Friday, October 1, 2010

George Roop: The Man Who Stopped A Zombie Apocalypse!

After the amazing fight that was Leonard Garcia vs. Chan Sung Jung at WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber, everyone was expecting the experienced Korean fighter who has faced tough competition in Japan with a win over Michihiro Omigawa and a close decision loss that some have called a robbery to Masanori Kanehara to run through George Roop. George Roop is a fighter who was completely forgettable on TUF 8 and dropped from 155 to 145 after a 1-2 run in the UFC. He lost a decision to Eddie Wineland and drew against Leonard Garcia in the WEC making his overall record in Zuffa run organizations 1-3-1 until tonight. Needless to say, absolutely no one thought he stood a shot against Jung.

The first round was action packed with the Zombie moving forward with his hands down and throwing haymakers only to get peppered with jabs from the lengthy American fighter. The round ended in a nice exchange and score cards had to have Roop up 10-9 for damage and pace. The second round saw Jung come out the aggressor and missing everything that he threw. Roop landed a massive switch kick to the chin and the Korean Zombie was out before his head bounced off the mat.

The WEC is now in a precarious situation, they have a marketable fighter now 0-2 in the organization in their deepest division. Sean Shelby is now faced with the tough decision of either setting up a complete squash match for Jung or cutting his losses and letting him return to Japan where he will fade into obscurity in a dying MMA scene. My expectation is a final chance for Jung to pick up a win against a fighter like Cole Province. George Roop just jumped up the rankings and if they weren't teammates, I'd say a perfect fight would be against Mark Hominick.

Leason learned today? George Romero was right. The only way to kill a Zombie is with a shot to the head.

1 comment:

  1. George Roop looks exactly like this dude I went to community college with. He was like 35, grossly overestimated his own intelligence, always puffed his chest out as he walked, and was disliked by everyone I knew, including all of my professors.

    That's really irrelevant and I'm fully aware of that fact, but sometimes I think people should get a glimpse of the world as I see it.

    Whatever, I still think our Korean friend can have some success. Plus he put Pajonsuk SKV the fuck out with that huge spinning back fist. Fuck a disqualification son, shit is mad real when you put a Lumpini champ out with some shit like that. Hit him with the fucking Seoul spinning Zombie zinger, son. Word.

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