You knew this was coming...

The moment Stephan Bonnar's was cut by an accidental head butt you knew that skeptical reporters in attendance would have a field day (it happened in Germany too). But Peter Fitzsimons of the Sydney Morning Herald takes the cake for over-the-top, hyperbolic spew (he must be trying to win a Pulitzer):

Welcome to something called the Ultimate Fighting Championship which, as well as claiming to be the world's fastest-growing sport, made its debut in Australia yesterday on a schedule suited to the American pay-per-view prime-time Saturday night audience.

A cross between Fight Club, rock'n'roll, a vicious bar-room brawl and the fall of Saigon, the idea is that this is "multi-discipline fighting" - across three five-minute rounds - incorporating everything from boxing to wrestling, kick-boxing to karate, judo to jujitsu to just about anything else you can think of, including choke holds, and ...

I guess by "Fight Club" he means boxing, "rock'n'roll" must be jiu-jitsu, "the fall of Saigon" has to be judo and "bar-room brawl" must have been something he saw at a soccer match the other day and is simply confused.

By the way, I am pretty sure that "fall of Saigon" comment is a reference to The Deer Hunter and if you have ever seen that movie then you know Fitzsimons is completely off his rocker.

The article itself feels more like a Hollywood screenplay, with a little bit of information topped off with a moralistic wag of the finger at those in attendance

WKR will leave you with the Peter's conclusion:

"...it looks like we might have moved into an age when tens of thousands of people no longer want cups of tea. They want buckets of blood."

Doesn't he know vampires are totally in right now?

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