
(Tim Sylvia — undisputed heavyweight champion of the Comfort Inn.)
Remember that thing about Tim Sylvia boxing a 50-year-old man? Yeah, that’s happening this Saturday, in the main event of "Adrenaline MMA III: Bragging Rights" at the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center. MMA Junkie has the list of the MMA fights that will be supporting Sylvia/Mercer, and they’re only slightly less pointless than the show-closing boxing exhibition.
For instance, you’ve got Rich "No Love" Clementi taking on a guy named Sasuke Zapata, who isn’t quite established enough to have a fighter profile on Sherdog or mixedmartialarts.com. (You can get a shaky look at him here.) Then, there’s Jeremy Horn with his 104 career fights taking on the allegedly 5-0 Chris Davis, who might be one of these guys. Also, jiu-jitsu-champ-turned-MMA-fighter Roberto Traven takes on John Salter, who you might have heard of if you’re related to him. Anyway, I just don’t have the energy to cut-and-paste, so if you really want to look at the complete lineup for this show, click away. And speaking of boxing…
Andrei Arlovski, whose beep-beep-beep Tim Sylvia may have inadvertently tasted at some point, will have to wait even longer to make his pro boxing debut, due to a 60-day precautionary medical suspension resulting from his knockout loss to Brett Rogers at Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields. MMA Mania recaps Arlovski’s bad luck with the sweet science:


What a fucking douche bag!