Can "Bones" Break the "Hammer" in UFC Action?

Here I go again, writing an article when I cannot remember all the facts I would like to be able to use for it. I can hear you young folks groaning at this old girls deficits and wondering why the hell I persist in writing any way.

It is hard to explain in full, but when I get an inspiration I feel compelled to write, regardless of the facts. If I can't remember, I am sure one of my many educated readers will supply me with the facts, even though by then, the article will have been published. Gotta love the fans!

So, after learning that a new face in the UFC may soon be competing with one of my favorite "old faces," I am busy at my keyboard again.

Jon "Bones" Jones is not just a recent discovery of mine. He has a perfect 9-0 record, though I have only seen two or three of those fights myself, I am completely mesmerized by his awesome talent.

Seeing him perform a mind blowing suplex sent me back to a scene from my favorite, very realistically portrayed novel turned movie, Vision Quest. Having read the novel first and making both sons and my husband read it too, sent us all hustling off to our local theater to see Mathew Modine playing the hero and wondering how true to the book the action scenes would be.

For any MMA/wrestling fan reading this, I recommend the book and movie very highly. I was not able to put the book down once I started reading it and the movie was a tremendous treat. I would have given it Academy Awards in every category if had been within my power.

Before I forget my point, there was a scene where a highly ranked wrestler defeated his opponent after delivering a suplex that could kill. The only evidence I have witnessed in my life that has come close to it was when Jones suddenly suplexed Jake O'Brien and won the match. Such power is awesome to behold.

This superman suplex rattled my teeth though I was watching from home and was nowhere near the arena. How Jones managed the feat and how O'Brien survived it, I have no idea. It was like watching my husband throw a runaway horse at a horse show and throw it before it got to the highway. A superhuman effort fueled by pure strength and adrenaline.

Ordinarily, as impressed as I am by "Bones," I would want him to defeat any opponent he meets, however he is meeting another exceptional individual whom I also greatly admire. Oh the agony!

Grandma suffers so much when matches like these loom on the horizon! Though eager for the event to arrive and then be over, the thought of one of my favorite fighters losing is so painful. I am an empath and soak up the pain of people I feel particularly close to, and yes, before you ask—my groin hurt too! I am not ashamed to admit it.

Matt Hamill has somehow been able to rise above his disability in life and become a phenomenal wrestler in the UFC. Although people made fun of him while he was on the TUF series, and Michael Bisping in particular degraded him as a fighter and a person, I thought he was a very exceptional individual to overcome all that he had to even to compete on the show.

Not only is Matt very talented, he is more compassionate than anyone else I have seen on the TUF show. He works with disabled children and coaches wrestling, taking time out of training to meet a young girl and the meeting with him "sent her over the moon," according to her parents.

Matt is a very hard worker and is a very straight forward meat and potatoes type fighter. His strength is very great, but he does not to anything that is very fancy. I will always feel that Matt lost to his idol and friend Rich Franklin more due to his feelings for the man, than due to lack of ability. As I said, he is so compassionate that I don't think he could bear to fight all out against a friend.

Jones has the raw strength, size and ability to be a threat to anyone. Even though Matt benefits from being able to tune out the noise and distractions of the crowd will work for him in some ways, but as fast as Jones is, Matt's deafness will make it hard for his coaches to help him during a fast paced fight.

They could yell until blue in the face to absolutely no avail, Matt can only be coached when he sees them: what are the chances of him having time to study the lips of his coaches while fighting off Jones?

Same old dilemma! Grandma is going to suffer either way. I only hope that whoever loses will not get ejected from UFC contention afterwards.

In life, all is not fair.