Author Archive for johnnyp
4/19 Warrior Challenge Live Results
I’m live at the building in York, PA for the event. Brandt DeLorenzo is shooting photography from the balcony. I’ve made a makeshift press section up there as well so hopefully we can do round-by-round coverage if the Internet connection holds. A very full ballroom for this debut MMA card, probably 500 or more. Looks [...]
Live Ring of Combat 22 Blog
We are live from the Trop in Atlantic City. Looks like the fights will begin sometime around 9pm. Check back throughout the night. 2 four minute rounds in Heavyweight Division Jim Boudourakis vs Pat Collins Jim Bou. Is from Redboy BJJ and Collins is out of AMA fight club. This was a joke. Boudourakis has [...]
Ring Of Combat 21 Results and Commentary
Ring of Combat 21 – For cageside pictures, go to MMAPrints.com Late to the building, we missed the two swing bouts. Sorry. Andrew Riddles vs Mike Stewart (Middleweight) Riddles is a Ricardo Almeida fighter. Stewart is out of team Jungle Gym. Round 1 was mostly Stewert using his superior size to get Riddle to the [...]
The Average Bill Blog: EliteXC on CBS
Here’s the deal. I’m tired of Internet MMA hardcore micromanaging. I’m tired of people not understanding business going hand-and-hand with the fights and promotion of them. I’m always looking for a way to make the points missed by those inside the bubble. Since I live in the bubble at times too, I got me an [...]
MMA + Kids = ?
Sunday Morning at 9:30 EST could be just as important as the night before. Another story by ESPN tests the perceptions and notions about MMA in our society. How soon is to soon to start? Take a look.
My Political (MMA) Cartoon Script
(The basement of a suburban home of a teenage male. He wears an Affliction T-shirt. There are imported SHOOTO posters on the wall. A Fedor bobble-head doll on desk next to the family computer. The boy types on the screen at a random Mixed Martial Arts message board.) PRIDEForever91: Afflictions PPV card rulz. Dana White [...]
The Dear Lorenzo Letter
Dear Lorenzo, How’s it going? Must be busy with the new job and all. I was sorry to hear about you having to quit your other job. Now your brother is gonna make all that money! I hope you saved a few of those $110 million a year you were making. Bad economy and all. [...]
Help, Time Warp (Or “Kimbo Can’t Come Over to Play”)
I don’t usually break news in my blogs, but this story just couldn’t wait. Mixed Martial Arts is about to go Mainstream! I heard it on Dan Patrick’s radio show. Then later, I heard Scott Van Pelt, of ESPN TV and Radio, talking about it. It’s odd though. They kept calling it Ultimate Fighting, which [...]
The Forest from the Trees
Rampage vs. Griffin is going to draw a lot of buys on pay-per-view. The internet fan base of mixed martial arts that reads blogs and news sites on a daily basis is going to hate the UFC’s Ultimate Fighter show no matter what. These aren’t concrete facts, but they are most likely to be true [...]
Calm Voice Wanted
My father’s generation had Walter Cronkite, respectable and stoic, to talk them through the death of John F. Kennedy on live TV. In those days people respected the news media. Cronkite was a calming voice on a chaotic day. My generation had a tragedy of its own on September 11, 2001. It played out in [...]
