Tag Archive: rebecca

Rebecca’s Second Amateur MMA Fight

January 20, 2008 at 4:55 pm · Filed under Entertainment, Personal

So, my friend Beck is at it again. Next week, on Jan 25th, Rebecca will be fighting her second Mixed Martial Arts amateur fight in Atlanta, GA.

Rebecca’s MMA Debut Fight

December 3, 2007 at 1:08 pm · Filed under Entertainment, Personal

So my friend Rebecca is one of those people who beats up people for fun (I use that term loosely, of course). She’s been trained in Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, Wrestling and an assortment of other beat-your-opponent-to-pulp martial arts.

She’s probably the only Computational Linguist I know who threatens to beat anybody up who doesn’t agree with her theories on the evolution of language (namely that people being clubbed on their heads developed speech as an evolutionary mechanism to scream and distract the guy with the club).

Anyway, this past weekend, she had her very first Mixed Martial Arts fight in Dalton, Georgia. Not surprisingly, she won, wiping the mat clean against her opponent.

So here are all three rounds of that fight on video. I am so very proud of her! (She made me say that, though).


Round 1


Round 2


Round 3

Sometimes…

May 24, 2007 at 2:27 pm · Filed under Humour

…silence can say a lot more than words would. Take, for instance, the pictures below:

Ballerina Beck in a Saree

Friends, don’t let friends punch you

August 16, 2006 at 4:43 pm · Filed under Humour

“It’s less satisfying to punch you when you run away.”

The remarkably insightful statement above was uttered by none other than my partner-in-crime Rebecca, who has enough medals in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Muay Thai and other assorted beat-the-crap-out-of-each-other arts that they scare away half the people I know from talking to her.

And she wonders why I run away. When she’s aiming a punch at me.

Don’t you love friends? Especially when they delight in beating the crap out of you and are upset when you don’t let them?