I love watching MMA and most things involved with it.  This truly is going to be the next big sport, worldwide.  However, not every fighter is exciting to watch in the ring or even listen to them speak.  Rashad Evans is the ‘guy.’

In the ring, he has been beaten only once professionally.  I have watched many of his fights and never was impressed with a single one.  Surely, he must have some skill to make it to the top in this tough sport of mixed martial arts.  It always seemed his victories were…well, lucky.  He would be beaten the whole fight.  Eventually, he gets that lucky strike that wins it for him.  Or he bores me to death with wrestling the other to the point he controls the fight.  Neither are exciting to me.  He actually puts fear into me that the sport will evolve into what boxing became.

I have not seen an exciting boxing match in years.  Most fights have fighters finding ways to avoid punching each other by hanging on the other guy.  Boring and lame.  Rashad Evans makes me think of those fighters.  I surely do hope that MMA doesn’t go in a similar direction.  What is scary, is that most big name fighters are world class wrestlers.

Back to him being a tool.  It is clear that in this season of The Ultimate Fighter, the producers agree.  He tries very hard to talk trash to “Rampage” Jackson and fails miserably.  Even when he brings up some topic, I think that a Kindergartner on a swingset could drive home with more testosterone.  Rampage just agrees with him now, and he still seems to win the trash talk war.  He can’t even find a way to talk trash about a 5-0 lead over Jackson without looking like a total tool.  Rashad should just stop trying and stick to something less manly.

Finally to get back to my point about the producers, they give him almost no footage during the show.  If it is not him directly coaching, he is a ghost.  Thankfully, Rampage is interesting enough to keep my attention.

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