Death From Above

You know, the more I see of Usyk both in and out of the ring the more he scares me. Like, all fighters trash talk and act tough it just comes with the job. But man, there is something in Usyk's eyes that is just different. He just stares into other fighters like he's thinking about how he'd actually be fine with cutting out their liver or something, it's unnerving as hell. There's just something in there that says "I'm really good at hurting people", and he backs it up with all the skills you could ever want. Some prime Roberto Duran shit.

Oh and I didn't try the Oreo flavoured Coke because I failed to hear a single good thing about it, but I did end up trying the supposedly Coke flavoured Oreos. I have no fuckin clue who designed those but they've clearly never tasted a Coke before. I couldn't even tell you what flavour it was to me. It was just, like, an Oreo, but distinctly worse.

Since I've been working on getting healthier, one thing I've been doing is making soup from scratch as the base in a lot of lunches. Honestly in the current climate of what food is costing it's also a pretty good way to get value out of your dollar by getting several meals down at once too. The other cool thing with making soups is that once it sits around for a day or so the flavours only all mix and combine better, everything madinadeing everything else. This is a black bean soup that depending on how you spice it is almost like a bean salsa. The recipie is way too conservative on the spices for me but you know how to fix that. Delicious all the same. Grab a handful of Tortilla chips from a brand that isn't Tostitos so you're not eating 42 people's worth of salt in like 5 chips and go to town: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/286164/plant-based-black-bean-taco-soup/ This is a really low sodium lentil soup that as made is more spanish in style. You could easily add a chorizo to this if you're not watching your weight and swap out the water for vegetable broth. I had one of those cooking fuck ups where I ended up not having any oregano because "hey ovbviously I have that so I'm not going to check before I go to the store" so of course it's the one thing you're actually out of. So I substituted out the basil and oregano for majoram, thyme, and parsley. The result of that is it comes off with more of a Christmassy smell since those are things you see a lot in stuffings and whatnot. Smells amazing while it cooks. Was having it regularly with some cheddar asiago loaf that my local co op does. Very good: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/13978/lentil-soup/ Also speaking of stuffing I will never hear anyone disparage Stove Top brand. That stuff is a fantastic base, you can honestly get away with just adding onions and celery and still have a good time never mind getting fancy. We always end up having a bunch in the months after new year's because it's one of those things that goes on sale for dirt cheap because it's "out of season" even though there's nothing actually stopipng you from eating it whenever. Stove Top slaps.

I can't get down with most of the late 70's-80's designed stadium rock. although even I'll admit that when Journey were on they were something else. Now on the other hand, if we were talking hair metal, Dokken were hot shit for a minute there before Dan destroyed his voice and spent another 35 years limping from one gig to another. In My Dreams is to me what You've Got The Touch was to Lo Wang in the Shadow Warrior reboot. Legit one of my favourite songs ever. https://youtu.be/nIIDvKCzFgo?si=G7Q2wAUPQjtEHzdI

https://youtu.be/ZpIbaTXJD4g?si=UtYp3d_GK-SQp-Zf Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

The diamond cock ring Eminem sent him as a gift

It's a Napalm Death show they are lucky no one threw them off the balcony

I liked AEW a lot more when in the early years it really was a blender of like every style imaginable, even if some of those people weren't the greatest workers, but now it's become kind of stale to me because it feels like they want to have one specific tone most of the time, with like one deathmatch every 2 months. But it doesn't feel as varied to me anymore and I've kinda lost interest as a result. Like, I don't want to dig into the "Is Will Osprey great or overrated" shit for the umpteenth time because I'm really not interested, but I do feel there's a bit of "hey what if we had 20 will osprey's" going on there sometimes and the company is less interesting for it.

Honestly even with Sony trying to fuck it up, I think it should win. Quality overcame.

Honestly Nintendo seems allergic to creativity. They basically just recycle variants of the same 4 things and it's a shame because you see a lot of indie games that Nintendo could have made that would feature new ideas, but bigger because of their name power. The state of modern pokemon is a pretty good example. Nintendo's pokemon games have come nowhere close to some of the golden age titles for a while.

I'd honestly rate the Ali-Holmes fight as being worse/more uncomfortable to watch, mainly because Paul can't punch anything close to the way Larry Holmes could (even if by Larry's own admission he tried to ease up as much as he could). But it's probably a solid #2, no pun intended.

I suppose it's impossible to track, but it would be interesting to know how many people signed up to Netflix just to see this. A shame this is the kind of boxing people are interested in, but whatcha gonna do. Maybe this did enough business for Netflix that they'll show more interest in more legitimate matches featuring the top fighters facing each other, because that could honestly be a good thing for boxing for sure.

This fight hurt Jake Paul's future a hell of a lot more than he probably expected. I mean for Mike, I get it. Collect 8 digits then go retire to the beach and do podcasts or whatever. For Paul? He did nothing in this fight to draw in any sort of serious audience again. He exposed himself. But he already got paid his own absurd haul so I suppose what does he care. Like I said he could always move solely into promotions if he wants, he is doing fine there.

If the reports of what these guys got paid for that shit show are remotely accurate, I'm happy that Mike probably has enough money set aside now to live extremely comfortably to the end of his days, since he genuinely seems past the point of fucking it up again now. Granted he's still down a couple hundred million because of that rat fuck Don King but nothing can be done about that.

Evander Holyfield probably needs the money more, just saying

That was exactly what any sane person expected it to be. Good for Taylor vs Serrano to get a 72K audience, but man.

The Serrano eyelid cut was fuckin' gross, even by boxing cut standards.

Man, I'm not obsessed with TCG Card Shop Simulator but it's close. What a cozy game. Maybe at some point I'll look into modding it and figuring out how to add even more card types. The Smelly Gamer is the video game enemy of the year.

Gotta get some Megan thee Stallion in there, that woman goes hard

I weigh myself on Fridays, so I can now say I'm officially under 300, 298, for the first time since ????

Not only the funniest outcome but also the most just: Howling

Also, Floyd absolutely killed him with a punch and then held him up to preserve the show, which was funny as hell. I will say this: Paul's undercards have been suprisingly good in terms of showcasing talent people probably don't know. Like, legit better than some of the shit the "real" promoters like top rank and golden boy and whoever have given us for years. He's a douchebag and a youtube showman for a very specific kind of audience I don't like, but he's actually not a bad fight promoter at all. I think long term that would be a career play he could absolutely make if he wanted to.

It's crazy to me how many people online actually think Tyson is going to kill him or something. But as hard as he can hit, he can't really move anymore and since it's likely going the distance I expect him to gas out pretty fast. I'm not expecting it to be a great advertisement for boxing.

https://youtu.be/0zqMNitc0c8?si=00oKJf_4FsodOK-b

Down to 300 officially. 15 down, 30 to go. Trying to start some ab excercises. Jesus christ, you ever want a wake up call about where you're at, that's the ticket. Found this little 8 minute routine designed for people over 40 so it puts minimal stress on the lower back. Figured how hard can it be. lmao We gettin' there one day at a time.