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August 30, 2010
THE LAZENBY CHRONICLES 08/30/10
Today's Lazenby Chronicles is right HERE.
August 26, 2010
COMBAT ATHLETICS, MJOLNIR GEAR, CFOX, AND LIVE AUDIO WRESTLING
As I am before most UFC events, I'll be a guest tomorrow on 99.3 CFOX radio's Jeff O'Neil Show. You can listen live at 9 AM PST/Noon EST by clicking HERE. And for an interview that I recently did with Live Audio Wrestling's John Pollock discussing a number of matters including the retarded bid by the Canadian Medical Association to ban MMA, click HERE.
Last but not least, I'm very happy to announce that after an immensely successful test marketing of the "Mjolnir Gear" clothing line at Franco Kickboxing/Pankration, we've secured a distribution agreement with the Combat Athletics shop at 2072 W. 4th Ave. in Vancouver. They already carry some of the preeminent lines in MMA such as Jaco, Hayabusa, TapouT, and Warrior, and Chris Franco and I are very pleased to add Mjolnir Gear to their lineup. Check 'em out by clicking HERE.
August 24, 2010
THE LAZENBY CHRONICLES 08/23/10
This week's Lazenby Chronicles, which included MUCH discussion of the sorry, sorry state of MMA officiating in the state of Texas, is right HERE.
August 23, 2010
CONGRATULATIONS, CHRIS AND ILI
IMMENSE congratulations go out to my great friend Chris Franco and his wife Iliana on the birth of their daughter, Isla Sif Franco. Chris told me that once things got under way, Ili didn't waste any time and got the job done in only 30 minutes while barely making a sound.
I seem to have nieces popping up all over the place lately, and with one being caucasian, one caucasian/Fijan, one born to a mulatto/metis couple (I don't even know what to call that!), and now Isla being Hispanic/Italian, I figure that within a few more years I'll be buying Christmas and birthday presents for half of the damn United Nations.
August 22, 2010
THE MAULER'S MMA SOAPBOX
After briefly featuring me in an experimental segment entitled "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" on The Score network's "The MMA Show", host Mauro Ranallo very generously made the call to give me a segment with a great deal more latitude, which he christened "The Mauler's MMA Soapbox". For those of you who missed it on last week's show, it's linked right HERE.
The original airing included a brilliant video package by James Ladd, but unfortunately that's absent from this cut so you'll be stuck staring a my big-ass head for the full three minutes.
WOW...
Funny how the simple act of going out for breakfast can turn into an educational experience. Like just now, for example, when I learned that when you take a single bottle-blonde bimbo and put her in the middle of a busy diner, she's no problem to be around. But add a second bottle-blonde bimbo to the table and that same chick becomes a loud and crushingly boring pain in the ass. I also learned that with each subsequent bottle-blonde bimbo added to the table, the volume of BBB #1's voice increases even though her fellow BBBs are SITTING RIGHT THERE.
Oh yeah, I also learned that, like, last night? Like, there was this chick? And she was, like, SOOOOO wasted. And she was, like, leaning on this OTHER chick? And the other chick was totally, like, "Get off me".
Our society is suffering terribly from the continued illegality of judiciously-applied slaps upside the fucking head.
August 16, 2010
THE LAZENBY CHRONICLES 08/16/10
Today's Lazenby Chronicles, which addresses topics including the legalization of MMA in Ontario, SummerSlam and the release of booker "Scrap Iron" Adam Pearce from Ring of Honor, can be found HERE.
August 14, 2010
MMA LEGAL IN ONTARIO
I have to admit that, eternal pessimist that I am, I was caught completely flat-footed by today's announcement that MMA is going to be legalized in Ontario. I knew that it would happen, but expected that it would take much longer based on the refusal of Ontario government officials to even consider allowing MMA within their province.
