Kelly Pavlik defeats Jermain Taylor Again in Rematch
Kelly Pavlik defeated Jermain Taylor for the second time on Saturday night, with a 12-round unanimous decision in a at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas.
Pavlik, 25, now undefeated in 33 fights, was contractually obliged to afford Taylor a re-match after flooring the former undisputed middleweight champion on September 29, in Atlantic City, when he captured the WBC and WBO middleweight titles.
The titles were not on the line in this fight as the two fighters had agreed to fight at a limit of 166lbs, a “catch-weight” above the normal middleweight limit.
Pavlik received decisive scores of 117-111, 116-112 and 115-113 on the cards.
Many think Taylor’s stock actually is rising after his second loss.
Next up for Pavlik could be the winner of Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins.
Four oil paintings worth more than $163.5 Million (£80m) by Monet, Degas, van Gogh and Cezanne were taken in the weekend robbery from the E.G. Buehrle museum.
The heisted pieces were Claude Monet’s “Poppy field at Vetheuil” (1880), Edgar Degas’ “Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter”(1871), Vincent van Gogh’s “Blooming Chestnut Branches” (1890), and Paul Cezanne’s “Boy in the Red Waistcoat” (1890).
Three G’s wearing ski masks and dark clothing ran up in the museum half-an-hour before closing on Sunday. This was largest art robbery in Switzerland’s history and one of the biggest ever in Europe.
While one of the men used a pistol to force museum personnel to the floor, the other two heistmen went into the exhibition hall and collected the four masterpieces. They were said to have spoken German with a Slavic accent (but of course they might have been disguising their voices).
The FBI estimates the market for stolen art at $6 billion(£3bn) annually (making it a very robust industry) and Interpol has about 30,000 pieces of stolen art in its database.
Three other versions of the stolen Cezanne painting — perhaps the most famous of those seized — exist in the National Gallery in Washington, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Its value alone is thought to be $90 million.
Last week, two Pablo Picasso paintings were stolen from a Swiss exhibition near Zurich.
The two oil paintings, Tete de cheval (Head of horse) and Verre et pichet (Glass and pitcher), were on loan from the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany.
Again, authorities are talking about “entirely new dimension in criminal culture” which I talked about in Criminality in The Luxury Sector.
Swiss Police called it a “spectacular art robbery.” This is one of the few times I agree with police.
The three G’s are at large and presumibly living large.
It is no secret that the US economy sucks right now. All kinds of Indices of Leading Economic indicators are falling. Residential Real estate is in a tail spin (except the extremely high-end market). We are seeing sharp drops in building permits. Consumer Confidence is low coupled with the number of initial claims for unemployment insurance rising. Orders for Durable Goods has dropped (the Durable Goods report being one of my favorite indicators). Crude Oil prices are constantly testing its all time record high. We have a credit crunch. The Chinese are killing us (and teaming up with the Euros). So is the War. The dollar is weesh. The best Stocks are trading sideways, hell, even the Casino Stocks are taking a hit.
Really, the only way for the economy to pull out of this is some kind of Internet 2.0 miracle. Or, foreign investors with deep pockets recapitalize the U.S. financial sector, which is already happening. (The G Manifesto’s Guide to The Top Ten ways to Make Money in a Down Economy coming soon…)
Whatever spin people want to put on it, and a lot of what you hear is politically motivated, the US Economy is getting “check hooked” like Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton in his fight with “Pretty Boy” Floyd.
(Side Note: Recently, I was at Bergdorf’s in NYC buying some pocket squares and some fly rich girls from Madrid were treating the place like a bargain basement sale because the dollar is so weak. Anyways, I made plans with them to have some drinks at Jean-Georges later that night…worked out well…in case you wanted to know.)
Anyways, enough of that, what we really want to know is How to Swoop Girls in a down economy. The good thing, is you have come to the right place, as I cut my teeth as a baby G in a down economy. So, what I am saying is, I got moves for days. These G maneuvers are especially good for up-and-coming G’s that might have their Sneaker Game straight but they Paper Game is lacking. Here are some:
Dive Bars
When you have a down economy, the high-end restaurants and nightclubs; that we have been putting up at a breakneck pace over the last few years, are not holding mad girls like they used to. Especially not on weekdays. I have done an unofficial case study and I have concluded that; when people have less money, people go to dive bars more. I just went to a dive bar the other night to test my theory and KO’ed it. I called it out before I went out, so I guess you could say I “Muhammad Ali’d” it. And believe it or not, I even went non-suited down.
