Mother Earth must like Ryan Thomas (P.S. she hates the rest of us)

Typically, you should feel like a dick when you're thankful that a volcano erupted stranding thousands of passengers (including this writer's father) for weeks on end. But for Ryan Thomas the volcanic eruption in Iceland, which, I am told was green before it was covered in ash, gave him a second chance in the Bellator welterweight tournament. Jim Wallhead, the man who was suppose to fight, is stuck in Europe until the billowing clouds of ash clear allowing trans-Atlantic travel.

Thomas lost to Ben Askren in Chicago last week in a controversial referee stoppage. Ryan was so upset with the loss he consoled himself over a carton of ice cream, which is a lot better than having a cigarette out back (something we've seen all too often at amateur events).

But the fact that mother nature went all Hephaestus on us for that stoppage is proof that somewhere in the pantheon of deities there is a MMA god though he probably has a much pull as Hermes. That guy is a total jerk.

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