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Prepping For the WeekendFiled Under: Rantings

I was doing the whole “screw around because it’s Friday” thing, and read this over at The Onion. It made me bust out laughing.

Ultimate Fighting Championship’s Popularity

As Ultimate Fighting continues its phenomenal rise, Onion Sports runs down the most commonly cited reasons for the sport’s popularity:

America’s deep abiding interest in Brazilian jiu-jitsu

Professional wrestling fans like to relax and watch it after long hard days of suspending their disbelief

The fact that this shit is actually legal

Accidentally TiVo’d by people hoping to watch the Ultimate Frisbee Championship

Are heterosexual males; nothing more heterosexual than watching a well-muscled man force himself between another man’s legs, mount him, and pound away at him until he submits

… (see full article here)

Thank goodness it’s Friday.

Tags: UFC

Local Fighter DaMarques Johnson on The Ultimate Fighter 9Filed Under: Local

Current Throwdown ETC welter-weight champ, DaMarques Johnson will be representing for Utah on UFC’s reality show, The Ultimate Fighter season 9 tonight on Spike, 8 pm.

Johnson has been waiting for his shot, and it looks like it’s finally come. Fighting out of Jeremy Horn’s gym, Elite Performance, DarMarques has been training in Jiu-jitsu since 2001 and has developed into a fairly well-rounded striker.

As you many know, this season’s TUF is like the Revolutionary War, the British vs the Americans. The Brit team appears to be pretty stacked, so Johnson will have his work cut out for him if he’s going put the beatdown on the redcoats. Oooohhh, and I hate them redcoats, with all their taxes without representation.

Good luck DaMarques!

Tags: Damarques johnson, TUF, UFC, Utah MMA fighters