(Side Note: In the plus column, the down economy has also lessened the number of “guy” out at night. Remember, even six months ago, when you walked into a restaurant you would see so many guys in multi-colored striped shirts you thought you were looking at an Ellsworth Kelly Painting? They are all gone now. The Nightlife World is literally Littered with the mangled Corpses of fake-players, just as I predicted it would.)
Part of the reason I went non-suited down was because I constantly have haters claiming things like, “That guy, Michael Mason, sure he can swoop girls at the high-end spots, but he can’t swoop girls unless he is in a $4500 suit…” and garbage like that.
Haters so easily forget, that when I was an up-and-coming prototype G, I was hip-hop-skate-graffiti artist fresh to def every day, all day. Versatile. Plus, I got the fat nine skills in bowling beach breaks. On point, on the points. Even better on the Mexican reefs, high on reefer. And I was a sneaker head before sneaker heads existed.
So anyways, I rolled into this dive bar, that I haven’t been to in like 8 years, and it has been taken over by hipsters more or less (dope dive bars have the tendency to be infiltrated by Hollywood hipsters nowadays. One of the reasons I haven’t been in a while. Blame that on that stupid movie “Swingers”.)
I was wearing a black and red Skeeem hooded sweatshirt, Tranquilo t-shirt (dopest clothing/ money laundering company ever), custom plaid slacks from my Italian tailor, and Muhammad Ali Adidas kicks. Kind of a Kanyeze-Ali-kickflip-beanflipper-fiendleaner-G steez with a New-school twist. If, you know what I mean.
Anyways, the competition in the Dive bar was so light it almost floated away like chronic smoke. Every girl in the spot was clocking me like the Swiss. I was dressed so fresh here, girls were looking at me like I was a young David Koresh here. And I was flipping new school Pimp Game, straight vicious, changing Missus names to “Delicious”, even granting a few wishes.
Goose and Sodas at $5? It was like drinking for free. Swooped the flyest girl in the spot, silencing critics like Money Mayweather. So wat cha sayin’?
Retail- Boutique Move
A good Day move, especially for West Coast Beach towns, is to bump around the beach like Johnny “Bump City” Bumphus in a drop top mint condition ’63 Cadillac. Roll up to a Beach sandwich shop, the kind with fly girls working there. You know the type of joint, the kind of place where every sandwich comes with Avocado or bean sprouts or some other healthy crap. Where, they got mad Acai smoothies. Order a sandwich, flash a big bankroll while paying for it and get the fly girls phone number that slapped it together for you.
Do Or Die-Po Pimp
Then slide the Lac, past the beach, cop a few more numbers from beach bunnies, say “What up” to the local heavies and then park the whip in front of a fresh girls clothing boutique (however, not an extremely high-end one where a Platinum Digger would shop). Even in a down economy, girls buy mad clothes on plastic. Post up in the Lac while eating the turkey-smoked cheddar-avocado sandwich and girls will sweat you coming in and out of the clothing boutique. Works every time.
Skate Board Moves
This is a great younger Prototype G move for the younger girl set (18-22 year olds). If you see a couple of fly girls kicking it, skate over near them and bust a sick trick. Something simple, like a kickflip or a stalefish air over a curb. Or a basic Varial. I used to bust a lot of Judo airs, Mute airs and Feeble Grinds in my day. Small Wheels and Baggy Jeans supreme. No need to get all Danny Way or my main man Sean Sheffey on it. Just bust a dope trick with style. Then introduce yourself. They will be down. Great opener. Also you can package this move with:
Sean Sheffey
Zig Zag Smoke
When I was a younger prototype G I used to twist Jays and puff wherever, whenever. I would play it like Sean Paul if you would gimme the light. The beach, the streets, the club, sitting on Dubs, didn’t matter. I am talking smoking. And my last name isn’t even Frazier. Nor is my first name Joe or Marvis.
More high-profile the better. I have done an unofficial case study and in down markets people puff more weed. So a classic move is to bust a slob air over a curb introduce yourself to the two fly girls and spark up a jay. They will introduce themselves to you. Word life.
