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Saturday, April 30, 2005

Fight pics 

Like probably the majority of people I'm picking Toney by decision over Ruiz. I'd love to see Toney put Ruiz out to pasture and end Ruiz's reign of boredom over one of the title belts. There's a couple of thing's that worry me though. First I've seen Ruiz win some close questionable decisions and I've seen Toney lose some. If this fight is reasonably close could Ruiz's friends in high places get him a decision? It's possible. Toney tends to offend a lot of people so if the fight comes down to politics it might work against Toney. The other thing that concerns me is Toney's weight at 233 pounds. At 6 feet tall that can't be his ideal weight. Then again when you get older you gain a little so it may not be a bigh deal. Toney's also more about giving angles than moving around anyway. I see Toney basically outclassing Ruiz and taking over the last half of the fight.

In the udercard it's Wiliamson vs Jefferson. I haven't seen either of them fight in a couple of years so who knows? I'll predict that Jeffrsons learned a thing or 2 in the last few years and will win by knockout.

"The fight with Ruiz is going to be any way he wants to make it. He can do it the hard way, get beat up for 12 rounds and end up in the hospital. Or, he can do it the easy way, get hit on the chin and go to sleep."

“I do not play boxing. I do this for real.”

posted by Fred   8:14 PM

Person Claiming To Be Guy Mezger Contacts LukeBeston.net Again Regarding Fearless Goat 

We have been unable to verify whether this is truly MMA fighter Guy Mezger, but the person so claiming has contacted us again. This time, the alleged Mr. Mezger wrote to point out that the screenshots he forwarded to us prove that Robert "Fearless Goat" Mrotek did indeed speak negatively about Chris Brennan. The alleged Mr. Mezger also noted that Mrotek went public and denied ever having said anything at all negative about Brennan.

"Mezger" sent along the following post:

From: Fearless Goat
Date: 01/15/05 11:05 AM
Member Since: 02/21/2004
3916 Total Posts Ignore User


A troll contacted one of the 5 instructors stirring up a lot of trouble. The troll told the individual a bunch of crap that I supposibly said about him, and I never did. I called and talked to the person on the phone, and forwarded him all the trolling emails I have got so he would know what was going on.
FG



Robert "Fearless Goat" Mrotek:



Guy Mezger (on the right):

posted by T   3:00 AM

Friday, April 29, 2005

LukeBeston.net allegedly contacted by Guy Mezger about Robert "Fearless Goat" Mrotek 

Someone purporting to be MMA fighter Guy Mezger contacted the editorial staff at LukeBeston.net recently. The alleged Mr. Mezger wanted us to know that he had corresponded with Mrotek briefly and that Mrotek was very clearly, in his opinion, a psychopath.

"He contacted me to try and get me involved with some charity scam he told me he was pulling. I wrote him back with a few questions, and the next thing I knew, the guy was ripping in to other fighters."

Mezger included a couple of screenshots of different emails that Mrotek wrote him. They are included below.




posted by T   2:07 AM

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

The Face of Evil: Robert E. Mrotek, Jr. 



Taken shortly after he proudly plead guilty to several heinous crimes including the rape of a minor, this picture of Robert "Fearless Goat" Mrotek serves as a chilling reminder for all those who doubt the existence of pure evil.

As he was taken from the courtroom in chains, Mrotak displayed his disdain for the laws of society and the traditions of the Judeo-Christian faith while laughing at the victim's family. Promising to strike again upon his release, "Fearless Goat" flashed the pentagram symbol he had recently tattooed on his hand with a broken ballpoint pen and needle somehow smuggled into his cell.

"I am the wickedest man in the entire world/The flag of Satan will soon be unfurled!"

Excerpt from the album Codex Obcenus: The New Satanic Manifesto, or How I Raped that Bitch and Almost Didn't Get Caught, performed by Robert "Fearless Goat" Mrotek's now-defunct black metal group ChristHammer.

posted by X   2:44 AM

Monday, April 25, 2005

Machine May applies for The Apprentice! 

A Beston's NHB reader who works for NBC has kindly shared with us an application for the upcoming season of the reality television show The Apprentice. The applicant is none other than disgraced forum poster Nick "Machine" May! Below is a copy of his application, a LukeBeston.NET exclusive!


posted by Rainbowthief   1:14 AM

Friday, April 22, 2005

Fight pics 

First Paul "the Punisher" Williams will take on Olympic bronze medallist Terrance Cauthen on Showtime tonight. Wiiliams is compared to a young Tommy Hearns so I would look for him to score a ko.

On the Saturday ppv card -
W.Klitschko vs. Castillo - This is a tough fiht to pics. Castillo is a good boxer with a victory over Michael Moorer and if he gets it into the later rounds he Klitschko may have one of his trademark heart attacks in the ring. I'm going to predict though, that Klitschko finally gets a little aerobic stamina and stopps Castillo in the 4th.

