UFC 118 Review...MMA vs Boxing?

Writing this blog as I watch the event which is a first for me. Decided to watch it today as I was way to tired last night to stay up. What usually happens is I fall asleep before the man event or wake up from the sound of Goldberg screaming ITS ALLLLL OVER!!!

Andre vs Nick
First fight I saw on the prelims was Andre Winner vs Nick Lentz..it sadly went the way I thought it would go, Lentz the wrestler pushing Winner against the cage for 3 rounds to grind out a result. Winner proved to have some awesome takedown defence and balance, but for some reason he couldn't keep his distance and didn't really have a chance to get many strikes off.

Joe vs Gabe
Next fight was Joe 'J'Lo' Lauzon vs Gabe Ruediger..both ex Ultimate fighter 5 contestants..Gabe is famous for being a fatty and not making weight to fight on the show. Anywho..Joe the hometown boy went to TOWN on this fool. OMG!! I don't think I have ever been soooo hyped for a fight that I didn't even care about. Joe beat the crap out of him..dumped him on his head, passed his guard like a knife through butter, got his back and hit him with some heavy shots, got to mount beat him up, back to his back, then he switched for an arm-bar and made him tap. This was AWESOME!!!

Dan Miller vs John Salter
Next fight was the Dan Miller fight, was a pretty boring stand up fight until Salter shot in for a double and Miller tapped him with the ninja choke..really nice stuff. Especially as Dan took this fight on short notice and literally would have got his pink slip to leave if he had lost this fight..you could see the emotion in his face when he won.

Nate vs Marcus
Nate Diaz vs The Irish Handgrenade Marcus Davis was off the hook, Marcus got a nasty cut early above his eye from a glancing punch which bothered Marcus the whole fight. It was mostly a stand up war with Nate getting the better of the exchanges with his volume of punches compared to Marcus who seemed to be reaching with his punch and missing alot. Round 3 Nate finally got him down and tapped him with the arm in guillotine...really nice stuff, if he was ever gonna win it was gonna be this way. Marcus being the hometime boy refused to tap and got put to sleep.

Gray vs Kenny
NOW!! this is the fight I am looking forward to, Gray 'The Bully' Maynard vs Kenny 'KenFlo' Florian for the number 1 contenders spot at 155. The first round was big feeling out process..Kenny staying really low looking to avoid the shot from Gray..Kenny won most of the exchanges,caught him once but Gray shook it off..wit ha Minute to go Gray got the take down but managed next to know ground and pound when he got him there.

Second round started much the same, few punches and kicks from Kenny then Gray took him down..Gray is a beast, one of the strongest guys at 155 for sure..but as usual Gray doesn't do much damage on top. 3rd round much of the same..I knew this fight would either be fight of the night or a Gray Maynard grinding borefest..and it was sadly the borefest..fairplay to Gray..he got the job done. Sad for Kenny..not sure where he goes from here.

Maia vs Miranda
Nice 185 scrap, Damien Maia the best grappler in MMA vs Mario Miranda who is dangerous everywhere. OK WTF..how is Maia taking him down at will right now? I do not see where this fight is going. First round was really weird, Damien nearly tapped him, took him down at will and Mario who has superior striking..reallllly didn't show it. Maia has put on a total BJJ clinic on this guy..grinded out the easy decision.

Toney vs Couture
OMG..what is gonna happen...oh wait he got taken down in 10 second..hilarious...arm triangle..fight over..blah blah blah..boring Randy once again.

BJ Penn vs Frankie Edgar 2
Main event time, this is what I came to see. BIG take down from Frankie to start.. wowzer..first round was a big win for Frankie..took BJ down 3 times with some pretty big slams..never saw that coming at all. Second round much the same, BJ is to slow to hit Frankie and Frankie is taking him down..don't see a win for BJ. Round 2 to frankie...round 3 to frankie..round 4 to frankie..round 5 to Frankie..BJ is DONE!!! wow..did not see that coming at all. BJ looked slow, and out of his depth..SHOCKING stuff.

Verdict?
Not a great card, maybe because most of the fights didn't go the way I hoped..but alot were boring fights, the Joe Lauzon fight was the big highlight for me. Frankie vs BJ 2 was boring once more..Toney vs Randy was a freak show and the rest was sub standard. boo boo boo.

UFC Review: Wow Wow Wow UFC 117...OMG!!!

That was INCREDIBLE...I watched the first 2 rounds and was like O_O wait a minute, this isn't supposed to happen. I shouldn't have been shocked as Chael did this to Nate and I didn't expect that to happen. but wow he came out swining, hurt Anderso na fw times and was able to take him down at will.

I will admit I was a baby and had to skip through the rounds, as i just had to see it Chael won or not, got to the 5th and could see the pattern of him coming out and taking him down at will..then he gets the triangle and i was like :-D OMG OMG OMG best thing ever. Never been sooo happy about a win in the UFC.

Can't believe Chael tried to bring out his I didn't tap out gimmick again, but he gave up on looking like an ass again and just accepted it.

The Struve fight was also epic, I want the kid to do well and he got battered the first round, that was terrible, his lip looked like the nutty professors...but that quick ko in the second was brilliant.

The card had tooo many fights which didn't go the way I wanted, Hughes and Clay winning sucked, can't stand those mugs...fitch winning also sucked, as alves is my boy, but the fight proved Alves really has NO chance against GSP. Dos Santos winning was awesome, it now sets up the potential Dos santos vs Cain fight which 'will' happen when Cain kicks Brocks ass.

