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I don’t care what the pundits think, last night’s Golden Globes Award show was awesome.

In 30 minutes I was able to see everything I cared about without the annoying falderal.

No announcer saying “This is the 4th time Gina Gershon has been nominated. Her last nomination was in 2001 when she played a duck in ‘Duck, Duck, Die!’…”
There was no 4 shot of the people up for the awards showing their fake tension.
No one was talking about “who they are wearing”, no stilted tries at humor between presenters prior to slowly announcing the nominees.
No pretending to have a hard time with the envelope.
I didn’t have to hear who the accountant was and then have them all come out on stage and look like deer about to be run over by a Hummer.
There were no speeches giving political points of view from vapid rich people who have little connection to the real world.
No dance number.
No shots of Jack Nicholson with his sunglasses on inside to hide the fact he just smoked a monsterous joint.
I did not have to listen to Whoopi or Ellen or whoever thought they’d be funny get up there for 15 minutes prior to doing any awarding.
No one had to introduce people who then introduced awards.
I didn’t have to watch people rush through their speeches to thank their lawyer and dermatologist at the end because the music was coming up to get them offstage.

All in all, I wish all award shows would follow this format.

I took about a year and a half’s worth of muay thai classes at Knockout Fitness in San Diego. For me it was mostly about fitness and working out stress on the heavy bag. There were some typical gym goers there (not too fit, not too dedicated), but there were also some serious boxers and kickboxers training for competition. One boxer had the most amazing hand speed I’ve ever seen in person, and although he was maybe a welterweight, the sound he made hitting the bags was like a shotgun going off.

Several women at the club also had chops. Even though I had maybe 90 pounds on them, I am certain that several of them could have sent me home in a body bag if we ever sparred seriously.

Gina Carano, I am certain, could knock my head off. I will readily admit I’ve had a crush on Gina Carano since stumbling upon (and subsequently watching the last 4 episodes of) Fight Girls on the Oxygen channel. What can I say? She’s beautiful, athletic, and seems to have some serious fighting skills. You gotta respect that. And as long as my wife is cool with my innocent media-personality infatuation, then we’re good to go. Hey, she used to think MacGyver was cute, and he’s got a mullet.

Whoever decided to bring Ms. Carano into the American Gladiator fold made a brilliant marketing decision. With mixed martial arts (UFC-style fighting) growing enormously in popularity and ratings, the addition of MMA heartthrob Carano will undoubtedly draw at least a few more thousand eyes to the show, if only out of curiosity. American Gladiators is sneaking back onto the air in large part to the screen writer’s strike, and smart decisions like this just might keep it alive for longer than 3 episodes.

Follow this link to MMAjunkie.com to see Ms. Carano whomp her opponent into a Steve Young-style concussion. Her Gladiator name is, appropriately, “Crush”: “American Gladiators,” Gina Carano Make Strong Television Debut