Summer of Fights: Vernon “The Viper” Forrest VS Carlos Baldomir
The next fight on the docket is Vernon “The Viper” Forrest VS Carlos Baldomir. This should be a classic matchup of the Boxer (Forrest) versus the Fighter (Baldomir). This fight is hard to figure out where the smart money is for a few different factors.
ATL’s Vernon Forrest is a slick deadly boxer when he was at his peak. And at his peak he was a pure killer that was thrilling to watch. He was good enough to destroy Sugar Shane Mosley not once but twice. He has had serious shoulder injuries and many wonder if he is the same fighter after being stomped on by Ricardo Mayorga twice (I made a killing on the first Mayorga VS Forrest fight…Mayorga was a 10-1 underdog. That was the night Ricardo Mayorga sparked up a smoke in the ring after the fight. I sparked up a smoke also, suited down, 2 button Ozwald Boateng, peaked lapels, Cookie Monster Blue interior, grey Brioni Pocket Square, Prada slip-ons, no socks).
Carlos Baldomir has seemed to get better as his career has gone on. He beat Zab Judah, and dismatled Arturo Gatti. Sure he lost to Pretty Boy Floyd, but then again who hasn’t? He will definitely be hungry when they step in the ring.
This fight is going to come down to how much Vernon Forrest has left. We pretty much know what Baldomir is bringing, Forrest is the question mark. His shoulder is a big question mark also. If he can’t fend off Baldomir, we might see Baldomir “Mayorga” him (although Baldomir isn’t capable fo the kind of mayhem that Mayorga can bring, he is more technically sound however). If his shoulder is 100% (which I kind of doubt) he could ginzu Baldomir. Keep in mind though, Forrest was given a Gift decision against Ike “Bazooka” Quartey.
Either way, I won’t be at this fight. I have a Big Summer Heist planned that night. But it should be well worth watching. The Rest is Up to You…
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA Your favorite International Playboy on the Rise’s favorite International Playboy on the Rise
AKA I can’t leave the Streets alone, The Game needs Me
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Ricardo Mayorga Vs Vernon Forrest I…Mayorga walks thru him
Ricardo Mayorga VS Vernon Forrest II, Mayorga shows Machismo
Dope Floyd Mayweather fight Video, Trick Daddy…Miami Style (watch for the right hook, right uppercut combo on Demarcus “Chop Chop” Corley)
Floyd Mayweather, Many Men (G Manifesto Certified 50 Cent track)
Another Dope Marvelous Marvin Hagler with Gangstarr. “I have my mind focused on one thing and that is to destroy him”- Marvelous Marvin Hagler. This video has an different angle of the Brick Tommy Hearns landed in the first round. Bone Chillin.
This might be overkill, but this video of Marvelous Marvin Hagler is Sicker than Jeffrey Dahmer.
Fat Joe is in Town, real hip hop
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Voodoo Child
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A team of Heist Men have heisted more than $7 million in Jewelry, antiques, antiquities, rare books and CASH from some of Los Angeles’s wealthiest hoods. They have been targeting homes of celebrities, sports stars, corporate magnates and moguls.
These guys are obviously pros from the old school as they haven’t left hardly any clues behind, although on one job in Encino they were caught on video (you always have to disarm the video cameras). Keep in mind, $7 million sounds like a lot but they still have to pay out tipsters, fences, and kick money upstairs as well. Let’s hope they give back to the poor as well, Robin Hood style. (I have always thought of myself as a modern day Robin Hood, except I don’t wear those goofy tights and pointy shoes…I strictly rock bespoke Italian suits and hand made English custom shoes)
I can’t think of too many people who will shed a tear for the rich and famous that have been heisted for some of their trinkets or their insurance companies who will ultimately be stuck. Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to feature your house on MTV cribs…Skippy….The Rest is Up to You…
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA Your favorite International Playboy on the Rise’s favorite International Playboy on the Rise
AKA I can’t leave the Streets alone, The Game needs Me
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Papoose, Love is a BattlefieldNas featuring Amerie, Rule
I can’t front. There was a time when I liked Bottle Service in Nightclubs. I still remember the first time I experienced Bottle Service. It was about 12 years ago in a very high-end nightclub in Tijuana, Mexico when I was associating with some of the Arellano-Felix crew based out of TJ. The advantages were obvious: beautiful girls came up to your table (in this case upper class fly Mexican girls, which I do have a thing for), you had a place to relax, re-group, and everyone thought you were balling out of control. (For the record, I never did anything illegal with the Arellano-Felix cartel, but I do remember having a Magical Night that night…chicas were sweating me like condensation in a steam room, which was really no different than a night for me without Bottle Service.)
Fast forward to 2007, and Bottle Service has become the standard (and I don’t mean that overrated Andre Balazs hotel in Los Angeles either) for most high-end clubs all across the bubble. It has been popular in Miami and NYC for at least ten years, but my sources tell me it is currently popular in many C-grade cities and they even offer it in many D-grade cities as well. The advantages are still there, primarily, Bottle Service allows a group of Investment Bankers, Hedge fund guys, commercial real estate jerkoffs, or any type of weesh 9 to 5 guys the ability to enter a club with out too much hassle. But there are many problems that Bottle Service brings to nightclubs in general and nightlife in particular. There are also a few more reasons why I am not a big fan of Bottle Service.
