{"id":541,"date":"2006-07-18T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T09:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/07\/the-ultimate-showdown\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T09:37:24","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T09:37:24","slug":"the-ultimate-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/07\/18\/the-ultimate-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cool to see that the UFC, Pride, and K1 have gained such wide acceptance in the States. There was a time when UFC was struggling to do this, and when few others knew any but the most famous names in mixed martial arts.<br \/>\nBut there is a downside to the popularity of MMA. If you don&#8217;t immediately watch the fights, there is a significant risk of having someone spoil them for you, as when a certain Mr. A. had to hint to the outcome last night:<br \/>\nA: Did you see Tito fight Shamrock?<br \/>\nB: No, we&#8217;re going to download and watch it later.<br \/>\nA. Dude, it was over in a second!<br \/>\nB. You a-hole, why did you have to say anything?<br \/>\nA. It was kind of predictab&#8230;<br \/>\nB. Shut up!<br \/>\nIf you are one of these people, keep the outcome to yourself until everyone who wants to see it gets a chance to!<br \/>\nThis isn&#8217;t a UFC fight, but you might enjoy it nonetheless. See how many references you can spot&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blitz-arcade.com\/games\/files\/ultimateshowdown.swf\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cool to see that the UFC, Pride, and K1 have gained such wide acceptance in the States. There was a time when UFC was struggling to do this, and when few others knew any but the most famous names in mixed martial arts. But there is a downside to the popularity of MMA. If &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/07\/18\/the-ultimate-showdown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}