As I always say, you have to give credit for the good if you're going to complain about the bad, so I want to offer my thanks to the individuals on the Ontario government who finally saw things the right way. And MANY thanks to Tom Wright, Marc Ratner, Dana White and the entire UFC organization for establishing a company foothold in Toronto, which undoubtedly accelerated the sport's progress toward legal status.
Now if we could only get the same result out of those tools in the BCMA who want to ban MMA nationwide based on their vague and poorly-researched opinions that MMA is ultra-dangerous due to its allowing downed athletes to be struck.
For more details on this story, click HERE.
August 12, 2010
STUFF
Once again I've dragged my feet on updating this site so long that now I gotta get carpal tunnel catching up!
First of all, I want to announce the debut of a new segment on The Score network's "The MMA Show" entitled "The Mauler's MMA Soapbox". My previous "Good, Bad and Ugly" segment ended up being a little bit narrow in its parameters, and Mauro Ranallo suggested a new format that would allow me to discuss pretty much anything I want. So check it out on the MMA show airing Friday and Saturday, and feel free to let me know what you think.
Congratulations are more that due to Sarah Kaufman, whose recent Strikeforce world title defense (in which she power-bombed Roxanne Modafferi into oblivion) I was lucky enough to witness from ringside. I also want to send both congratulations and condolences to my buddy Chael Sonnen, who smashed UFC champ Anderson Silva for over four rounds only to fall prey to a triangle choke less than two minutes from the fight's end. No one has ever done to Silva what Sonnen did, and I want to add my voice to the legions of MMA fans who want to see an immediate rematch!
Congratulations also go to my longtime buddy Lance Storm, whose Storm Wrestling Academy just saw its first graduate sign a WWE contract. This was long overdue given the consistent quality of Lance's training, and I wouldn't be surprised to see many more SWA graduates making their way into the big show in the future.
I've been working a lot lately, and owe thanks to coordinators Lauro "Lash" Chartrand, Rob "Sluggo" Boyce and Dean "T-Bone" Choe for hooking me up with work on the TV series "True Justice", "The Troop", and "Human Target" respectively. I just finished shooting a machine guy battle on "Target" on Tuesday, reaffirming that I'm lucky enough to have one of the coolest jobs in the universe. It's been great to be so busy, and this is hopefully an indication that the local film and TV industry is pulling out of its latest slump.
I also received an entirely unexpected call from my old broadcast partner Col. Bob Sheridan, with whom I worked on bodogFIGHT. The Colonel and I had a rather contentious relationship at first, mainly due to my anger over his being brought in to replace the extremely capable Lon McEachern in spite of having zero knowledge of the product. However, one thing that I have to give the Colonel is that, whatever his initial failings may have been, he worked to expand his knowledge and actually requested that I join him on the commentary team of the Ray Mercer vs. Kimbo Slice bout in Atlantic City. The recent call was simply to touch base and thank me once again for helping him to learn about the sport, which was extremely cool of him, especially considering how unashamedly vocal I was during the Bodog days. It was a classy move to call and I definitely appreciate it, so if you're reading this, then thanks very much, Colonel.
Now I have to get back to work--I've got three articles for FILES magazine and a week's worth of CFOX MMA Minute segments to write, plus another day on Human Target starting this evening. Next week I'll be hooking up with Brendan Fyfe, the man behind the Score Fighting Series, to discuss plans for the next year. There are some possibilities for broadening the scope of the SFS, as well as some plans of my own regarding my possible involvement in a more active capacity.
August 09, 2010
THE LAZENBY CHRONICLES 08/09/10
After a break last week due to the holiday, I'm back this week with Mauro Ranallo. Click HERE.
July 31, 2010
CHAEL SONNEN INTERVIEW
Click on "Fight Page" above (or check out this month's issue of FILES News magazine) to find an interview I conducted with the #1 contender for the UFC middleweight title, Chael Sonnen. It's further proof that in addition to being one of the best fighters, Chael is the hands-down GREATEST interview in MMA.
