2011 Off topic thread(basketball,movies,etc whatever)

[SPX]

I had this weird dream last night where there was this old stadium in Chicago that was hosting a UFC event. The day before the event, one of the fighters pulled out of the main event. Everyone got pissed off, but the UFC brought another fighter in at the last minute.

The next day, I was there for the event, and then 5 minutes before the main event started, the replacement fighter also fell out. An official comes out and tells the crowd of thousands that there will be no main event and the shit is over. Everyone goes crazy and sets the stadium on fire.

I flee for my life and have to leave my vehicle (my dad's old minivan that I used to drive when I was in high school) in the stadium parking lot and and the next thing I know I'm in a REALLY shady area of Chicago where I'm probably going to die and I have no money for the bus and don't even know what direction to walk in.

Then after various interactions with the locals, I wake up.

The weird thing is that the main event that everyone went ape shit about was some crazy shit like GSP vs Zaromskis.

[Vandelay]

Can you provide a Cliff notes version thats about 10 words long?

[SPX]

Had weird dream cancelled UFC main event riot fire almost died in hood cuz no GSP vs Zaromskis.

[Svino]

Have any of you ever seen the movie, Knuckle, about bare-knuckle boxing among the Irish Travelers?

Imagine Bumfights, but made for the Sundance Film Festival.

http://www.movie2k.to/Knuckle-watch-movie-843852.html

[SPX]

^^^ Ludo, you wanna take this, or should I?

[Luke]

^^^ Ludo, you wanna take this, or should I?

I will:


negged Svino

[Ludo]

Have any of you ever seen the movie, Knuckle, about bare-knuckle boxing among the Irish Travelers?

Imagine Bumfights, but made for the Sundance Film Festival.

http://www.movie2k.to/Knuckle-watch-movie-843852.html

I actually turned X onto this movie a couple months back. It was very interesting to watch it all and about the fueds and whatnot. A fun fact, the world bare knuckle heavyweight champion Bobby Gunn recently challenged Tank Abbott, who refused the fight. In light of that, Gunn is actually going to defend his title against James Quinn Macdonagh(the main subject of that film). It's pretty big news since James Quinn was never defeated or even knocked down in his time fighting members of the other travelling irish families.

[Svino]

They should get Kimbo Slice or DaDa 5000 lined up.

[SPX]

I actually turned X onto this movie a couple months back. It was very interesting to watch it all and about the fueds and whatnot. A fun fact, the world bare knuckle heavyweight champion Bobby Gunn recently challenged Tank Abbott, who refused the fight. In light of that, Gunn is actually going to defend his title against James Quinn Macdonagh(the main subject of that film). It's pretty big news since James Quinn was never defeated or even knocked down in his time fighting members of the other travelling irish families.

Indeed, Ludo speaks the truth. I thought it was quite fascinating. I saw a trailer for it up on the Apple Trailers page the other day and was kind of like, Son of a bitch. I guess they really took their time to push out a theatrical release.

Regarding the bare knuckle HW champ wanting to fight Tank Abbot, I guess I have to give him credit for knowing his place in the world. At least he has the good sense to not challenge a Klitschko or even Anderson Silva.

Gunn vs McQuinn should be interesting.


. . . Wait, there's a bare knuckle HW champ?

[SPX]

Train don't run outta Wichita. 'Less'n you're a hog or cattle. People train runs outta Stubbville.

[Ludo]

. . . Wait, there's a bare knuckle HW champ?

In response to a recent ‘challenge’ by former cruiserweight champion and current world heavyweight bareknuckle champion Bobby Gunn, Tank Abbott’s agent Timothy Beal declined the fight.

Over the past week Bobby Gunn was quoted as to saying he would openly challenge former UFC heavyweight Tank Abbot for the world heavyweight bareknuckle boxing championship, but Tank has been hesitant in responding.
Earlier this evening, Beal called Team Gunn, stating, “We will not fight for less than $50,000. Tank Abbot is a legend, and Bobby Gunn isn’t a big enough name for us.”

Team Gunn responded by offering Tank Abbott a generous offer in addition to PPV and ticket royalties. Again, Beal responded Team Abbott won’t accept the fight.

“I think this is a pure indication that Tank Abbot doesn’t want this fight,” said Bobby Gunn. “Years ago he claimed to be one of the best street fighters, and now he has the chance to prove it by fighting for the world bareknuckle title.”

Currently Bobby Gunn and James Quinn are scheduled to fight for the world heavyweight bareknuckle boxing championship in February of 2012. This bout will feature two of the most revered bareknuckle fighters of our time, and will surely pave the road to a long and exciting future for bareknuckle boxing.

“Tank Abbott claims to be the best, and now he has a chance to fight for it,” said Gunn. “If he doesn’t step up than we know he didn’t want to add another loss to his record.”

“When we conduct business and setup a fight, it is as gentlemen, not as fighters,” said Gunn. “In response to this, Abbott’s team was anything but gentlemanly; they want to live in the past when Abbott was a somebody.”

“The bottom line is that Tank overprices himself, and he doesn’t want a real fight,” said Gunn. “The only champion he is nowadays is the champion of eating chili dogs and drinking beers.”

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[SPX]

BOL. Interesting.

Two things. . .

1. I wonder what the "generous offer" was that they responded with.

2. PPV royalties? I really have never heard of any sort of "bareknuckle championship." Are there orgs? How are they on PPV? Or by PPV do they mean streaming it from a website for $10 or something? In any case, I will be watching this shit.

[Vandelay]

Any teams in the playoffs around u luke? besides kenton?

[Luke]

Any teams in the playoffs around u luke? besides kenton?

Wapak made the playoffs too even though they lost their last game to Kenton.May go watch Kenton's playoff game since it's at home

[Luke]

Werdum getting his ass beat by Wanderlai in a sparring sesson


http://ironforgesiron.com/2011/11/video-werdum-vs-wanderlei-hard-sparring-session/