Tag: Mark Kerr

MMA Campfire Tales: MMA Cop-outs

Mike Hammersmith (Staff Writer) | February 23, 2012 | Reply

UFC is back in Japan huh? I don’t see what the point is. Unless you’re holding a tournament with Sakuraba and Tank Abbott in the same weight bracket, I’m not interested in what’s going on in the land of the rising sun. Back in my day, the only reason you fought in Japan was to avoid an athletic commission. Who’s to tell two men they can’t fight with razor blades strapped to their foreheads? It boggles the mind it does. The men of old school MMA weren’t afraid of anything though, and you couldn’t keep them out of a thumb-tack filled cage if you tried. There are, of course, a few bad apples in the bunch though.

MMA Campfire Tales: Tactical Errors

Mike Hammersmith (Staff Writer) | January 15, 2012 | 1 Reply

Flyweights are coming, and we’re already infested with Bantam and Featherweights. As for me, the only weight class I recognize is the open weight class. Back in my day, no one ever cut weight. They were too busy cutting your face with full mount headbutts to give a shit about what a scale said. Ah, the good old days of MMA. They’re long gone now; Swallowed by commissions and legislations, but an old man can still reminisce about how things used to be.