I Hope That Jake Shields Gives Mayhem Miller an Attitude Adjustment

In the old Western movies I loved to watch with my father, when I was around seven, it was easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys by looking at the color of the hats they wore.

He pointed this fact out to me then, and it remained true for a very long time. In the world of MMA, Jake Shields would be wearing white and Jason "Mayhem" Miller would be wearing black.

Of course in MMA, the color would be in the shorts, since no hats would last very long in the fast moving action within the cage.

Symbolism aside, I see Jake as being very pure of heart, while Jason is more sinister in nature and deserves to wear black to match his less than pure nature.

Although perhaps not literally true, I think of Jake as having been raised in the goodness of nature out in the wilderness, home schooled and untainted by the unwholesome element that has invaded our school and urban society.

Jake has respect for the natural world and has taken a stand for animal rights, even advocating for a bill to have farm animals raised in a natural environment rather than penned up in factory-type farms.

This has made him a soul mate of mine as I advocate for animal rights and the environment in which we live.

Having been a teacher in the school system which is rapidly declining in America, I see the value in home schooling and have sought to educate my grandchildren, though they are attending public schools.

I am proud of their vocabulary and reading skills as well as the artistic skills I have helped them achieve.

Therefore, Jake Shields is a personal hero of mine and I am hoping that he will put a big time beat-down on Jason Miller who feels like an archenemy of mine. He has a wild, and to me somewhat antisocial personality which clashes with  many of my ideals.

Now I can almost hear my readers complaining loudly that Jason hosts a show called "Bully Beatdown," which they may feel has some socially redeeming value. Well, unfortunately, I disagree completely with their argument in regards to that program.

While I see that the money Miller makes from the show may be very useful to him, I do not think the format of the show is realistically of much value to society.

It is not what it is represented as being and does not teach any real lessons to bullies or decrease the socially unacceptable behavior that bullies demonstrate, especially in our school system. In fact I feel it encourages the theory that "might makes right."

Mayhem himself represents the type of bully that prompted Georges St-Pierre to take up karate in his youth. Thankfully when Georges met Mayhem in the octagon, he did come away as the victor and put the hurt on Miller that I hope Shields will be fully able of duplicating.

After the match, Mayhem, ever the loudmouth smart-ass that he is, started complaining about "Georges feeling slippery" which later helped give rise to the rumor that Georges was greasing.

That was a common practice at the time, and it has been proven that Matt Hughes and Rich Franklin greased for their fights, so I fail to see that Georges did anything that other highly ranked fighters have done. Miller strikes me as being a cry baby.

Many fighters who have cried wolf in regards to greasing have done so themselves, so to me, Miller is also suspect.

Greasing or griping about it after a fight aside, I have never liked Mayhem. People like or dislike fighters for many different reasons, and I like them have my own favorites and have never apologised for it.

Now that Strikeforce is trying to find a Welterweight champion, I am hoping that Jake Shields will be the won to win the right to wear the belt.

Although there is a possibility that this will one day bring Shields to the UFC to face off against Georges St.-Pierre, I will face that bridge when we come to it, or hope that one of them will move up a weight and not have the other in his sites.

Nov. 7 will be a big night for me as I cheer for both Fedor and Jake Shields to make Grandma happy to be an MMA fan by winning their respective matches, thus cementing Strikeforce as a worthy competitor to the UFC.