Bob Sapp (11-13-1) does the unsurprising again, treating the ring like a diving pool for the nth time and giving Greg Louganis a run—or dive—for his money.
No one is surprised except those who’ve been living under the rock of UFC since it bought Pride FC, or whose first taste of an MMA spectacle was via Poland’s Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki (KSW) XIX main event last night, which featured a first-round 39-second TKO (punches) of Sapp in the heavy hands of Mariusz Pudzianowski (4-2-1 NC).
Pudzianowski, the hometown fighter, who holds the record for winning the most World’s Strongest Man titles with five, really need not be a strongman in handing his opponent a defeat—the latter’s sixth straight since losing to a certain Stav Economou on March 11, 2011.
The charade goes on, and perhaps the only benefit that fans can gain from further watching “Sapp fight” (which has become synonymous to “entering and leaving the ring”) is pecuniary: winning on bets on when he’s going to tap or flop.
Based on the average of his last six fights, the safest is 1:36.5, and yes, all in the first round. (I can’t believe I actually computed this.)
You bet on the dot or closest to the time of stoppage, you win. So, ready with the shirt on your back this coming May 18 when Sapp takes on Soa Palelei at Cage Fighting Championship 21 in Sydney.
On a serious note, I’ll end this with some pathos for the pathetic, from my assessment of Sapp in a previous article:
The man-mountain is now nothing more than a big chunk of carcass being fed time and time again to fighters with a little more noble aspiration. The latter are circling vultures, on a glide, hovering and waiting their turn to peck at the ton of semi-animate meat conveniently lain on the canvas.
Vultures, like this scribbler who has nothing else to do on a lazy Sunday morn (PHL time) but to exploit Sapp’s ingenious way of making a living, for the sake of posting an article before going to Mass.
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