George Foreman hearts Mike Vick and grills. But mostly grills.

The other day the good lads at Construda passed along a link to me which contained Mike Vick's remorseful letter to Judge Hudson. They also mentioned that George Foreman was one of the people who wrote a letter of support for Vick, and that Foreman hawked his grill in the letter at the same time.

That is indeed correct. But I think we need to make it better known what exactly George said. Let's have a quick read of the pdf:

Dear Judge Hudson:

I'm a fulltime minister at the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Houston, Texas, former two-time Heavyweight Champion of the world, and known all over the world as the king of the grills because of the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine.

But the real story is that as a young boy I prowled the streets of Houston, TX as a thief.....

I think the real story, George, is that you're making a ridiculously shameful (and hilarious) ploy to get, um, I guess the judge and his legal staff to buy your grills. After all, there's profit to be had, and nothing says capitalism like advertising your product in a letter of support for the leader of a dogfighting ring.

If I were the judge, I would have given Vick life after reading Foreman's letter.

By the way, I'd like to mention that Hank Aaron also wrote a letter of support for Mike Vick and never brought up that he was a Hall of Famer or the true home run king. Nor did he hawk a grill.

-WCK

Boxing refs are tougher than you think

We did a post last week that did fairly well that involved a ref getting clocked so hard by a boxer that he went cross-eyed. Well, in the interest of equal time, we think we owe it to the reffing community to post this. Yes, you may have seen this before, but we don't care. Someone needs to step up and show the world that refs won't stand for being beaten on by boxers. And we are willing to do that.

Something tells us this is what Joey Crawford would have done to Tim Duncan.

-100%

Being a boxing ref is dangerous

Put boxing ref up there as yet another job I wouldn't do. He gets hit so hard he goes cross-eyed.

-WCK

Roy Jones Jr. attempts to save boxing by joining a frat

We all know boxing is having trouble these days. MMA is definitely kicking its ass. So the question of late has been, how does boxing save itself?

By joining frats. Uh, what?

Roy Jones Jr. - who I've very quickly forgotten about - has an upcoming fight against Felix Trinidad. Even though Jones and Trinidad are both a bit on the washed up side, Jones is intent on this being a megafight that gets people interested in boxing again. And his solution for how to accomplish this is bizarre at best.

According to East Side Boxing, Jones joined the nation's largest frat to increase his fan base for the fight.

To further his celebrity and broaden his appeal, in August, Jones became an honorary member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. TKE is the largest social fraternity in the world with a presence on almost 300 college campuses in North America, and an initiated membership of over 220,000.

This is a frat whose members include the likes of former President Ronald Reagan, Hilton Hotel founder Conrad Hilton, Terry Bradshaw, Phil Simms, Digger Phelps and oddly Eric Bloom - the lead singer of Blue Oyster Cult.

Here's why it'll work, again according to East Side Boxing.

This is an interesting marketing strategy for the self-promoted Jones—give the guys in college a reason to watch boxing. The “hey, that’s our fraternity brother” crowd could provide a buzz among a demographic that currently seems more interested in video games and drinking games—18 to 23 year old college students. Maybe more boxers should follow Jones’s lead. Affiliating with a fraternity that exists on hundreds of college campuses provides an established fan-base of men who likely already watch sports. This could lead to wide word of mouth advertising in university circles, and could generate more buzz and attention to the boxer and to the boxing in general in the United States, which could use the help.

I went to a college that didn't allow frats, so I don't exactly know how much the "hey, that's our fraternity brother" grab-assing works, but something tells me this won't do much.

It's not that people - specifically 18 to 23 year-old male college students - don't know that boxing exists and that it needs to be passed along by word of mouth. The problem is boxing stinks in comparison to MMA. And doesn't have nearly enough ring girl wet t-shirt contests.

Besides, just because Roy is now a part of TKE, I don't exactly think that's going to make David Jones (former editor of the NYT) and Marv Levy (worst Super Bowl coach ever) tune into the fight.

However if Jones and Trinidad engage in a best of five, 10-cup Beirut tournament, I'll definitely throw down $50 for that.

-WCK

Floyd Mayweather's album is going to suck

Some of you may be aware that Floyd Mayweather is going to go all Troy Hudson on us and drop an album in the near future. If Floyd's upcoming album is anything like how he parties, then I think we can all be sure it will suck something fierce.

Mayweather goes by the less than original moniker of "Money Mayweather" and sings about making it rain, a term which seems to have almost run its course by now. The song he's singing in the video is called "Yep" which gets a -2 on the 1 to 10 scale for hardcore song titles. I don't think he ever rhymes anything either, he just ends every line with "yep." Even better, the video appears to be a behind the scenes look at the making of Mayweather's video for the song. It's unreal. I almost feel bad for Mayweather. It's like he doesn't get that it's all one big joke.

We're not laughing with you Floyd, we're laughing at you.

-WCK

Like a chicken with its head cut off...

The boys at Deuce found this about 2 months ago, but I had to bring it back. This is a fight between Vince Pettway and Simon Brown that occured back in 1995. It's one of the more unique knockouts I've ever seen, considering what Brown continues doing after he gets knocked out.

To make it even better, Mike Tyson was commenting on this fight. Of course he was.

-WCK