After a long and extensive process, esteemed colleague Brent Brookhouse and I are proud to bring you the 2011 Bloody Elbow Tournament of Bad, an idea from the local Chicago sports radio show, Boers and Bernstein. The concept is simple: compile a list of 64 of the worst things related to the sport of MMA and pit them against one another in an NCAA Tournament-style bracket. You, the readers, vote on each match up until we have our ultimate champion.
We kicked off the Sweet Sixteen yesterday in the Jon Hess and Art Jimmerson Regions. Polls will stay open for those matchups until midnight ET tonight. You can check out the full bracket here.
Today's matchups:
Harold Howard Region
(12) Aleksander Emelianenko competing with Hepatitis C vs. (16) Male fighters with tramp stamps
(3) Kazushi Sakuraba's right ear vs. (7) UFC's Youtube policy
(3) Kazushi Sakuraba's right ear vs. (7) UFC's Youtube policy
Steve Jennum Region
(8) Cecil Peoples, in every form vs. (13) Tito Ortiz's postfight excuses
(2) Bob Reilly and the (lack of) regulation in NY vs. (3) "Never leave it in the hands of the judges"
(2) Bob Reilly and the (lack of) regulation in NY vs. (3) "Never leave it in the hands of the judges"
Photos courtesy of Fight! Magazine, Susumu Nagao, Jeff Sherwood, Sherdog, Stephen Morrison, Youtube, Dave Mandel, Masa Fukui, Google Image Search, and MSPaint.
Voting after the jump. Polls close at midnight ET tomorrow.
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