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Any day when the news doesn't involve a fighter getting injured, a fighter failing a drug screening or a fighting going to jail is a good one, and hey, today looks like a good one. A well-liked scrapper is switching weight classes again, a co-main event fighter has given his upcoming bout a thumbs-up, a heavyweight wants his title shot, and another fighter went to the doctor, but that's it. No cuts requiring stitches, no marijuana metabolites and no 40-person brawls ? as the indomitable Ice Cube would say, "It was a good day."
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UFC bantamweight and longtime MMA veteran Ivan Menjivar announced today that he intends to run for public office in Quebec. The 30-year-old Menjivar, who was born in El Salvador but has resided in Canada for most of his life, will be seeking a legislative position with the National Assembly of Quebec, under the "Parti de la Classe Moyenne du Quebec" (translation: Party of the Middle Class of Quebec, or PCMQ) in the Anjou-Louis-Riel district.
Said Menjivar via Twitter:
Je suis fier de porte ma candidature pour la circonscription Anjou-Louis-Riel. Comme member du Parti de la Classe Moyenne du Quebec! (Loose translation: "I am proud to carry the nomination for the Anjou-Louis-Riel district as a member of the Party of the Middle Class of Quebec!")
À touts mes amis facebookys s.v.p passe le mots: je suis candidat pour le PCMQ pour Anjou-Louis-Riel merci. (Loose translation: "To all my Facebookys please pass the word: I am a candidate for the PCMQ for Anjou-Louis-Riel. Thanks.")
Menjivar further stated that his platform includes addressing the war on corruption and the ethics of political parties, as well as the improvement of the health care system and access to a family doctor.
A brown belt in jiu-jitsu and member of the famed Tristar Gym in Montreal, Menjivar has long been known as a competitor who is unafraid of facing tough challenges, and can count among his past opponents such MMA stars as UFC welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre, former UFC featherweight champ Urijah Faber, and former UFC welterweight champ Matt Serra. Menjivar made his UFC debut at UFC 48, which took place on June 19, 2004. Since returning to the Octagon after a nearly seven-year hiatus, Menjivar has won four out of five fights.
Menjivar is not the first accomplished mixed martial artist to run for office. Other notable pugilistic politicians include: top middleweight contender Chael Sonnen, who ran for a position in the Oregon State Legislature; former top middleweight contender Matt Lindland, who also sought a position in the Oregon State Legislature; and retired UFC welterweight Chris Lytle, who ran in the Indiana State Senate race. None were successful.
WWE Performer AW, most recently featured as the manager of the Primetime Players (Darren Young and Titus O’Neil), was released yesterday from his contract. AW ran into trouble on RAW on July 30, when he made a regrettable and decidedly non-PG joke referencing Kobe Bryant‘s alleged sexual assault in Colorado. He made his final appearance on Smackdown last Friday night, accompanying the Players to the ring for a match with his usual headset mic.
WWE officials confirmed the move on the company’s website.
WWE confirmed on TMZ that the Bryant remark led to AW’s release, stating, “Unfortunately, Brian Jossie, playing the character of A.W. was terminated because he continued to exhibit poor judgment by making offensive and inappropriate comments on live television and on social media.”
AW took to Twitter to get a few last words in, writing, “AWPromotions is no more ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your support and hate, it’s been a great run. Now I get to do me which isn’t PG! @TitusONeilWWE & @DarrenYoungWWE thank you for allowing me to speak on your behalf. You guys are the best and I’m glad to call u my friends! Let this be a lesson to up and coming talent in the WWE don’t try and be great like the Rock or Stone Cold. WWE isn’t the same…”
“Thanks to the fans who showed me support over the whole Kobe thing and to those I upset I apologize again. Remember it’s entertainment folks,” AW continued. “I really do hope Linda wins that election because If not then all of this BS has been for nothing. #GoLinda!! Thank you WWE for creating me and then killing me because I only portrayed what I grew up watching… The #WWE!!”
No word has surfaced on how The Primetime Players will be handled or how AW’s removal from the group will be addressed.
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Missed Smackdown this week? We got the whole gosh darn thing right here, plus my take on what you definitely need to check out. After all, what better time to make sure you’re fully ready for tonight’s Monday Night RAW than with a little Monday morning action?
In addition to pointing to the bouts that should be required viewing I’ll also give you a little background on each as well as some thoughts on the finished product.
DON’T MISS: Chris Jericho‘s Highlight Reel segment featuring Vickie Guerrero and–briefly–Dolph Ziggler. The likely show-stealer between Ziggler and Jericho was officially confirmed for Summerslam, right before Ziggler took Y2J out with a Vickie-assisted Zig-Zag.
Daniel Bryan and Kane continued their build to a Summerslam match, with some help from AJ, doing double duty last week after a busy night Generally Managing RAW. AJ showed a little more of the manic kookiness that captured our hearts than she has over the last few weeks, and Bryan shouting at the crowd and descending into madness is as fun as always.
If you’re interested in revisiting a slightly significant and soon to be wiped away moment of WWE history, you can check out AW‘s very last session of shilling for the Primetime Players, filmed before AW was let go on Friday. The Players again became top contenders to the tag team championship by winning their match via DQ, when AW goaded the easily excitable champs Kofi Kingston and R-Truth into interfering in their match against Primo and Epico. Primo and Epico are currently without Rosa Mendes as she deals with awful-seeming personal circumstances. Hope we get to see Rosa back shimmying suggestively soon.
A match between Cody Rhodes and Sin Cara should have a lot more fireworks to it than they did on Friday, but it’s worth a look. The roll-up for Sin Cara after three minutes could set something up between them, though, which is good for two guys who have been floating around a bit aimlessly lately like two very athletic jellyfish. Rey Mysterio and Intercontinental Champion The Miz had an aggressive, brief match of their own, but let’s take it easy on the rollup finishes for a while, okay?
And speaking of short but sweet, the brief, quick-paced Christian vs. Antonio Caesaro match, accompanied as usual by Aksana. Caesaro, whose European uppercut is a top reason to watch Smackdown these days, is pretty excellent at this whole wrestling thing and Christian is of course basically incapable of having bad matches.
MISS THIS: I am not into this Alberto Del Rio-Sheamus feud, and (spoiler alert, I guess) going on with that storyline about ADR’s stolen burrito poop car was bad enough. But it was worse pretending to care a non-match between them that it eventually became pretty clear wasn’t going to happen because it was starting at 9:57. I have enjoyed many Sheamus matches, but his character these days is such a smug, bullying bastard in the same awful Triple H babyface mold that I have trouble caring about stuff he does. Next to Sheamus, Del Rio doesn’t seem all that arrogant or entitled, which is a problem when he’s supposed to be the bad guy.
Ryback super-ultra beat up two guys who had just gotten beat up by Jinder Mahal. Come on, Ryback, beat on your own jobbers.
Catch the show below:
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