It's official...The CSAC Is Run By Bizarro.

I mean it.

Don't believe me?

You can be kind and gentle with words, give your side and reasons about why you took said steroids and pretty much prostrate yourself in front of the commission to be lenient and reduce your suspension. Your suspension will still be upheld.

Or...you can verbally bully the commission, swear like a fucking sailor and pretty much deny the fact that a steroid most built for horses was in your system...and get six months off.

What's really funny is that the best way to get your suspension reduced is having a 78 fight record. That's it! Ain't that so cool!! If you have 78 fights under your record, you can get away with fuckin murder!

Hermes has 24 fights. Sorry Dude! Gotta to uphold the law. You can do whatever the fuck you want when you have 54 more fights under your belt. It'll also help if your a repeat offender and verbally abusive as well.

I mean really. Telling and excepting the truth is only for Thug and Cowards. It's best to be a denying insightful son of a bitch with no honor with fanboy nuthuggers sucking at your sac at a moments notice. You can get away with everything then.

Kamikazee's MMA SMackdown #33

My second show as Producer

It also features my highlight, Transmission Zero One. This week is my screed on the use of steroids.

Just to clear up on things. unlike many who turned into Baseball fans when news broke out that that 22 out of 30 failed drug tests were from MMA, my screed was more for the health of the fighters. I've seen too many fall to the needle and the pill, I don't need to see anymore in a legit sport.

Spinning the WWE way.

I believe there are many of you out there in other fields of combat sports who maybe intrigued by the Benoit situation. A lot of you might not be, but those who are please read further.

Right now, in terms of this case, besides the arrest of Benoit's personal doctor, this has been a very slow news week. While prominent wrestlers have come out and spoken up about the pro wrestling industry, the media is dead set in framing the way they http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifwant this case to go.

Right now, we're going to put that aside and look at how the WWE is controlling things with the media.

Last week, we had WWE put out an "anti-steroid" press release to the media. While it's normal for WWE to send press releases saying that they were anti-steroid and that their "wellness policy" is working, this was totally the wrong time to do it. Especially when the tox report hadn't come out yet. So now they have Jerry McDevitt, their lawyer, doing damage control

Speaking of damage control, The WWE gave warning that they'll be testing soon. So the next couple weeks, everyone is going to try to clean everything up for the "surprise Wellness test". Keep in mind, this will be a fixed test. They are going to try the best they can to make it look like they're making effort instead of making one in the first place.

So after the next couple weeks, they will have a list of those who didn't "pass". There will be three types of people.

1.) People that pretty much floating around. These are people who are on the roster that are more or less there. No one has any "story" for them, they mostly put on great matches on the "D" shows and some who have been put back in the farm for seasoning. They'll release them under the guise of "Wellness". and then when everything theoretically "cools down", they get brought back in.

2.) People that management or Front of House doesn't like. This is a perfect way to get rid of people that pretty much go against the grain on how you're supposed to act within the business. This can go anywhere from logically asking questions so one can better carry angles to something extreme as say.....just the look of your face or what school you came from. Or the very extreme of getting Pop more then an established figure made by the company.

3.) People they can't cover anymore. These are the guys that constantly fail and because the situation they're in, just cut all ties if not to show they're "doing their job", then to make sure he's as far away as possible in case the wrestler expires.

Now is everyone under the 'scope. No. I do believe that out of the whole roster.....seven guys will just go through the motions, maybe take a small pay cut. I take that back, six guys. One guy's made no matter what.

But the rest of the roster is under the knife. Clean or gassed. And then they'll say "See! We're doing something about it! We're drug free!"

Wash, rinse and repeat for a couple months and the WWE will be nusense free. It'll be logic free. But it won't be steroid free. Especially if the the test they're taking has a 10:1 testosterone/epitestosterone count to aim for. How is this so bad you say?

Athletic commission levels are 4:1

WADA (World Anti-Doping Alliance) levels are 6:1

And if they get caught, they can whip out a doctor's note stating "testosterone replacement therapy"

10:1 is replacement therapy?

Anyways, they'll keep doing this until either the heat on them dies down or....I don't know....they run out of people.

And then it'll be business as usual.

Like nothing had happened.

For those of you reading this, I don't want that to happen. The days of "but they're just pro-wrestlers" are over. The days of ignorance is over. There needs to be heavy reform called from both inside and outside of the industry. Either call your athletic commissions and tell them to search for ways to regulate or bar and ban the WWE for good from the state. Send them a message that human lives are not cogs to the great MacMahon machine and unless they change or reform, they are no longer welcome.

This constant spin must stop and it must stop now.

My Turf.

