K1 better than UFC?

 

While on holidays in Spain the television in our apartment only had three channels CNN, Sky News and Eurosport. I chose Eurosport as my channel of choice one night as I was sick of current affairs and stock prices but what I watched blew me away. Im a UFC fan firstly but after watching the K1 World Gran Prix in Las Vegas I was really impressed. The fights unreal, the fans brilliant, the drama (buckets of it!) and the overall presentation of the event was top notch.

 The most recent UFC was disappointing to say the least except for the terrific display of martial ability shown by Anderson Silva a.k.a Bruce Lee but by god Tim Sylvia made me cringe each passing second I had to focus my eyes on his lethargic massive frame stunting an excellent thai boxer against the fence and pot shotting his way to another rather boring installment of Dim Tim in the Octagon ring!

 K1 HOWEVER was excellent. The fights were Muay thai and boxing. The fighters exteremly athletic and technically skilled standing up. The eurosport commentator was immense and I thougtht Joe Rogan and Buffer were eccentric. This guy had a saying for every punch in the fight. All mI could think watching was this is my world this is exactly how would like to fight if I was a fighter.

 The drama on the night was that of upsets at the Bellagio as long shot reserve fighter Doug Viney boxed his way to the 2007 World Grand Prix in Las Vegas championship. In a veritable jackpot for the book makers, one after another favored fighters went down in defeat, and at the end of the night it was the man that hadn’t even had odds posted that went home with the trophy.

 They showed a Top 10 knockouts after the event and they were all brilliant.

 10 out of 10 for K-1.

As for UFC I cant help but feel the honeymoon period is over. With the big stars dwindling and the rise of Tim again and the sighning of Brock Lesner???????? The reputable UFC seems to taking a different course. And Bispings decision over Hamill in UFC in England just furthers my suspicions that UFC is run like a business even some fighters fight  fights in a business manner for a win. Nothing at all wrong with that at all as they play to their strong points like wrestling or keeping a guy down to secure a win but It would have me looking at the Argos catalogue on the table in a couple of minutes or that picture that I never really noticed on the wall.  I do respect that side of UFC and know its paramount for an MMA fighter but I do also know that K-1 had me shouting laughing and cringing from start to finish and the fighters were tecnically outstanding! 

Dan Brown – The best Suspense Writer ever!

I have to say I love Dan Brown books, I have just come back from hoildays and whilst I was on them I finally got the opportunity to relax a bit and read as I was not constantly on the go with regular day stuff. I chose to read Dan Brown Deception Point which I got for a euro in a book sale. Its the best most entertaining euro I have ever spent! The books was riveting, exciting and well written. It was techy enough for me to feel smart reading it whilst not over technical making me feel like I did when I read “A brief history of time”.

I remeber reading the review from the Washington Post on the Cover which read:

A case study in how to manufacture suspense. Unputdownable.

- THE WASHINGTON POST

 and thinking I would not buy into it but I ignored my other half for hours at a time whilst reading this. She actually wanted to get a tatoo of Dan Brown on her forehead for some attention!

This is a thumping good read I advise anyway to read it.

Garage the Film- Pat Shortt

I remember hearing about this film last month on the radio on the way to work I didnt really pass a thought until I checked out the website and the trailer.

http://www.garagethefilm.com/Home.html

It looks like a very sad truthful film set in a  country village. I booked 2 tickets a showing on Saturday night. Pat Shortt is a famous Irish comedian and putting him in this type of film is bound to be interestin. Looking forward to this one.

Check the trailer out…..