Sparta, and released Aquifer months before the Mars Volta released De-Loused, both in 2003.

Child Brides Escapes Polygamist Sect!

Link.

This is sad what these women went through. God bless them for coming clean with the situation. Fuck you, Warren Jeffs!

Roller Derby Returning to TV, But Only in the UK.

link.

Hopefully they will learn from past shows such as RollerGames and WSL RollerJam and not add storylines, which ruins it all.

Michael Winner, 77, British Filmmaker

Link.

Film credits included Death Wish (1974) and Scream for Help (1984).

Assassination Attempt Caught on Tape?

Check out this man, presumably a registered delegate with the Movement of Rights and Freedoms party hold a gas pistol toward MRF leader Ahmed Dogan in Sofia Tuesday...

The response of the gunman getting his ass kicked is hilarious. Even Bulgarian PM Borisov (leader of the majority CEDB/GERB party) doesn't like it...

The MRF is a party that represents ethnic turks and minorities, and very liberal. It has been under fire for friction within the party and rigging votes in elections.

BELLATOR 86: Askren v Amoussou for Welterweight Title and Mo Lawal's MMA Return

Finally it is great to be back posting pictures on my blog.

With that in mind, BELLATOR 86 will be just as explosive as Thursday night's BELLATOR 85. Why? Because Ben 'Funky' Askren will return to the cage and defend his welterweight title against the most recent welterweight tournament champion Karl Amoussou.

Also, there are four welterweight tournament quarterfinal matches featuring the likes of Brent Weedman, Marius Zaromskis, Doug Lima, Ben Saunders and Mikhail Tsarev.

But that's not all! the final quarterfinal match in the light heavyweight tournament will mark Mo Lawal's return to MMA as this will be his first fight with BELLATOR for the RPW (which was a GOOD concept, but short lived) and Strikeforce star.

 

CARD

Welterweight tournament

Quarterfinal
(170 lb/76.5kg)

Jose Gomes v Raul Amaya

Marius Zaromskis v Brent Weedman

Koffie Adzitso v Ben Saunders

Doug Lima v Mikhail Tsarev

 

Light heavyweight tournament

Quarterfinal
(205 lb/92.25kg)

Przemyslaw Mysiala v Mo Lawal

 

 

Welterweight championship

(170lb/76.5kg)

Ben Askren (c) v Karl Amoussou

 

 

LIVE on SPIKE Thursday night after IMPACT Wrestling! 

Stan Musial, Baseball Hall of Famer Died; Posted on Backup Blog.

Baseball hall of famer Stan Musial passed away Saturday. See my post on my backup blog, mwoatub.wordpress.com.

NFL Conference Finals, James Hood and Earl Weaver Posts on Backup Blog.

A small, mini-preview of the two conference championship games, as well as on the deaths of James Hood and Earl Weaver, are all on my backup blog.

You know where: mwoatub.wordpress.com.

Friday Jukebox and 2013 NHL Season Preview on Backup Blog.

This week's Friday Jukebox has a EUROVISION touch, and a small preview of the NHL season. You know where: mwoatub.wordpress.com!

Elizabeth Hurley to Reporter: "You Should Go Fuck Off!"

After a bad match in Perth, Shane Warne didn't want to say not much to this ten reporter. Instead, all the talking was by his fiancee...

 

 

Classic. The man was tired.

Lance Armstrong and Ryan Leaf In Trouble...

Some recent troubles have hit big time for Lance Armstrong and former Cowboys QB Ryan Leaf. They're posted on my backup blog. You know where: mwoatub.wordpress.com!

Conrad Bain and BELLATOR 85 on my Backup Blog.

Until this uploading images problem is fixed by Google, the backup blog is where everything will be posted. With that in mind, on my backup blog, I have posted two things: a link to an article regarding the life of Conrad Bain who died today, and a preview of BELLATOR 85, as MMA comes home to SPIKE Thursday night.

You know where: mwoatub.wordpress.com.

My Australian Open Preview on Backup Blog!

I preview the first round of the Australian Open as the Grand Slam season 2013 kicks off on Monday in Melbourne!

You know where: mwoatub.wordpress.com!

Strikeforce Finale, Friday Jukebox and NFL Conference Semifinal Preview...

It's all there on my backup blog! mwoatub.wordpress.com!

You Are Looking Live!

Brent Musberger and former Ohio State quarterback Kirk Herbstreit on the girlfriend of Alabama starting QB A.J. McCarron during Monday night's B(C)S National Championship game (Bama won 42-14):

Her response on NBC News' Today the next morning:

It's a non-story. Harden the fuck up everybody.

Burger King Sex Lawsuit and Academy Award Nominees 2013 on My Backup Blog

Since I'm still having problems uploading images to this blog (Google is trying to work on this problem), on my backup blog, I have posted two things:

• Burger King sex lawsuit. So much for getting busy in a Burger King bathroom.
• The Academy Award nominations are out. If you're a fan of C.L. Bryant's Runaway Slave or another documentary, 2016: Obama's America, the news is not good. Shame on the voters.

You know where to go: mwoatub.wordpress.com!

NHL Lockout Post on My Backup Blog.

Once again, until the problem is fixed regarding the uploading of images, that post is on my backup blog at mwoatub.wordpress.com.

Friday Jukebox, NFL Wild Card Preview and More...

Due to a glitch in the photo upload section of this blog (and there are reported to be other problems as well), those can be found at my backup blog: mwoatub.wordpress.com.

Paparazzo Killed

Link.

First Diana and now this. We learned a whole lot from the dangers of being a paparazzo. And no, I'm not a Justin Bieber fan, but something is screwy here...

Happy New Year!

Even Kylie approves of it!