Random Shots

-so Allen Iverson has decided to come out of (a one week) retirement to rejoin the 76ers ... way to sabatoge my fantasy team AI (I currently hold Andre Iguodala and Samuel Dalembert) ... if it does indeed turn out as I'm forecasting, my hate for him will rise to LeBron James levels ... never really been a fan of AI anyway, because I'm partial to winning ... and please nobody bring up his MVP/Finals year, he needed a late season trade for a prime Dikembe Mutombo to get that done ...

-in the aftermath of Tiger Woods' highly publicized car crash, reports are surfacing of alleged infidelities ... a wealthy, elite level athlete accused of stepping outside his marriage ... really?!?!

-based on reports from ESPN and Yahoo's boxing sites, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has agreed to a fight with Manny Pacquiao, the only thing left is for Pacman to give his seal of approval ... I must say I'm shocked ... what's it been? not even a week of negotiations ... I guess the dollar signs kicked some common sense into Money May ... it's true what they say "money talks" ...

-in what was supposed to be a tune-up fight leading to an overdue rematch with Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jr. was KO'd in the First Round by Danny Green of all people ... like I said on Twitter and Facebook, how the mighty have fallen SMH ... it's just so sad to see a legend go out like this, something that's become all too common in boxing ...

what's up with J-Smooth?

-I'm not one that can play video games by myself for more than half an hour, no matter how good the game is ... it's been no different when playing Punch-Out!! and New Super Mario Bros. Wii ... since getting each game, I've probably spent a total of under 90 minutes on each ... and in Punch Out, I'm closing in on completing "Title Defense Mode", while in Mario Bros., I've already reached World 8 ... this is a message directed to an individual in particular, who's making his homecoming soon and recently challenged me in Street Fighter 4, under-estimating my skills will be your undoing, LOL ...

-finally, I'm currently in the middle of a competition amongst a couple members of the familia, The D-Mac 6-Pack Challenge ... the name of the competition should be self-explanatory ... the end-date is the day before my sister's wedding next July ... all the losers pool together to buy the winner (the one with the best abs) a big meal of their choosing from any restaurant ... at this point, I only have two serious competitors ... I'll say two things ... one: to my competition, start planning a trip to Jollibee and 7/11 into your schedules ... two: this is a thoroughbred race, unless certain individuals decide to grow some juevos, my little ponies out there should stay on the farm ...

~J-Smooth~

Rumble, errr, Ridiculousness at Rama

before people make assumptions about what I'm gonna say ... it's probably the exact opposite ... exactly one week after seeing boxing at its absolute best, I witnessed boxing at its absolute worst ... and the sad part it seemed so promising ... two Pinoys on the card, on the heel's of Manny Pacquiao's masterful performace against Miguel Cotto last Saturday ... I've never seen such a poorly put together event in my life ...

-first, the layout of the arena, where I was sitting, there was a glass divider partially obstructing the view ...

-second, the atmosphere (crowd) completely fit the bill of "polite Canadians" ... totally unenthusiastic, sort of like the ACC during Raptor games ... probably because the people there knew jack sh*t about boxing, and yes that includes most Pinoys in the crowd ...

-the first three fights were actually OK, but the last three had some of the most suspect judging I've ever seen in my life, to say the least ...

-the first of those controversial bouts involved one of the Pinoy pugilists, Ciso Morales ... the way I scored the fight, I only had him winning 2 (3 at most) out of 8 rounds ... but he ended up winning by decision ... and yes, I was yelling "BULLSH*T!" after a Pinoy victory ...

-next up was the Steve Molitor fight, he was knocked down once in the fight and I only had him winning one round at most ... but based on the judges scorecards they had him winning 7 of 8 ... I've seen hometown decisions before, but this was a joke, I was yelling "BULLSH*T!" even louder after this one ... some people sitting around me actually left the arena after that decision ... Molitor IMO was a cookie cutter champion, who was protected in his early career (much like Ricky Hatton) but when he faced a legit opponent last year in Celestino Caballero he got completely exposed ... last night was pretty much a confirmation that he isn't an elite level fighter ...

