Thursday, May 27, 2010

Huh?

Peter's a big UFC fan.
(Ultimate Fighting Championship, for those of you who are unfamiliar, which is according to their own website Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an intense and evolving combat sport in which competitors use interdisciplinary forms of fighting that include jiu-jitsu, judo, karate, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling and others to their strategic and tactical advantage in a supervised match. Scoring for mixed martial arts events in Nevada, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Florida is based on athletic-commission approved definitions and rules for striking (blows with the hands, feet, knees or elbows) and grappling (submission, choke holds, throws or takedowns). No single discipline reigns. .)
Tonight as I walked through the living room after going to the library, he was watching it, and a trainer (?) or someone was talking to one of the fighters, a young man who was panting and looking dazed. I gather they were trying to decide whether to call the fight or not, and the trainer said, (and I am not making this up), "We don't want you to get hurt."

The young fighter looked into the lights and said, "Huh?"

Pretty much says it all, don't it?

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