If You Aren't Excited for Mayorga vs. Thomas at Shine Fights 3... (Video)

How can a fan of fisticuffs or any other pugilistic endeavor not be salivating with anticipation for Ricardo Mayorga vs. Din Thomas at Shine Fights 3?  Even with my vivacious imagination, I'm unable to fabricate an acceptable dismissal.

Ooooh!  You have plans with close friends for dinner and drinks?  Get a life.  I'll be barricaded inside an impenetrable fortress of chips, salsa, and big screen pixelation while refusing to answer a phone call letting me know my house is on fire.  There's a fight a brewin'--and I wouldn't miss it if I were blind.

We have one of boxing's baddest men and biggest mouths dipping his toes into shark infested waters for the first time; jettisoning the big red pillows and white-roped ring to requisition a pair of black five-ouncers in a steel cage, chomping at the bit when his mouth is not otherwise occupied by a smoldering cigarette to sink his claws into one of the MMA's most experienced veterans with a toolbox of skills more vast and replete than Tammy Faye Baker's suitcase of Avon products.

If you're still not sold, I'm bitterly offended and have no tolerance for your kind.  Shine Fight Promotions is far more patient and lenient.  They have released a video of the press conference for Shine Fights 3: "Worlds Collide: Mayorga vs. Thomas" that will surely capture your interest. 

Where else can you find a press conference that better suits the description for "effective striking" than all five rounds of Anderson Silva vs. Demian Maia?  Where else can you witness a beautifully awkward volley of trash-talking between Din Thomas and Mayorga's overly burdened female interpreter, who struggles to keep up with Mayorga's verbal pace while finding a politically correct euphemism for "your mother gave birth to you out of her ass" while Mayorga angrily blows smoke rings in Din's face?

All of this glory and much more are able to be enjoyed in the video just after the break.  Mayorga also proves he's been cross-training heavily in traditional martial arts by unfurling a reverse judo-chop that is frighteningly akin to the five-point-palm-exploding-heart technique; the staple of any basic striking training.  May 15th is the date when either boxing or MMA learns a hard lesson about their present day progression in combat sports.