-the main event of the evening featured "Marvellous" Marvin Sonsona ... who unknowledgable Pinoy fans bill as "The Next Pacquiao" ... before last night, I thought he was a decent fighter with good potential, but I never placed that "next one" tag on him ... early in the fight he seemed to be looking for the one-punch knockout ... but then from the mid-rounds on he looked like he ran out of gas ... one indication of not training hard enough ... the other indication was that he failed to make weight, thus losing his WBO Championship on the scales ... I had Sonsona winning at most 3 rounds ... I thought the draw was a bullsh*t decision, because he clearly lost ...

-Allan Tremblay, the promoter, should be ashamed of himself with how this card came off ... word of advice to him, if he's looking to showcase his fighters, put them up against cream puffs to make them look good ...

-I feel bad for my cousin who forked out $150 for his ticket ...

-Freddie Roach is right ... there is only one Manny Pacquiao ... this search for "the next Pacquiao" needs to stop ... fighters like that are indeed one in a generation ...

-only two highlights of that experience for me ... first, winning some money on the slots, always a winner! ... second, meeting Marvin Sonsona in the lobby before the fight ... he's a nice guy, but I'm thinking the fame after his last win, plus "The Next Pacquiao" tag, has gotten into his head a little bit ... it was cool meeting him, but I was thinking, "it's fight night, shouldn't you be in the lockerroom getting ready?" ... just goes to show, a big victory can have just as adverse effects on a fighter as a first loss ... Sonsona clearly had a let down this time after riding such a high in September ...

-there you have it ... an impartial J-Smooth, telling it how it is, regardless of my Pinoy loyalties ...

~J-Smooth~

Random Shots

-ughhhhh, seems like all I keep hearing about is this New Moon business ... can't escape it no matter where I go ... it's all over TV, on the radio, on newsstands ... on the same level of annoyance for me as Harry Potter ... all I can say is that if you're a dude that goes to the theater to watch New Moon on your own volition, you need to get yourself some panties ...

-speaking of which, while I was in San Diego, my "soon-to-be" bro-in-law Romeo and myself were driving past Hillcrest to pick up some take out ... for those that don't know, Hillcrest is a densely populated homosexual area ... just the way the mannequins were displayed and "posing" in the shop windows, I couldn't help but LOL and SMH ... I've never seen anything like it ... and the people walking around too, V-necks (no exaggerating either) reaching down to dudes' belly buttons ...

-oh man, another current annoyance of mine are the Facebook apps like: Farmville and Mafia Wars, or whatever they're called ... people keep inviting me to that sh*t ... what's worse is that these people are older than me with young kids ... I'm thinkin' are your lives that boring? ... hell, I'll take this a step further, because those same people also annoy me with something else on Facebook and that is their status updates ... F*CK!, I do not need to know every single detail of your life up-to-the-minute ... I must be coming off as a hypocrite, because I have a Twitter account ... but these people I'm talking about are f*ckin' ridiculous: "just clipping my toenails before work", "I just took a dump, is it normal when it's green?" ... well, not exactly verbatim, but I think you catch my drift ...

-I'm lovin' my Blu-ray player/Playstation 3 ... I'm sayin', if it can clean up my DVDs that well, BDs must be the greatest thing since sliced bread ... but with prices for BDs still not at practical levels, I'll reserve those purchases for visual effects movies that rate a 3.5 at least on my rating scale ... a mark I guarantee Star Trek won't even come close to ... ;P

-funny how everyone nowadays is claiming that they're a boxing expert ... honestly, there are only a handful of people all together and more specifically two in my familia that I can have an intelligent boxing convo with ... my dad being one and my Kuya M being the other ... everyone else in the familia is a Manny Pacquiao nuthugger ... nothing wrong with that and completely understandable, but their knowledge of the actual sport extends no further than Pacquiao and namedropping past and potential future opponents ... but I guess that's just how most people are, not just in my familia, they only start jumping on board when something is hot ...

~J-Smooth~