Jay Glazer is a great ambassador for MMA. There is no more mainstream sport than that of the National Football League & the NFL is how Glazer earns his wage. He was on our show last week to update us on Fat Albert Haynesworth. I had a chance to not only ask him if mixed martial arts training would benefit Haynesworth & his failed physicals, but get some skinnny on Randy Couture’s upcoming bout with the constantly obnoxious James Toney. That was a run on sentence.

Hey friendos.  Brad Fukes here.  As you know I am a big time MMA fan and a supporter of Mixed Martial Arts in all forms.  I am especially proud of how far the DC area has come as an MMA friendly community.  I have attended dozens of fights locally. From Operation Octagon & The UWC to the UFC fight night at the Patriot Center.  You have to have a tremendous amount of respect for the athletes that compete in this sport which is what makes this all very exiting for me personally.

I am going to be doing play by play for “The Battle of the Legends” presented by Washington Combat. I will be joining an old friend as Luke Thomas from MMA Nation & Bloody Elbow will be covering the color commentary duties.  He is an expert, I am a fan.  It should be a fun evening as something new is attempted by Ol’ Thad.  I have to thank my friends Mario & Fernando Yamasaki who need no introduction to any mixed martial arts fans for the opportunity.

If you are in the area, the card looks pretty damn good and some big names are scheduled to be there.  Hopefully you’ll come check it out, or at the very least wish me luck.  Thanks for you support in all my various endeavor’s, it’s what opens up the path to new destinations.

Click HERE to check out the official site for the fight. (Best part is the lower left hand side, if you ask me.)

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Anderson Silva should be proud of himself. Being a sports fan for my whole life and covering various sports professionally on and off again for nearly 7 years, he accomplished something that I have never seen. He disrespected every aspect of this sport and profession in one night. Sure there have been tons of guys that have tested positive for PED’s, guys that have flipped off fans & guys the have gotten arrested. Very few instances include prolonged disrespect for 25 minutes while the sporting event is occuring. Combine that with Silva’s belief that he owes no one an apology for these actions & his assertion that his opponent Demian Maia disrespected HIM in someway, makes this a doozy.

To start with, there is the line of thinking that Anderson Silva is being paid to fight. He signed a contract to fight Maia for which he will be rewarded handsomely. A title belt is on the line in the best organization in the world for his craft. He owes it to his employers who invested capital in him to go out there and ply his trade. I think most of us have had jobs that were not to our liking at some point in our lives. If that check keeps coming, we keep showing up and keeping our mouths shut. Or you get a different job. You don’t urinate on your bosses desk and curse out your customers on the phone. At bare minimum, Silva owes the UFC that. Do your job to the best of your abilities and clearly that dog and pony show we saw on Saturday was not the best The Spider had to offer.

Then there’s the disrespect to people like me. People that forked over 50 dollars to watch this thing in HD. To see a title fight where both parties gave it their all. I despise people that steal PPV’s on the internet. They are scum that lack the balls to walk into a 7-11 with a ski mask on, but will STEAL a tremendous production like a UFC pay per view. They have no right to be upset by ANYTHING that happens during one of these cards, much as a jewel thief can’t curse imperfections in the diamonds he lifted. But people like me got the shaft from Anderson Silva. I work hard for my money and I chose to spend a good chunk of it on mixed martial arts and the UFC specifically. Why? Because they have proven themselves time and time again. I don’t blame the UFC at all for that crappy main event. I blame the freakishly talented, weirdo that wasted 2 minutes or so of my time, and thunderously applaud Maia for making the last round viewable.

Speaking of applauding people, respect needs to be given to the crowd in Abu Dhabi. I spend a lot of time trashing Mixed Marital Arts fans and for good reason. Booing, cursing and general lewdness seems to plague most MMA crowds, but that was not the case in Abu Dhabi. Kudos to them for getting overtly behind Demian Maia as that abortion of a fight progressed. That was the right thing to to in a very embarrassing and awkward situation for everyone watching.

