In addition to the “Tuesday Mass Media Updates”, bUGLY is proud to announce the “Thursday - Bust You in the Chops” segment. Without further procrastination, let’s get started.

First off, I found another good MMA podcast. It’s called Fight Opinion and you can subscribe to it via iTunes. This panel isn’t as entertaining as the folks over at the BeatDown (kudo’s to TJ and Josh), but they do produce a pretty good show. The one I listened to tonight featured interviews with the guy from UFCJunkie.com (awesome site for MMA news) as well as Sean Salmon (last Thursdays TUF Fight Night main event co-headliner with Rashad Evans). I feel like a turd for not remembering the UFCJunkie’s real name, but he was a good interview. He discussed how his sponsorship of Sean Salmon for the Evans fight came about as well as Sean’s continued future involvement with the UFCJunkie web site. His comments suggest it wasn’t a whole lot of money that was invested in the sponsorship and he went on to add that it has significantly increased traffic to his site. I have a feeling that others will try and mimic this type of business arrangement with the lesser known fighters. I also suspect that the cost to do so will also significantly increase (his website url got some major airtime during the show as it was printed in Sean’s shorts). Great show, but I’ll admit I didn’t finish the whole show though as it was a whopping 2 1/2 hours in length.

Segue - We didn’t have MMA when I was a kid. The closet thing to it was watching my neighbors, the Brisco boys, duke it out in their front yard. I remember shooting hoops with Rick one afternoon and without provocation Steve (aka “the Slimer”) came out the side door of the garage and shot Rick point blank with a BB gun. I never saw Rick, who weighed in at about 320 I’m guessing, move so fast. He punched through the interior door of the garage and proceeded to destroy his younger brother. I haven’t seen Rick or Steve in ages - where are you dudes?

Five Sean Salmon Factoids
1) Sean Salmon has an MMA Record of 9-2
2) Sean Salmon wrestled at Ohio State
3) Sean Salmon’s age in dog years is 203
4) Sean Salmon was the high school state of Ohio wrestling champ in 1997
5) Sean Salmon won the first round of last Thursday night’s fight against Rashad Evans

Five Salmon Factoids
1) Salmon has an MMA Record of 0-0
2) Salmon is the common name of several species of fish of the family Salmonidae
3) The Chum Salmon is also known as the Dog Salmon
4) According to Norse Mythology - Loki (the god of mischief and strife), after killing Baldr (the god of beauty and light), jumped into the river and transformed himself into a Salmon in order to escape punishment from the other gods.
5) Salmon gives me diarrhea sometimes.

How would you like to get your butt kicked by a dude name Loki?