Mercer ko's Sylvia

Never, in my wildness dreams, did I ever imagine that I would be writing the following sentence: 48-year-old Ray Mercer knocked out former UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia in 9 seconds in their fight this past weekend.

Mercer, who had never fought a professional MMA fight in his life (his fight with Kimbo Slice was an exhibition), shocked the world in beating the former UFC heavyweight champion in 9 seconds. This fight had problems right from the beginning as no one would sanction it as a boxing match so in the end, it became a MMA fight two or three days before the fight happened. Now if it had been a boxing match, and Mercer had knocked out Sylvia, I would not have at all been surprised. Yes Mercer is 48, but he is a professional boxer and Sylvia is not. I would not have expected it to happen in 9 seconds, but I still would have expected it to happen. But this was a MMA fight. This is what Sylvia has trained for a long time and was once damn good at. Now, he is the biggest laughing stalk in the MMA world today.

I did not see this coming. Anyone who did say this was stoned out of their mind when they said it before the fight. Even when Sylvia came in at 310 pounds, nobody in their wildest dreams expected Sylvia to go down in defeat to Ray Mercer in this fight. Sylvia is an MMA fighter and Mercer is not. Tim Sylvia was a top ten fighter coming into this fight. Mercer was a 48-year-old guy who had never fought mma before. Barring me knocking out Fedor in December, this will be the biggest upset of the year and something that people will remember for a long, LONG time.