Huh ? And some people what's wrong with America? I saw this article from the New York Times...
Alive and Thriving in the Midwest: Brawling in Cages
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., July 23 - When they rewind the video of the fight in the cage, all the blood will spray back into Gervis Fool Bull's nose, all the screams will be sucked into the collective chest of the sweating crowd, and the fist will snap back toward the big truck driver from Iowa who threw it, a man with a mohawk haircut who grew up fighting his twin brother in the neighborhood junkyard.
But to find where this punch between strangers really began, the rewinding would have to go back almost three weeks, to the Fourth of July in the lakeside tourist town of Okoboji, Iowa, where the twin brothers were prowling around, drinking, not liking tourists.
"My goal that night was to beat up the biggest tourist I could find," said Nate Hawn, 20.
He picked a marine, he said, and beat him in the crowded streets. A stranger approached, and the Hawns wondered if he wanted some, too.
The man said that he worked with a promoter of cage fighting and that the guys should come to Sioux Falls in a few weeks. "He said, 'You guys are exactly what we're looking for,' " the brother with the mohawk, Ryan Hawn, recalled.
The brothers arrived on Saturday at "The Cage," a no-holds-barred night of one-on-one fights between men shut inside an outdoor chain-link cage here at the W. H. Lyon Fairgrounds. In a sport known by practically interchangeable names - extreme fighting, no-holds-barred fighting, cage fighting - fighters can use boxing, kickboxing, martial arts or wrestling moves, or any combination. Opponents have called it "human cockfighting," a brutish pseudo-sport.
Isn't America great? While the thought of putting GW and Connie in a cage to fight Kerry and Colin Powell, almost sounds interesting; I still think is a bit appalling...
I wonder if the East and West coast could just form its own country and those middle states could just do their own thing?
Just like last week, when I was waiting for my take out (in Chinatown) when this little boy said (loudly), "LOOK MOMMY - CHINESE PEOPLE". Yeah, they were so from Des Moines.....
dood, i am from iowa, okoboji. i know the kid who was in the cage fight and no we arent hicks and we dont all farm. we are the same as people in NYC or LA except a hole lot nicer. so we can steriotype all we want or shut up.
ps. i go to school in ames which is 30 miles from des moines and i assure u there are a lot of "chinese people" here. duh
Posted by: chuck | August 20, 2005 at 04:42 PM
Chuck can't spell!! People from the Midwest are stupid!!!
Posted by: Some guy from Okoboji | August 20, 2005 at 11:53 PM