Was an awesome card, i now need ot go and watch the whole 25 mins of the Silva fight lol.

Finally a use for the iPad...

The iBookend transforms your new iPad into a simple bookend, designed by Dominic Wilcox.

"My idea this week is an accessory to transform the whizzbang iPad into a simple practical object that may be useful around the home, in this case a bookend."

Also a lil review from a 2.5 year old...

Telstar Logistics founder Todd Lappin’s 2.5-year-old daughter reviews the iPad.

"As you can see, after geeking out on my Sutro Tower homescreen, she took right to it — including figuring out how to enlarge some of her favorite iPhone-legacy apps to 2x to display full-size on the iPad screen. If you’re good at understanding kid-speak, you’ll also notice that she immediately saw its potential as a video-display device. She lamented the lack of a camera, and wondered about its potential for playing games.

On the downside, she had the same frustration as many adults, where touching the screen-edge with your thumb while holding the iPad blocks input to all home screen icons. Notice also that she was confused by the splash page for FirstWords Animals, her favorite spelling game: Because the start button looked like a graphic, rather than a conventional button, she couldn’t figure out how to start the game."

Props to laughing squid...

HTC Desire Review...

Where do I begin? Oh yeah the phones FUCKING AMAZING...soooo happy with my new toy. Using it makes my old N97 feel like an ancient relic. I will admit, at the time my N97 was amazing, it had a lovely keyboard, plenty of mass memory, and it was the first phone I got with a data plan to use the internet and it was pretty good...BUT using the HTC Desire is just next level.

Lets start with the screen...WOWZER its beautiful, 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen with pinch-to-zoom capability...so you can do all the cool stuff the iphone does, use multi-touch to zoom in to pics, flick from screen to screen with ease. Unlike my N97 that has a resistive touchscreen that required pressure, this one relies on the electrical properties of the human body to detect when and where on a display the user touching. Because of this you only need to lighty touch to use it, no stylus required.

The camera on the device is pretty good, 5 mega-pixel camera with single LED flash. No dedicated camera button, but the trackpad works as a button for this which is no problem to use.

Unlike the iphone which has a pretty boring homescreen which consists of a list of program short cuts, the HTC Desire with its customised Android OS Sense UI 2.1 it has 7...yes 7 homescreens. And you can use these for whatever you want. On my home screens I have:

1. Weather Widget

2. Twitter Widget

3. Music Widget

4. Main Home screen, Clock + Weather, program links for messages, emails, camera and internet

5. Facebook Widget, Youtube Widget, program links for Twitter, photos, calender and maps

6. Web Bookmarks Widget

7. left free for now

So I have pretty much what I want at the flick of my finger. Fancy checking FB its there, Twitter its there, wanna quickly flick to a internet page I can click straight on a bookmark. Quality stuff, very intuitive.

A nice lil feature the phone has is when you unlock the device, once you flick the screen down to unlock, depending on what the weather is the screen will either have rain drops fall which are then washed away by window wipers..or for example if its cloudy..a set of clouds will fly by in the back ground. Its a nice lil touch that always looks cool. The phone also has 'live' wallpapers which are basically animated backdrops, some of which you can interact with. For example pressing on the water background will make ripples, nice lil touch.

I gave the Android Market space a quick look and its pretty darn cool. MUCH better then the Ovi store on my N97. That was a really poor store, hard to navigate, would constantly log you out also. The store on the HTC Desire is great, has a easy to use search feature, apps download and install quickly also. It seems to have alot of apps and alot of variety also.

The phone came with a 4GB Micro SD card, upgradeable to a 32GB card, I will probably eventually get one, but 4 GB is plenty for now. Loads of space for pics, music and apps.

To summarise, so far, VERY impressed. Haven't used it as my real phone properly yet as I haven't got a case and have been to scared to carry it about with me lol, but I will sort that soon. If your thinking of getting a new phone and think Blackberry's are corny and iPhones are too expensive, its defo worth checking out.

Up Close and Personal

Watchmen was AWESOME...

So I went to see Watchemen this week and MY LORRDDD that film is awesome. I remember the day it came out, the majority of people's status on facebook was 'wow...watchmen aint all that' so I went in expecting to be not that impressed, but it turns out that was crazy talk from them.

I went into the film knowing nothing of it, I had seen a few trailers but that just showed me how amazing it looked, the effects, the lightining etc etc, not relly what the film was about. I was shocked to see how deep it was, there was some real f'd up moments in the film, but it was so so good.

*The Plot*
The story takes place in an alternate timeline in which masked, costumed vigilantes fight crime in America. In the 1930s and 40s, the vigilantes form a group called the Minutemen. Decades later, a second generation of superheroes attempt to form a team as well, calling themselves the Watchmen.

Thats a very basic idea of where the film is at, but it gets much deeper, its very political, has to do with world war 3, all sorts. I think alot of people's problem with the film must be that they went in thinking its like spiderman or something, and when they found out its not 90% action they were like WTF am I watching here.

The film is very story driven, but it does have some fantastic action scenes in there and some brutal deaths which were awesome (in sick way). Hands down my favourite character from the film was a weirdo character called Rorschach who was just soooo badass, but he was very troubled.




















I don't wanna go into to much more detail but let me just say the film is badass and everyone should see it. 9/10