not to be stereotyping anyone, but i'm living in a house with 3 men, and there's a lot of football on right now. and we have only one, gigantic tv in the living room. i'm cool with football, though when i watch it i mostly just see guys in a pile. baseball season is horrible for me. i just can't get into it unless i'm actually in the stadium at a real live game.
but tonight, there's a sport on that we can all enjoy: mixed marshall arts (aka ultimate fighting). i think we all appreciate two people who really love to fight trying to completely physically dominate one another. it's not like one of them doesn't want to be there.
i just saw 47-year-old football great herschel walker beat some 26-year-old in the ring, and the guy almost left crying. it was amazing.
up next: cyborg vs. marloes coenen. cyborg is the ultimate ultimate fighter. she's so badass! i loved watching her win against gina carano. i was supposed to root for the american. and it's not that i don't love carano--she's badass. but cyborg is just way cooler somehow. she's an animal. she is not pretty. but she has the most awesome smile when she fights, and when she wins. you can tell that fighting is her life.
i get so happy when i see that the women have won the right to fight for 5 minute rounds instead of just 3.
now they're talking about cyborg's opponent for tonight. i'm thinking she might be pretty amazing herself. she started training at 14, began her professional career at 19 in japan. they are really making this fight sound like it's going to be awesome. cris cyborg is the world champion. this opponent though, is from europe. who knows what she's going to do! marloes coenen, that's her name. from amsterdam. cyborg from curitiba, brazil.
they're business. cyborg is just scary.
cyborg is pinned against the fence, getting footstomped.
cyborg loves fighting. she gets out of the hold, smiling.
there's a second round.
it's like the ultimate form of human expression. in the "man vs. man" type of classic conflict sense.
i root for the underdog; this also goes for "who's fitting in better in the world of expectations of women." cyborg has a huge dragon tattooed on her back. the other woman has roses tattooed up her side.
cyborg wins the fight. she is jacked. my roommates are saying she is part man. she does have huge arms. after seeing the documentary "bigger, faster, stronger," i wonder if she takes steroids. i wonder if as many mma guys are into steroids as regular bodybuilders. I'm just glad women are getting an equal chance at this sport. it's a combination of different martial arts including boxing, muay thai, jiu jitsu, and others. the idea that anyone can do martial arts is really reinforced here, and i think that's great.
and gina carano is in large part responsible for bringing attention to women's mma by posing in probably the only non-sleazy shoot for maxim ever done, so i'll thank her for that. she is awesome too.
Update: now learning that cyborg was indeed on steroids (though supposedly she "didn't know,") gina is my new fav.
