Ultimate Fighting Championship Bets On Handbag Thief’s Return

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has developed over the last couple of decades but still has the reputation of being the home of the most furiously frantic bouts and most dangerous competitive fighters in the world, a reputation that will only be enhanced by the return of recently released Reza “Mad Dog” Madadi after his stint in a Swedish jail for a crime he still claims he didn't commit.

Reza “Mad Dog” Madadi Is Back
● Jailed UFC fighter released
● Handbag thief gets new contract
● Iranian-Swede thinks life funny

I will probably never understand UFC. Party this will be because of my hippy upbringing and it's almost pathological aversion to confrontation of any sort (hippies prefer guilt and passive aggression to actually fighting) but mostly because the Ultimate Fighting Championship doesn't involve combat to the death, which, if we're honest about it, is the true “ultimate” where fighting is concerned. If your going to talk the talk you may as well walk the walk.

Oh sure I know that Celebrity Deathmatch has that corner of the market covered in an acceptable manner, but much as watching Madonna and Michael Jackson duke it out in the ring is amusing enough the violence is that of the same ilk as Tom & Jerry, comically exaggerated to remove all sting from it. This has always struck me as a little dishonorable, that it robs violence of its due, that there was no cost and thus no value to it, and calling yourself the Ultimate Fighting Championship is tempting the same comparison.

This hasn't stopped the growth in popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship since its inception back in the early nineties, the combination of mixed martial arts and a cage providing just the right atmosphere, a combination of entrapped energy and contained conflict, to appeal to young men everywhere, and those that like to bet on sports in Sweden back their favorite fighters at ComeOn! Sportsbook etc as the competitors take to the Octagon and everyone ignores how homoerotic it all is.

U.F.C. Just A Little G.A.Y.

You don't need to be a homosexual bondage fan to see the sexual element in caging two men together wearing very little and having them sweat and grunt around each other till one of them collapses unable or unwilling to continue putting up a fight. In prison they call it a bitch-making, in the Ultimate Fighting Championship it's just a matinee. Naturally those taking part, and a good proportion of the sport's fans, would strongly deny this aspect exists at all, but some of the fighters don't help their cause.

Take Reza “Mad Dog” Madadi who, to look at him, suits his nickname perfectly. The Iranian born Swede a manifestly dangerous man with muscles on his muscles and the sort of demeanor that exudes dangerously overt violence is never more than the tip of a hat away, but his time in the Ultimate Fighting Championship was cut short when he was jailed for 14 months for aggravated burglary, a charge he denies, even having been released at the end of his sentence.

Of course perhaps the denial is because the burglary was not of rich people's safety deposit boxes, nor of a jewelers or diamond merchant's business, no, it would seem that “Mad Dog” and his fellow robbers decided their target of choice would be a hand bag shop. Now I'm not about to start gambling news of this crime will begin casting aspersions on all Ultimate Fighting Championship participants, but robbing a hand bag store with menaces is just about as gay a crime as one can imagine without involving stabbing Richard Simmons.

Ultimate Fighting Championship Lightweight Released

The Ultimate Fighting Championship, perhaps worried about its public image being tarnished by association with Reza “Oooooh handbags!” Madadi, severed his contract when he got sent down, deciding to “terminate its relationship with Madadi based on its Fighter Code of Conduct” which apparently doesn't include provision for the theft of high-end accessories. However since his release he's managed to regain that job, and now will continue on his 13-3 record at the age of 37.

“Life is very funny,” Madadi said of his arrest, “It can change in one second, in one minute. I mean, we drove in a limousine one day, me and Alexander Gustafsson [another Ultimate Fighting Championship contender], went to some club to hit a little bit of pads, get paid for that. All of the sponsors.....I was a famous guy here in Sweden. And the day after, I was in some jail. They drove me in a police car and my life changed.” He added of his release that he was “in heaven right now.” Which isn't uncommon amongst the recently freed.

Those that take advantage of Swedish gambling laws to wager on the Ultimate Fighting Championship may be pleased to know that Reza will be facing off against Norman Parke on Saturday in Dublin and that a full range of odds for all the bouts scheduled for the tail end of this year are available at numerous sites like ComeOn! Sportsbook online. Whether you decide to back the man with the handbag is entirely up to you.