The Maine-iac and the kick from hell
Tim "The Maine-iac" Sylvia is up next. Maine-iac, as in, he's from Ellsworth, Maine. I like Tim Sylvia, but boy does he need a win tonight. Sylvia won the heavyweight title a couple years back, then had to forfeit the belt when he came up positive for steroids. After serving a suspension, he came back and fought current champ Frank Mir, but had his forearm snapped in one of UFC's more nasty injuries in recent years.
Sylvia's back from his injury, and facing Tre Telligman. Telligman's whole crew comes to the ring with T-shirts that say "Jesus." I had 12 years of Catholic schooling and don't recall the scripture passage in which Jesus advocated choking people out, but then, I didn't always pay attention in class.
Telligman does not have a right pectoral muscle because of injuries sustained in an auto accident as a child. Rogan tactlessly says "that looks weird." I take back my earlier comments about Rogan. You have to be a moron not to respect someone who would overcome such a handicap and become a combat fighter.
All standup early on, lots of circling, not much punching, crowd getting a bit restless. Sylvia's 6-8, so I can't blame Telligman for trying to pick his spots. Sylvia hits a couple shots and opens up a cut under Tre's eye.
Omigod … seconds before the bell, Sylvia knocked Telligman cold with an unbelievably nasty kick to the head. Damn. Wow. He didn't throw a kick the entire round, then pulls that baby out of nowhere. I mean, we're talking, a video-game type picture-perfect kick. The only way he could have topped that is if he did that Lu Kang thing from the first Mortal Kombat where he threw fireballs and then did a flying kick. Wow.
Seriously, how does someone 6-8 with a soft stomach have the flexibility to deliver a kick like that? I'm 6-3 and I can't get my leg up like that, period, never mind try to angle a kick to someone's head.
Great win for Sylvia. He's still behind Mir and Andrei Arlovsky in the heavyweight scene, but he's solidly back in the picture.
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