Last night as I sat in the bar with May and others, the television mounted above our heads began to show something I can only tentatively describe as bare-knuckle boxing. I realized this because I looked across the table in the middle of a sentence to find May staring upward with his eyes wide and his mouth open, while on the screen two muscled men locked their legs around each other and pressed their foreheads together.
By the third round we were all watching. One of the boxers had a wound along his hairline; it looked as though a bit of his scalp had pulled off and was flapping as he moved. I’ve never seen anyone bleed the way he did. He dripped blood all over his opponent’s face and in long trails over the mat. His white-blonde hair turned pink, and then pinker. He bled so much he made a little pool around the two of them, smeared in broad red strokes. He poured his blood onto the ground.
And all I could think to myself as I watched him, jaw-dropped, was “Oh god, I hope they make the boxers take STD tests.”
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Mmmmm…. UFC. So hot. (Although you may have been watching something different, I think the general hot sweaty men wrestling and/or bleeding principles apply.) (And often they hug at the end of a match! So adorable.)
For those interested, this was the Gideon Ray vs. Edwin DeWees match on SpikeTV’s Ultimate Fighter Champsionships or something along those lines. I was really too busy looking at the half-naked men to pay too much attention to much else.
Mixed martial arts, the greatest sport there is. For your peace of mind, fighters in such events are typically required to take blood tests before their fights. There are mma schools and events in Australia, you know, in case you’d like to watch it live. Or either of you could actually stop by a gym, for either eye candy or actual training, or to ask about local events…http://www.sinosicperosh.com.au/ might be a good place to start. Or just type George St. Pierre into google image search for a faster eye candy fix.
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