While some viewers may feel that longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan has been phoning it in lately, commentary partner Jon Anik sounds like he couldn’t disagree more.
Posted on January 31st, 2021
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.
At a time when the word LAW
has become a ‘dirty’ word, because of the problems created by lawyers, Bar
Association, AG’s Dept., judges, some CJs, behavior of some courts, Ranjan
Ramanayaka’s tapes, and how the yahapalana parliament cheated supreme court in
passing laws, the black-white-filled legal education council found a panacea to
all these ills: GO BACK TO ENGLISH MEDIUM QUICKLY WITHIN 3 YEARS between
2022-24 (Government Gazette 30/12/2020).
I consider this a
sickening decision; one more example of Sinhale (Ceylon) going down the drain.
This council of legal education is part of the Evil Triangle (politician-officer-NGO/citizen),
W-W-L-W-L-W-W-L-W-W-W
No, this is not some sort of strange code. This was Tyron Woodley’s five-year road to the UFC welterweight title, spelled out in wins and losses. Needless to say, there were a lot of bumps along the way.
No fighter sets out on his career saying, ‘I would like to win a bunch of fights, but not in a row. I would like to lose about three times, sit on the bench for a year and a half and then knock out Robbie Lawler for the title.” There are zero fighters who have this five-year plan. Not even Woodley. However, Woodley did exactly that, won the strap and showed the world that even champions are not always perfect.
Once again, we find ourselves south of the border for a UFC event. No, it’s not Mexico. The organization has only done that once, and on the whole that pay-per-view was pretty underwhelming. This time, it’s Brazil, the setting for UFC Fight Night 77. The fans are truly in for a treat, too. Not only do they get to see one of their own legends in the main event, but they also get to see him square him off against a fellow legend.
Brazilian favorite Vitor Belfort looks to rebound from his loss against UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman by taking on Dan Henderson, who might be in the midst of a career renaissance after enjoying a first-round knockout victory over Tim Boetsch in his last fight. These two MMA mainstays have squared off twice before, most recently in 2013 (and in Brazil, no less). It took Belfort barely more than a minute to knock out Henderson that time, though many naysayers will point out that Belfort was aided by testosterone-replacement therapy, which has sin
The cost of being ‘The King’
Spencer Fisher was a popular UFC fighter for seven years. When an abnormal brain scan ended his career in 2013, he went to work for the UFC. Now, he’s living with the damage he suffered over a decade of fighting.
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One email can change the direction of your life.
For the Fisher family, it arrived on Jan. 13, 2017, the day the UFC’s then-chief legal officer informed Emily Fisher that the services of her husband, former UFC lightweight Spencer Fisher, would no longer be needed.
“I’m glad to hear that your family’s holidays were memorable,” it began.