Bullshido's full of opinionated sons of grinches. It's a given that if there's something to be talked about, there are 20,000 people for it, and 20,000 people against it, on our humble little fora*.

So that's why it's only natural that we're rolling out our new Reviews section, where you gear buying, supplement taking, movie watching, instructional purchasing, fighter criticising jerks can put your opinions and personal expertise down for the world, with nifty little ratings in pretty colors.

Most of you are familiar with our Dojo Reviews section, and even our Energy Drink reviews done by the Pope of the Caffeine Church, GoldenJonas. This is basically the same thing, only with a wider range of topics.

The new Reviews section includes:

• [b]Martial Arts Movie...

Bullshido has, what we call a "history" , with registered sex offender and mixed martial arts fighter Ralph Calvillo aka Layn Von Erich.

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=73599

In this article I commented that one could find Ralph on Dallas Craig's List making friends and influencing people who don't know about his previous conviction for attempted sexual assault.

Despite knowing that Bullshido watches Craig's List, Ralph/Layn evidently wanted more attention so he recently posted the above ad with his girlfriend and we screen captured it.

Yup, Ralphie likes to Swing!

Previously on March 15, 2008 Bullshido member Josh Artigue had briefly met Sarah [last name with-held], Ralph's girlfriend and future co-swinger, at a MMA event in Louisiana where Ralph was scheduled to fight. After apparently having an argument with Sarah, Ralph left the venue less then a half an hour before his fight without informing Gill Guillory his promoter.

She was...

You know, I've always wanted to write a "Forward" to something.

I remember growing up and reading BBMag as a teenager. I diligently "tried out" the techniques and absorbed every bit of the pearls of wisdom contained between its covers.

It took me entirely too long to realize that a "Black Belt", in most cases, didn't mean much and often meant very little. It took even longer to arrive at the understanding that people who place importance on the color of a belt to such a degree, often do so because they're unwilling to measure the actual fighting skill it supposedly represents.

Too few black belts represent one's fighting ability. Most these days either serve as indicators of how long a parent has dutifully sent their child and check to the local McDojo, or a last line of defense for keeping closed a gi belonging to an aging "martial artist" against the force of his ever-growing gut.

Regardless, this isn't about the concept of a belt ranking system as much...

Revolution Fight League Proving Ground - Louisville, KY - July 26, 2008


This was the second RFL event that I have attended (see previous report here. I admit that I was curious if their production would be as solid as the last one I attended. I have to say this one was even better. They seem to have grasped the fact that for the time being they will have smaller crowds. This event took place at the Broadbent arena which seats a little over 6,000. The RFL dropped a curtain to cut the venue's size in half. Because of this there wasn't really a bad seat in the house. The cage, as usual, was terrific. It is every bit the quality of events like the WEC. The event itself ran very smoothly without any problems between fights. There was a DJ to keep music playing at all times between fights. There were also dancers for entertainment during intermissions. The production value keeps getting better. In fact the...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/sp...ewanted=1&_r=1

By PETE THAMEL, NY Times, July 26, 2008

A high-ranking USA Judo official has been accused of drugging and sexually molesting teenage competitors he coached in the late 1970s, accusations that resurfaced last month in Internet postings by one of the sport’s top athletes.

On Friday, the United States Olympic Committee announced that it had begun a formal inquiry upon learning of the accusations in recent weeks and that it would have an independent counsel investigate the claims.

“These are serious allegations, and they will receive the attention and priority they deserve,” said Darryl Seibel, a spokesman for the U.S.O.C.

One of the sport’s national groups, the United States Judo Association, has suspended the official, Fletcher Thornton. But the sport’s most prominent organization, USA Judo, which oversees 8,000 athletes and the Olympic team, has taken no action. Thornton is on...

We really couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.

LAst September by accident we tripped over Layn Von Erich who turned out to be Ralph Calvillo, who turned out to be a registered sex offender. We then found out that when not losing MMA fights, Layn/Ralph was also advertising that he provided massages, even though he was unlicensed to provide massage therapy.

To fully understand this train wreck please go to posts #483 and #484 of the following thread.

Or you can meet Ralphie through the Dallas Craig's List for whatever services he happens to be peddling this week.

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/show...=58930&page=49