Brock vs. McCline - As big as he is McCline is like Ruiz in that he has that counter puncher mentality. He's coming off a disputed decision loss to Chris Byrd. Brock is a 2000 Olympian and he's coming off a ko of Cliff Ettiene. I think Brock picked up a lot of skills in his extensive amateur background because he's not easy to hit cleanly and he seems to have great balance and defense for a heavy. He throws these awkward looping shots, but he has heavy hands when he lands. McCline is always in great shape and he can occasionaly land a big power shot. I think what will happen is that Brock will be aggresive and out work and out fight McCline. McCline will have his moments and it will probably go to decision, but I expect a Brock decision.

Mosley vs. Estrada - I like Mosley at the lower welterweight and I think he will win a close but clear decision over Estrada.

Margarito vs. Cintron - very tough fight to call. Cintron's a great boxer with devestating power especially in his left hook. Margarito's a guy who's lost only once over about the last 10 years and that was by cut stoppage. He's also coming off of nearly punching a guys ear off. I'm going to go with Margarito by decision in a war. I just don't see Cintron being able to stop Margarito and Margarito is a non stop punching machine. This will be a great fight one way or another.

posted by Fred   6:19 PM

Monday, April 11, 2005

The Ultimate Fighter season one review 

We don't usually cover MMA events, but this is an exception. Besides, several of the fighters have posted on MMA forums anyway, so here it is.


First of all, here's what I liked:
  • Footage of the fighters training and getting pointers from Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture.
  • The fights, even the bad ones. Free fights every week was something to look forward to on Mondays.
  • The live 2 1/2 hour finale. Great way to end the show. One great touch was the intros showing each fighter at home with family and friends and training. Easily my second favorite part of the finale after the Bonnar vs Griffin fight.

What I didn't like:
  • All the Real World/Big Brother reality show bullshit like Chris Leben pissing on Jason Thacker's bed, the endless shots of fighters hanging out with their shirts off in the living room and the fighters whining about being bored.
  • Fighter selection, but more on that later.
  • The fighter elimination process, more on that later too.
  • Too much Dana White. Why was TUF edited into the Dana White show? Most hardcore fans couldn't care less about seeing him, so why would new fans?
  • Not enough Couture, Liddell or Willa Ford. They got their two best light heavyweights on the show and wasted them. I would've liked to have seen Liddell teaching striking techniques to the fighters and more of Couture instructing them also, especially since all the fighters seemed to revere him. A little more eye candy would've been nice too, especially with the gay antics sometimes reaching a suffocating level, but unfortunately there were too many episodes in which Ford was barely seen or not at all.
  • The team challenges. They were stupid, slowed the show down and had nothing to do with fighting skills.

What needs to be changed desperately for season two:
  • Get rid of most of the house antics and show more training or at least more talking about fighting and less of the "I don't like so-and-so" bullshit.
  • Get better fighters. It's been said that the mix of jobbers and legitimate prospects was done to make the better fighters look good, but if so, the idea backfired badly, resulting in absurd mismatches leading up to a very undeserving Kenny Florian suffering a horrible beating at the hands of Diego Sanchez in the final. While they're at it, make sure the fighters want to be there. For most of the first half of the season, I kept wondering where on earth Dana found "fighters" so unwilling to fight. With the exception of Chris Leben, who early in the season implored Josh Koscheck to pick him to fight, getting a volunteer from a team to fight was like pulling teeth.
  • Make everyone fight an equal number of times. Kenny Florian had one fight and was in the final, while Diego Sanchez had to win three times to get there. That's ridiculous. Don't let the fighters pick who will fight, do it for them by picking fighters randomly to create brackets and make sure everyone fights the same number of times. Better yet, get rid of the ridiculous team concept and place all the fighters from each weight class into one group and have both coaches work with them. They'll benefit more from having both coaches anyway. Seeing the fighters whine about losing teammates or having to fight them was laughable. When the hell did MMA become a team sport?
  • For the next finale, use the time more wisely. It looks like Zuffa planned on saving the undercard fights for the upcoming DVD, but some more fights on TV would've been nice. Three fights in 150 minutes is not enough.
Overall, the show got off to a terrible start, showed some unfulfilled promise in the middle, but ended with a bang, thanks to Stephan Bonnar and Forrest Griffin.

Final score: B (it would've been a C- if not for the excellent finale).

Now the fighters:

Nathan Quarry--Poor Nate. This guy had some of the strongest buzz going into the show and thanks to that dumb lug Alex Shoenauer, the audience never got to see him fight. Whether the UFC will give him a fight is anyone's guess, but he deserves something after the lousy luck he had on the show.

Alex Karalexis--What a pile of slop. He fought like someone who just stepped into the cage right after watching UFC 1 for the first time ever. We'll never see him again, thankfully.

Jason Thacker--Dana, what were you thinking? Thacker himself said he wasn't good enough to be there! If the lousy canuck hadn't been sent packing by Randy prior to the start of fighting, we might've seen someone who looked even more frightened in the ring than Lodune Sincaid.

Lodune Sincaid--Forget "The Vanilla Gorilla," this bum's nickname should be "The Reluctant Fighter." Could he have looked any more scared in his fight with Bobby Southworth? When he learned that Southworth had picked him to fight, Sincaid looked like a doctor had just given him five days to live. Aside from the obvious lack of skills, Sincaid needs to find a heart.

