Review: Battlefield at the River Rock

Blogtrot got taken out to a local mma event taking place at the river rock resort and casino. While, I am a fight fan, this was my first live mma event. Battlefield at the river rock kicked off last night with a long list of competitors. The main event of the evening was Chris Day taking on Gurdarshan Mangat, two Canadian fighters who’ve been getting a lot of buzz. A co main event was also billed with a well disciplined Matt Dwyer taking on Jacen Brooks.. All in all the experience was a good one. The crowd was strong and well behaved, even with peppering of Ed Hardy and Affliction shirted juice monkeys. I’m still a proponent to the law that if it looks like a shirt was made with a bedazzler, no man should wear it. Anyways, back to the event, the main card had three or four great fights, likely, with the Dwyer one standing out for me. Of course, as with any event, there’s always going to be a few oddities, this one included Steven Seagal at ringside. No celebrities though.

Thankfully the showtime commentary was left to mike Goldberg. The other crazy bit was some dude thought it’d be a good idea to propose to his girl at the event. The announcer called some seat number for a ‘raffle’ and when the couple came into the ring, it turned out to feel like a demented episode of punk’d. The dude got down on one knee and asked his lady to be the source of 80% of his frustrations in life, and she said yes. Ok, so, he didn’t say it like that. But, what the hell is so romantic about standing in a pool of blood? Maybe, its just seeing two men grapple and hug it out in the ring that brings out the love in folks. All in all, solid event, and aside from a couple of technical difficulties with the cage and a slightly longer than it should’ve been intermission, it was good night for MMA in Vancouver.