Midland St. It's the place I work and major hangout place I frequent. I love this place. It's quaint and quiet in the day. But once the night fell, the place could party like nobody's business. This is basically my turf. My "6 inches of ground". My home.

So imagine my surprise when I found out Art Dore decided not only hold another Extreme Cage Combat on my turf, but also decided to hold a Toughm...I mean Tough Gloves contest a day before the XCC event. If you're reading this, that Piece of Shit boxing contest is still going on or has already happened. What's really funny is that both events will be held in the Hooter's Parking lot. I mean...just look at this.






Now first of all, I had asked some friends of mine how the seating setup was going down. They didn't know. They had heard that the parking lot might be split half in half. But with the seating setup going down like it was, that couldn't be right. There was a lot more chairs to be set up and if all of them were set up, the fight area would take up most of the parking lot. No way were you getting parking close to the area. The parking situation is rediculous. While parking is open at Dore's brew pub, The Lumber Barons, there is not enough space. Independence Park, which was downriver, is out of the question as well. The parking lot is filled with Carnival rides and such. This was leftover from the River Roar, the annual speedboat race we hold. The rides were left there as a carry over for the 4th of July festival later on. So parking is a major problem.



My next question was where they were going to put all the fighters. Where they were going to get ready and tape up. The answer? Dumpster area.



They're housing the fighters....in the dumpster area. The dirty, grimy dumpster area. What the hell!? Are they not concerned with clean areas? What if someone catches infection before or after the fight? What if someone gets cut? This is rediculous.

Finally, I asked my major question. Will there be medical attention at the events. My friends expressed a reluctant "no". They also believe if there was, they have a hell of a time getting in. What my pictures don't show, and I can't believe I didn't get a shot of it. The entrance to the parking lot is like a bottle neck. Sure it looks wide. That's because part of the entrance is a parking area. If the parking situation is like it is, a lot of cars will be parked in the neck, making other vehicles slow up when coming in. This is going to make it difficult for ambulances to get through. One friend of mine suggested that they might be keeping the dock besides the Hooters will be kept clear so Coast Gurard boat could bring medical attention. So instead of getting your ass to the hospital in ten minutes or less, you got to wait double that time because you're crossing the river, on a boat...to get to the hospital.



This is just sad.

And happening on my turf!!

A message for Mr. Benoit...where ever you are.

I Quit.

Pastamania.

That's the first thing that comes to my head when I think about my first experiance with Chris Benoit.

Hulk Hogan was doing a sell for his new food court prospect in the Mall of America and then after that there was this match between two guys. One was Dean Melenko and the other was Chris Benoit. My first thoughts into this match was that "they let rookies have matches on TV now?" They then proceed to blow the doors of the mother. Stuff I recognized from Judo and wrestling was in that match. I got into that match so much, I keep the channel on TNT so as I could see what else WCW was willing to bring us. I followed it from the next Monday and the next and the next.

That was when I became a Benoit fan.

And now that he's gone....I don't know.....I don't know if I can possibly help pro-wrestling by doing it justice any more.

He was one of the only positives the had in drawing the real pro wrestling fans. Without him, now what.

More green, roided up monsters and storylines that really go nowhere.

To me, Benoit is just another victim of a vicious system known as N. American Pro Wrestling. A system that is about cosmetic features rather then athletic ability. A system that rewards who you know and when you know him rather then how hard you bust your ass and how many times you come to work on your own.

A system that hates pro wrestlers.

Instead of somehow putting their feet down, the wrestlers go with the punches. Some become roid freaks. Others become junkies. Some become both. Most don't see their 50th birthday.

And the general populace don't care. I mean, it is "fake" isn't it? That's how well this system operates. The more the cloud of ignorance, the better the system works.

Admit it. If this was a major industrial job or even a movie production house and they start touting the numbers of deaths pro-wrestling had, you'd be all over it like stink to shit. But because pro-wrestling is pro-wrestling. Who cares, right?

I quit.

I quit because I can do all the himming and haw all I want. Still not going to change things.

I can write how rotten it is all I want. Still not going to stop the marks from watching.

I can report every piece of every moment. Still not going to get the press to take notice or stop them to act snobbish about the sport.

What this thing needs is a massive exodus and show the worth of it's product to the people who run it.

Not going to happen though.

I quit pro-wrestling.

Until things get changed, I'm done with it.

End of Story.

Rest In Peace Nancy.

Scatterbrains AKA This Is A Shoot!!

Once Upon A Time In Michigan AKA The Jihad Needs To Mobilize.

Zach Arnold of Fight Opinion fame has put out an interesting article about the bill being formed to legitimize MMA in the state of Michigan.