Chris Sanford--I'm sure there was a reason for Sanford to be there; unfortunately, I can't figure out what the hell it was.

Sam Hoger--So, Hoger alienated himself from his teammates and his coach, stole UFC merchandise and then acted like an ass after getting knocked out by Forrest Griffin on the show. After all of that, I doubt his unaired decision win over Bobby Southworth in the finale will do much for his fighting career.

Josh Rafferty--Another guy Dana probably found in a record store at the local shopping mall. Rafferty may be many things, but a fighter ain't one of them.

Alex Shoenauer--Oy, after everyone raved about how impressive he was in defeat against Forrest Griffin, he got knocked out by light fisted Mike Swick in 20 seconds in the finale! Do cry for him, Argentina, his career is over.

Mike Swick--I guess it would be fair to point out that, like Kenny Florian, Swick was fighting in a higher weight class than usual, but I have a feeling that half of the middleweights on the show would've trounced Swick as well.

Bobby Southworth--What a heartless jobber. Southworth couldn't make up his mind if he cared about winning the contract or not. On one episode, he said fighting didn't define him because he had other things in his life back home (a job dealing cards in a casino), then when he was waiting to see if he would take Forrest Griffin's place on the show, he referred to winning the contract as his dream. His public attacks against Dana White and Spike TV, along with his loss to Sam Hoger, ensured that his future is at the card tables, not in the Octagon.

Chris Leben--One of the most hyped up fighters going into the show, Leben talked a pretty big game, but showed nothing in the Octagon. Still, MMA fans love a bad boy and so does Zuffa, so look for Dana to bring this crying mess into the UFC, feed him a steady diet of bums and hope that he turns into a good fighter. Either way, look for mini-Tito to appear in future UFC events very soon.

Josh Koscheck--Not especially impressive on the show, but Koscheck has possibly the biggest upside of any fighter on the show because of his youth, conditioning and superior wrestling ability. Few wrestlers of his caliber have jumped to MMA and even fewer have committed to the sport as deeply as he has. With the right training, Koscheck could become a champion in the UFC, especially if he learns to use the fence to his advantage as Randy Couture does.

Diego Sanchez--It's hard to tell how good Sanchez is because even though he won four fights to win the UFC contract, he never beat anyone decent with the exception of newcomer Josh Koscheck. So far, his submission skills look very good, but until he's challenged by a solid striker, he'll remain a question mark to many. He's a strange eccentric who also enjoys the microphone a little too much. If Joe Rogan hadn't cut him off, Sanchez might still be thanking people after his victory over Kenny Florian.

Kenny Florian--Looks too soft to be a fighter and his sudden billing as a BJJ black belt didn't help him against Diego Sanchez. Though Florian belongs in the welterwight division instead of the middleweight, going down in weight class won't make up for his complete lack of toughness. Whether he gets any UFC fights depends entirely on how good Dana thinks he is, but I'd be surprised to see him again.

Forrest Griffin--The man picked by most fans to win the light heavyweight contract since before the show aired came though, but not without a torrent of controversy in the final. Still, Griffin is the real deal and will bring a very well rounded game to the Octagon, though where he figures in the UFC light heavyweight picture is unclear because I can't see him beating any of the big three (Couture, Liddell or Tito Ortiz)--yet. Still, his reckless style will be a welcome addition to the UFC and should provide plenty of exciting fights for fans starving for relief from Zuffa's stable of lay n' pray stallers.

Stephan Bonnar--The breakout star of the show. Bonnar looked as soft as Kenny Florian in interviews, but the newly anointed "American Psycho" proved to be one tough fucker on the Octagon, eliminating Bobby Southworth in a convincing decision, submitting Mike Swick and earning a moral--though not official--victory over Forrest Griffin in the light heavyweight final, for which Zuffa rightly rewarded Bonnar with a six figure contract of his own. This former Golden Gloves champion and Carlson Gracie student could have the brightest future of any of the fighters on the show.

posted by Rainbowthief   11:39 PM

Has Forrest Griffin left Team Frankiscool? 


The Ultimate Fighter light heavyweight winner Forrest Griffin

After winning the light heavyweight final of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter, Forrest Griffin proceeded to thank a number of people in his training camp, but one very notorious omission was Griffin's longtime manager and mentor, Frank "frankiscool" Bishop. Did this very public snub signal the departure of Griffin from Team Frankiscool or was he simply too dazed from Stephan Bonnar's punches to remember Frank? Calls to Team Frankiscool headquarters in Athens, GA were not answered and Griffin was unavailable for comment, but we at LukeBeston.NET hope that now that Griffin has hit the big time he will not forget the man who got him there.

posted by Rainbowthief   5:01 AM

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Fight pic 

Braithwaite vs Mormeck for the Cruiser crown. I will go with Braithwaite by late stoppage.

"I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country wasn't built on moral fiber. This country (THe USA) was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime."
Mike Tyson

posted by Fred   11:06 PM

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