Severn wins, Hill loses during busy MMA weekend and Germany is being Ridiculous

Quick run through of my weekend. I left early yesterday morning for Dusseldorf to meet with Stitch and the publisher, Black Mesa Books, for his upcoming book, From Migrant Camp to Madison Square Garden: The Stitch Duran Story. We spent the day together doing interviews and making some pretty funny commercials (if you have a 7th grade mentality and we do) for Ranger Up Presents Mixed Martial Arts IQ, my other super awesome book that will be released in a few weeks. Then we watched the unedited commercials on the computer and laughed until we peed and then headed to the Wladimir Klitschko/Eddie Chambers fight, luckily I was wearing dark pants.

I’d just heard on Friday that the German “FCC” had banned the UFC. Now this is the country that allows just about anything and everything on the radio. I’ll never forget the time I heard the German guy say in his best radio voice, “That was I wanna f--- you by AKON...yes very good.”

At the boxing match, which was more like a sparring session for Wladimir as he picked apart and pummeled Chambers while the crowd cheered wildly, I saw numerous kids ranging from about three years old to ten years old cheering too.

A couple sections away from us a brawl broke out and about 20 security guards had to drag a couple guys out of the arena and the crowd enjoyed this just as much as the action in the ring.

So I wonder, if they really feel that the UFC is so bad that it should be banned even from TV, then why do the Germans embrace boxing (and AKON) as they do despite its similarities to MMA?

The ban equals pure lunacy! While at the fights (which despite all the above I thoroughly enjoyed and find a clip of Jonathan Banks’ KO, total craziness) I missed out on a lot of MMA action.

MMA Junkie covers a lot of it in an article, but a couple interesting notes. Dan Severn will be celebrating his 77th or 83rd birthday, something like that, in a couple months and he’s still winning fights. “The Beast” is truly a legend in the sport and really he is just in his mid-fifties. He’s fought 115 times and boasts a 92-16-7 record. He’s been KO’d just once and it happened almost five years ago.

Sadly, Corey Hill suffered a loss to Mark Holst in the main event of Xtreme Kombat League. Hill is in the middle of an amazing comeback after breaking his leg back in December of 2008. The break was BARELY noticeable but it did a lot of damage. As a matter of fact, according to the doctors at the time he should still be sidelined, but the lanky Hill had already won a couple months ago.

I’m sure a Kimura loss won’t set Hill back too long and he’ll be back at it soon. I doubt he’ll fight 115 times and he for sure won’t fight in Germany any time soon, but he will laugh his ass off at the upcoming Ranger Up Presents Mixed Martial Arts IQ commercials.