BUT WILL JON FAVREAU BECOME THE ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPION? I always hate to link to WSJ stories because of the whole paid-subscription requirement, but there's a nice piece there this morning on the surging popularity of Ultimate Fighting and the perhaps commensurate decline of boxing.
For those, like me, whose knowledge of Ultimate Fighting comes entirely from Friends, "Ultimate Fighting is a so-called mixed martial-arts event that combines karate, judo, jiu-jitsu, boxing, wrestling and old-fashioned street fighting. The result is a sport that features many more ways for combatants -- wearing thin, fingerless gloves, not the padded boxing kind -- to effect maximum carnage." It has its own "universal 'mercy' signal" -- banging a hand on the mat to indicate pleeeeease, lemme go! And, of course, Paris Hilton is apparently a fan.
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