Man sports


Monday night's watch-wrestling night at Dogboy's so I went over to catch Raw. Five minutes before the show starts, someone mentions MMA (mixed martial arts), and there's a big debate about the various nuances - a difficult word to say after several beers. Then Old Mike (as opposed to Mike 2 and Biker Mike, whose name isn't Mike but is called Mike . . .) starts in on Ali-Frazier, because boxing is the only real man sport, except they don't box like that any more.

"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Tommy asked.

Everybody stared at him. He did the next beer run for penance.