Hindsight: UFC Pittsburgh and Bellator 149 in retrospect

Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.*Between Bellator 149 and UFC Cowboy vs. Cowboy, the MMA world ran amok with motives. Kimbo Slice and Dada 5000 wanted street cred, or perhaps more precisely, they fought for vanity and the ability to let everyone know they walked the walk. Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie, it seems, fought for passion, that feeling that they had let slip away something that was at one point core to their identity and now had an opportunity to regain it. Donald Cerrone fights to avoid boredom, as best as I can tell. Give the man two months with nothing to do and he'll roll his truck just for a thrill. Fighting keeps him busy. And Alex Oliveira fought for opportunity, for money (yes, they all fought for money), and perhaps the luxury to someday fight as a cure for boredom or vanity or passion.

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