cold metal in my hand

Oh my goodness. Mixed Martial Arts might quite possibly be the most unpredictable sport ever.
Tonight marked the third crazy main event upset in as many UFC events. First we had Randy Couture's return from retirement to dominate Tim Sylvia for the heavyweight belt. Okay, it was surprising, but Couture is a UFC hall-of-famer, so it wasn't that much of a long shot. Then major underdog Matt Serra TKOed welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre, considered one of the most dominant fighters in the weight class. Then tonight, it was PRIDE star and everyone's pick for the future heavyweight champion Mirko "Crop Cop" Filipovic against heavy underdog Gabriel Gonzaga. And Gonzaga won. Not only that... Gonzaga destroyed Cro Cop!

The second best heavyweight fighter in the world, and one of the world's top five pound-for-pound fighters, was just defeated in one of the most insane upsets in MMA history. Actually, upset doesn't even begin to describe it; it looked like Cro Cop's almost ended. Mikco is one of the best strikers in the world, and his kicks are quite possibly the most dangerous in all of MMA. If Gonzaga had any chance at all, people figured he might get Cro Cop on the ground and submit him. Instead, Gonzaga KOs him with the most devastating head kick I have ever seen. That was the last thing anyone could have ever foreseen happening. I'm still completely shocked that it happened. This has to be rigged, it is just too insane. These kind of crazy upsets don't happen in any other sport. While I'm a big Crop Cop fan and was really pulling for him to win, you can't help but enjoy the unpredictability of it all.