From
where I sit it looks like Anderson Silva made a complete ass of himself.
There's
not many other ways to describe what happened. Chris Weidman
deserved more respect than what Silva afforded him in the octagon.
Sometimes you need to see the entire fight to grasp the nuance of
what happened. Sometimes a fight can be easily summarized in 10
seconds. Silva wanted to play stupid games. And he did. Weidman
wanted to fight. And he did. Hubris may be the best word for Silva
on the night. A stupid, arrogant display of contempt that ended
precisely the way it should have. Weidman deserved the win and the
title, if even just for taking his opponent seriously.
Speaking
of moronic decisions brings me to NASCAR and the Coca-Cola 400.
Once
again a green-white-checker finish left just as many cars wrecked as
fighting for the win. In fact this time they managed to one up
themselves in dangerously stupid choices..and basically ignored their
own rules in the process. I grew up in the 'good old days' where the
drivers 'raced back to the flag' when the yellow came out. However,
in a wise move to make racing safer and give emergency crews more
response time the field is frozen almost as soon as a crash happens.
But, not Saturday night. For reasons known only to themselves a 6
car wreck was fully ignored, presumably for the sake of a dramatic
finish. And it was dramatic...with another dozen or so cars piling
up. What will it take for NASCAR to wake up and see the danger?
Sadly, it will probably take a full-on tragedy for changes to be
made.
At
least that's how I see it...and I sit in the cheap seats.
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