BRAD"THE BULL"SAWYER[8-2-1am] IS NOW RANKED ***8TH***
IN THE WORLD AT 170 POUNDS.
I understand why they won't let me fight Brad again. He's becoming a known fighter in the amateur ranks, and they want to keep building his record. Pat Harvey came all the way from Nebraska to fight him, hoping a win would boost his ranking. Unfortunately, Brad is pretty damn good, standing up and on the ground, and Brad bulldogged him out the gate; some say Pat offered to touch gloves and instead Brad hit him - I wa there, but I would have to look at the fight again to tell you what reeally happened.
So I want to become a known fighter also. It wasn't too long ago not many people knew who Urijah Faber was, or Kimbo Slice. Now they are making fat cash fighting in big shows. And there are many other fighters, even fighters with losing records, that still fight in the UFC. There's reasons for that: the UFC is a show, and if you're a good fighter that puts on a good show, they will keep paying you to lose. Everyone wants to win; that's part of what makes us participate in the roughest sport in the world.
In the NFL, NASCAR, NHL, MLS, in every major league the players go into their matches hoping to not get hurt. We go into our matches hoping to not get hurt TOO MUCH. Cause we gonna get smacked. We gonna get kicked. We gonna get slammed and jammed, grounded and pounded, sprawlin' and brawlin' all in the caged-in ring. Have you ever seen RIOHEROES? Look it up on youtube - it's bare-knuckle full-contact fighting in Brazil. They fight in a square/rectangle room that has a solid back wall that you can really slam your opponents into...
anyway, they won't give me the money I want to fight Brad (legally, in my state, amateurs are NOT ALLOWED TO GET PAID TO FIGHT. So the promoter walks off with 20-50k for every event, but doesn't have to pay the guys who train their hearts out and lay it all on the line in the cage...