Finally, the person Anderson Silva boned more than anyone in this debacle is New Jersey’s own Frankie Edgar. I met Frankie when the UFC was here for their fight night at the Patriot Center. You couldn’t ask for a nicer, more humble person to dethrone the greatest lightweight of a generation. Edgar’s speed, combinations and elusiveness against the much larger and more decorated Penn was a pleasure to watch. As a fan, I couldn’t wait to delve into twitter & the blogosphere to read people’s takes on how monumental an upset that fight truly was. Unfortunately, that fervor was short lived as “SpiderGate” was about to unfold in front of my very eyes. Silva’s bullshit dwarfed what was one of the better stories in 2010 in Edgar, and one of the more entertaining come from behind victories in the Munoz/Grove fight earlier in the card.

Silva screwed over his boss, his profession, the fans and his co-workers. Short of sodomizing my mother on Thanksgiving day or feeding my dog a ground up lightbulb, I can’t think of much more he could have done wrong. My solution is give this egomaniac what he wants. Competition and pay-per-view buys (which he can’t seem to generate himself.) How to do that? Give him Brock Lesnar. I am not learned enough in the ways off MMA match making to figure out how that would work, but it would solve three issues. I advocated cutting The Spider the moment the match ended. I think he’s a headache the UFC doesn’t need and cutting him would not only free up their middleweight division, but most likely bankrupt Strikeforce. They would throw a pile of money at Silva, who doesn’t bring eyes to the sport and doesn’t try very hard so would not reward the acquisition with revenue.   Apparently that isn’t plausible as he might be the pound for pound best fighter in the world. So what’s left? In professional wrestling terms, I think a squash match is next.

You would see Lesnar close the distance on Silva, pin his chest to the mat and hammerfist his bald head into unconsciousness. Reap the benefits of humbling this boob in front of what would most likely be the largest MMA pay per viewership ever. Hold the thing in Jerry Jones Strip Club/football stadium that Dana seems to love so much. It doesn’t matter if Lesnar defeates Shane Carwin or not to retain his title, Brock and Silva fighting each other is work a million buys alone.  You kill all birds with one stone.  You give Silva “competition,” you most likely humble his arrogant ass, you fatten your own pockets and you punish this brazilian rube for making you look bad.  Do it Dana, for all of us that were shit on by this clown this past Saturday.  Put him in the cage with the monster and see how much dancing around he does with 290 pounds on top of his chest

We did the show live on friday.  It kicked off with an interview with The Million Dollar Man & his son.  It was quite a day.  We also got a chance to walk down the ramp into an actual WWE ring.  It was quite a moment.  The first thing that struck me was how little give there is in the ring itself.  I don’t know how these guys suffer bumps in a ring like that.  The steel steps are just that, by the way.  They weigh a TON.

Put together some pics from our first day in Arizona.  We broadcasted live from Phoenix Convention Center for the site of Wrestlemania Fan Axxess.  It’s really a tremendious event before a really tremendious event.  The video below is of two nerds marking out, and an ugly british woman.

A lot is being made about these comments by HBO’s Mark Taffet in regards to the overlap of Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts fans. Steve Cofield from the Cagewriter blog on Yahoo seems to think Mark is wrong. I know that Luke Thomas from Bloody Elbow is a HUGE fan of the “Sweet Science,” but he is what I would call a combat sports zealot.  Does the average MMA fan like boxing & vice versa?  My answer is unequivocally no. Not just because I love MMA and find boxing to be dull and monotonous.  Not just because I personally know dozens of people that are fans of one or the other, but not both.  I draw on my experience of planning out afternoon drive sports talk radio programs in both Baltimore and Washington DC and another show in Phoenix.  Humor me…

Hockey is a violent sport.  It’s played at high speeds with plenty of action, hitting,  & athleticism.  Those adjectives can be used to describe NFL football but is there massive crossover for those two sports?  Not judging by the callers to my various radio programs.   That’s a pretty large sample, maybe even larger than the one HBO used for their comparison.  We have hockey callers & football callers.  It is VERY rare to have both.  These are your average fans, not your hard-cores/maniacs.  Is it really so hard to believe that run of the mill MMA fans would be bored by boxing?