Camp Lo, Dj Honda, Disco Tec
The Crowd Bottle Service Brings
In the 2000’s we have seen a corporatization of nightclubs. Now when you go to a nighclub everyone is some kind of corporate jerkoff. Interesting people are no longer found in Nightclubs. The artists, writers, intellectuals, underground DJ’s etc have been effectively priced out of the nightclub with bottle service. The only people that can afford it are the Investment bankers, real estate types, and Celebs (and of course, underworld figures). That is why when you walk into a club you see so many striped shirts that you think you are seeing some kind of 3-D optical illusion. The funny thing is that these are the type of guys who would have never gotten into a club in the old days (nights) when you were picked out because of how you looked, dressed, if you had connections, or by reputation. So today, clubs are full of people that normally would have been standing in line in nights gone by.
Juelz Santana and Lil Wayne, Blow
Too common place
The whole purpose of Bottle Service is that it separates you from the masses. But today, there are clubs with 40 tables of bottle service. All it has done is raised the bar on what is the norm. Every fool with a platinum card can buy exclusivity. What is so exclusive about that?
Wale, I ain’t sprung…lyrics
Stuck it the same spot
I really don’t like Bottle service because I like to be agile when I go out. If a nightclub sucks for whatever reason, I don’t want to be tied down to some table with a three bottle minimum. I like to stick and move (so to speak).
Camp Lo, Lucini
Don’t realize how expensive it is
For me, where CASH is no object, this is a non-issue. But for everyday regular guy out there this can be a major problem. When you get a table at a nightclub, you think “OK, two bottle minimum, bottles start at $200, there are four of us…that’s only $100 each!” Wrong equation. Once you get there you realize that the Smirnov is $200 but the Goose is $350-400 per bottle. You have to get the Goose, or it defeats the whole purpose of getting the table in the first place. Then you have to pay for the overpriced mixers. Then the table of the guys with the professional Athlete next to you has just ordered two bottles of Cristal, and the Girls that were hanging out with you are slowly shimming their way over to their table. So you need to counter attack and get two bottles of Crist to keep pace. Keep in mind at the end of the night you have to tip the Vip Waitress in the corset that brought you everything. And you can’t be cheap now, because all night you have been hitting on her with your “big balling” paper thin game and she gave you her number (you don’t realize yet, skippy, but it was a fake). Pretty soon your $400 night is $2700. Good for the club, bad for the chumpy patron.
This is when things get interesting. Let’s say you rolled in with 5 guys and got a table. Without fail, at least two guys are going to come up real short. Or they can’t be found when its time to settle up the bill.
These weak crews also always have one guy that just brings over other guys to the table. These other guys also probably won’t have a problem ordering 15 Patron shots on your tab as well as doing heavy pours off your Goose bottle. Like clockwork, once some Platinum Diggers, Nightlife Princesses, or Table Hawks finally do make it to your table, the 2nd Goose bottle will run out. That’s when some guy, (usually one who has no cash when the bill comes or says “where is the ATM in the club?” and usually reports back “the ATM is broken, I will get you next week, you know I am good for it”) will order up two more Goose bottles without hesitation. This guy also usually has a tendency to disappear when the bill comes.
Don’t be the card holder
If you do make the mistake of getting Bottle Service, you never want to be the card holder in a Bottle Service situation. This puts the burden of responsibility on you. You Will get stuck at the end of the night. Remember you and your “Fly Crew” can’t pull out 5 credit cards and split the bill up 5 ways…remember the whole goal was to look like you were flush with CASH.
Friendships Broken
More friendships have been broken over Bottle Service. Everyone involved thinks they were “done wrong” by someone in the crew. Angry, acusatory emails usually follow then following Monday: “You and your boy drank off our bottles all night and didn’t even offer any cash”, “Remember you said you would split the bill with us?” “Why do you go out if you don’t have any money?” etc.
Final thoughts
Never get bottle service. But if you do, don’t be the card holder. Don’t get it with a weak crew. Avoid other peoples tables as well, even if you don’t have a single drink off their bottles, they will think you did and try to hit you up for $500 the next week. The only time I will do it is if I am taking some people I care about and just pay CASH for the whole thing.
I can’t help but laugh every time I see a table of Real Estate or Investment guys dressed in striped shirts, gay t-shirts with writing on them, designer jeans, at the end of the night, their bottles nearing empty, no girls, trying in vain to salvage their night with some weird dance moves. But there is no saving them. It’s like when you stab someone in the jugular with a big serrated knife and you twist. The ambulance might be on its way, but it’s too late…you are losing too much blood…you fade out…The Rest is Up to You…
Tonight I am going to a nightclub with Bottle Service (a necessary thing for Heist men looking for tips). I am meeting two of my best childhood friends in town who are young up and coming guns with the Mossad. I am paying…CASH.
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Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA Your favorite International Playboy on the Rise’s favorite International Playboy on the Rise
AKA I can’t leave the Streets alone, The Game needs Me
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Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Seventh Letter
AKA I can’t leave the Streets alone, The Game needs Me
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