I keep imagining some poor kid, some impressionable youth in the urban wilds of North America who likes fighting enough to follow the UFC obsessively, but who has an attention span too twisted by the modern Twitterverse to actually sit through all two hours of the classic film “Rocky.” I imagine this kid listening to UFC President Dana White and UFC color commentator Joe Rogan as they hailed Patrick Cummins as a real “Rocky story,” and I imagine him trying to piece together the plot of the movie based on what he saw in Saturday’s UFC 170 pay-per-view co-headliner in Las Vegas. I imagine him doing this, and I imagine him coming away convinced that the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1976 went to a film about an overmatched barista who got wrecked in the first round by an opponent who was much, much better than him (check out the Cormier vs. Cummins video highlights ). I imagine him being confused as to why people seem to like this movie so much.
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At UFC 170, a fairy tale gets wrecked by reality – MMA Junkie