Take the corruption, big ego fighters and slow, dull decisions that dominate that sport out of the equation. Most MMA fans start booing if fighters inside the cage circle for more than 20 seconds or if the fight is taken to the mat for longer than a minute.  These ADHD animals are going to sit through 2 arrogant millionaires jabbing one another for 12 rounds?  Of course there are exceptions (Manny Pacquiao being a great one) but that doesn’t make up for what I like to call the “Zab Judah effect.”  I don’t like pricks & the pricks in MMA tend to be more exciting in my opinion.

The argument that I have used in the pass to defend my obvious disdain for boxing in regards to MMA is that by watching MMA, you get boxing.  Why would I watch a Field Goal kicking contest?  Field Goals are a part of football.  I imagine if field goal kicking was it’s own sport the kicking would be of a MUCH higher caliber than the kicking in actual football.  Much like the hand throwing in Boxing is generally thought of as much better that it’s counterpart in MMA.  That alone does not a sport make.  I love all the “mixed” parts of mixed martial arts.  Boxing, takedowns, jiu-jitsu, grappling, wrestling, kickboxing, the works.  Why would I sacrafice “The Works” on my burger for a burger with really good mustard?  I wouldn’t.

I’ll leave you with a few words from Steve Austin. A man that knows a thing or selling pay per views  He tweeted this yesterday in regards to the most recent boxing PPV:

“my respect goes out to all fighters on the card. wasnt worth the price of the ppv.”

Agreed Stone Cold.  These athletes get all of my respect, but none of my dollars.  I’ll stick with the sport that has phenomenal athletes and more often than not manages to put on an entertaining show as well.

The RodKast is back in full force. Brad, Bartie & Flab.  Cameos include Beau, Ryan & Blue Cock.

Click here for Segment 1, Segment 2 and Segment 3

Sonjay Dutt Joins the Chad Dukes Rodkast in HD from ShakyKnee on Vimeo.

Very cool guy. I always enjoyed watching him in TNA and am very glad he ended up in Ring of Honor. Great promotion that really has a lot of good talent. Sonjay talked about the business, what the goal of every wrestler is, what is was like in TNA and what it’s like being from Northern Virginia.

Check out his myspace by clicking HERE. Check out ROH by clicking HERE.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010.  The Carpool in Herndon.  Join The Fukerton, The RodKast and the dirtiest players in the game: The Main Street Mafia.  This is their biggest and most ambitious film to date.  In their first picture, the battles zombies.  In the second, the fought The Predator.  In “Schism” they face their most difficult opposition yet.  What could challenge the might of strongest wrestling group ever to walk the halls of 10800 Main St?  Join us the 24th and find out for yourself.

When we say this is the most ambitious project we have undertaken to date, we mean just that.  We have no official backing from the radio station.  This is not a part of the current radio show.  We are making this happen all on our own through diligent work and some great people.  Creepy Justin, Sam Klemz, The Carpool, Chris Kinard & many more have worked hard to make this happen.  We need YOUR help to make sure it is a success.  It starts with you showing up and bringing as many friendos as you can but it doesn’t end there.

We need you to post this link you are reading right now. Twitter, facebook, Myspace, message boards, your own blogs, anything.  We here at the Fukerton realize it’s difficult to explain the concept of a wrestling group that operates in a radio station that fights fictitious characters and loves gay humor.  That’s why we provided THIS helpful video that shows the history of the Mafia.  Get your OWN Main Street Mafia shirt to wear to the premiere and help spread the word by click HERE. If anyone goes old school, street team and flyers a parking lot or a campus, you win a prize.  Just get pics and post them here on the Fukerton.

This has the potential to be a truly epic night if we all work together.  The Past, The Present & The Future will collide on February 24th.  Make sure you are a witness…

I’m sure many people thought they had heard the last of the notorious Main Street Mafia. Were these men villains? Heroes? What caused them to step away from the limelight? All of these questions will be answered…soon.

Thanks to Spike Knee AKA McKnee AKA Shaky Dick AKA Shake Knee AKA Shaky Klemz AKA Sam Klem as always. He is the official editor, producer and camera man of The Fukerton & The Main Street Mafia