Mayweather's Rant, MMA Outside of the UFC

Final Thoughts on Heel Hooks and getting them "bani-shed (to quote Romeo & Juliet)"

Bottom line is several fighters have come out and said namely Nate Marquardt, Mike Brown, Anthony Pettis, Vinny Magalhaes, Renzo Gracie, and former UFC Champ Bas Rutten have all agreed that you can't take heel hooks out of MMA. I'm ok with that, I am just glad that the debate got started. If any developments come from that I will talk more about it but I have made my case and I am moving onto other subjects.

2nd Topic Wow what a weekend of fighting non Zuffa events

Tonight, Tachi Palace Fights 6: High Stakes

• Doug Marshall (185.6) vs. Kyacey Uscola (185.2)
• Anthony Ruiz (184.2) vs. Leopoldo Serao (183) - for vacant middleweight title
• Corey Hill (155.6) vs. Rob McCullough (155.8)
• Micah Miller (145.6) vs. Diego Saraiva (145.6)
• Luis Gonzalez (126) vs. Darrell Montague (125.4)
• Collin Hart (184.6) vs. Joseph Henle (185.2)
• Stephanie Frausto (115) vs. Paulina Ramirez (114)
• Andrew Martinez (182.8) vs. Mark Matthews (185.8)
• Art Becerra (144.8) vs. Gabriel Solorio (144.8)

Bellator Fighting Championships 28 in New Orleans

• Lightweight bout: Rich Clementi vs. Carey Vanier^[1]
• Featherweight bout: Georgi Karakhanyan vs. Anthony Leone^[1]
• Lightweight bout: Eric Larkin vs. Marcus Andrusia^[1]
• Middleweight bout: Matt Horwich vs. Eric Schambari^[1]

Friday there is Shine Fights: Lightweight Tourney 1 night.

MFC 26 .

Saturday Night there is Shark Fights 13

Keith Jardine vs. Trevor Prangley

Houston Alexander vs. Ramean Sokodgou

Paul Daley vs. Jorge Masvidal

This is a very good 3 day run of non Zuffa MMA.

Please watch these shows. They all looked stacked and Bellator on FSN, MFC is on HDNET tomorrow night.

Tachi Palace Fights is available GoFightLive.tv. for 9.99.

These 5 fight cards show that there is MMA outside of the UFC and WEC.

3rd topic

What do you guys think of the Floyd Mayweather homophobic rant on Manny Pacquaio?? Can you consider what Floyd Mayweather said to what Muhammad Ali said at his peak vs. Smokin Joe Frazier? I just think boxing is one of the few sports where when you get to the status Mayweather has reached that you can say whatever you want and there really isn't much backlash. Would the NSAC or the CSAC not license him because of what he said? You better believe they would license in him a heart beat. Unfortunately,Mayweather is a big draw, I don't think he will miss a beat. I do think he should be reprimanded however there isn't a governing body with the stones to do it.

Happy Hunting