From the Grand Rapids Press...

The most troubling aspect of the bill: Promoters of mixed martial arts would be required to provide each contestant with minimum insurance coverages of $5,000 for medical and hospitalization, and $10,000 for accidental death, just three years after the legislature approved new minimums of $50,000 each for boxing.

Until boxing was overhauled in 2004, its insurance minimums, set in 1952, were $5,000.

Given that backdrop, why pass a law providing mixed martial artists with one-tenth the medical coverage, and one-fifth the loss-of-life coverage, of pro boxers?

For those who don't don't have the time to read both articles, here's the summery....

The MMA Bill that being mulled around at the moment has an outrageously high license fee and outrageously low insurance premiums.

This will tremendously hurt the MMA community economically, physically and technically.

Everybody and their mom knows that an average sized dojo or MMA school isn't going to have that much bread on them to get a licence and if they put out a loan, they're going to have to pray to their gods that they get a miraculous sellout crowd just to pay it back. Even if there was booster clubs formed, there's no way grassroots promotions is going to get the cash for just a license.

So who's going to be benefiting from this bill?

Why pro organizations and money marks. That's who.

This same bill that's trying to stifle illegal activity is a wide open door with keys for the likes of "The King of Bay City" Art Dore, Neil "The Knife" Helmkay and all of their associates. The economic opportunities I talked about happening once we regulated the sport....not happening. Events sponsored by local businesses will not happen. None will be created. The only things you'll see behind these events is the business ventures of both men which are doing pretty well as it is. All that possible revenue will be pocketed by the people who need it less and the "Know Nothing" Gangs reign triumphant.

If that isn't a piss in the pants, think of the fighters. Without the grassroot support of the schools, they're all under the shadow of the marks. It would totally be worthless to fight in Michigan if this bill passes because you'll never be able to build a quality record here. Quality fighters would be at the mercy of the mark's matchmaker AKA the marks themselves. Forget that your opponent is 15 to 50 pounds heavier then you or that his skill and technique is on the level of a JV high school wrestler or that his cardio will fall out a minute into the match. never mind if the dude a) is big b) can make the bag bend when he hits it and c) his head is far up the mark's ass, you're fighting him or you won't get paid your $200 dollars. You could be a super quality fighter, but the semi-pros will never know it because of all the cans the mark throws at you. Without quality opponents, no one will know the whole picture of the fighter and therefore the fighter will have to retire or move to greener pastures in Ohio or Illinois. This will in turn, create a desolate community without a fanbase and another lost cause in economic growth and communal pride. Sure, some of our fighters will go on to make it big, but who will really know about them.

It's a very frustrating time for the Michigan MMA community.

The Grunts Are Dying While The Generals Have Their Breakfast.

While we're on the subject of fighting money marks, where in the hell is our major media sources on the subject? Yes I'm looking at you Sherdog and MMA Weekly. You went to cover the Tommy Morrison debacle, yet done nothing to expose the promoter as the failed money mark he is. Sure you can crow about "this wasn't regulated" and "It was on an Indian reservation so it wasn't regulated", but anyway you angle it, you dropped the ball. It is your job, nay, your duty to stop marks from being the scum they are and help real MMA promoters grow. You did none of this.

And you expect everyone to take this sport seriously?

How can it do this when the sport's own media hasn't dropped it balls yet and gone for the jugular on these creeps?

Why is it me and others busting our asses to try to make this sport, our sport, safe as possible and to make sure none of this falls to the wayside and become another pro-wrestling while you guys can't even report on allegations of yakuza activity within the halls of DSE and PRIDE, leading to it's inevitable demise?

You guys are supposed to be the masthead of MMA Journalism. You're the be all end all of MMA information. You're supposed to be exposing money marks and teaching a thing or two to the Stick And Ball media about the sport. In the words of George Clooney in From Dusk Till Dawn, you're supposed to be "A motherfucking servant of God".

But you decide to rest on your laurels.

Congratulations. You won. We made it.

Now pretty please, with sugar on top, do your fucking job.

If you don't want to, that's fine. We'll be grateful to pick up the slack and actually try to make something of this sport.

A Worked Fight In PRIDE!? Unpossible!!

I got to laugh at people who got shocked when Rampage to the media that his fight with Sakuraba was supposed to be worked. That has got to be the funniest thing I head the whole day. We're talking about a time frame where the organization was still under the shadow of Antonio Inoki and Nobuhiko Takada was trying to still pas himself of as a "credible" Mixed Martial Artist. if anything, it just makes that whole period of PRIDE a bit more ridiculous.

Now if PRIDE told CroCop to dive for Dos Caras. Then...I'll be shocked.