Head on over to Jarry Park

For all of our longtime No Masians, the name "Franchise" conjures a certain yearning in the heart, but for those of you out there of a more recent No Mas vintage, let me explain. Franchise batted cleanup for a while here in the No Mas batting order with his now collector's item column, Sharpshootin' with The Franchise (check out his classic Wrestlemania countdown for a sample of his work). He's a combat arts specialist, MMA, WWE, etc., and for the time that he was with us we were lucky to have one of the true experts of the genre airing it out every week on our site.

So I suppose you can see where this is headed. Yes, yes, he's coming back. But there's more. Chise has his own site now, jarrypark.com, as perfect a name for a Franchise-sponsored endeavor as ever there could be (holms is from Montreal - I'll leave it at that). Check it out and you'll see that it's everything "Sharpshootin'" was and more, along with the fact that he is focusing on podcasts in which he will interview various figures throughout the fight sports universe on a weekly basis. Franchise is plugged in too - on tap for this week are such luminaries as Christian Cage, Kurt Angle and IFL star Brent Beauparlant (I'm guessing M. Beauparlant is also from Montreal).

And, oh yeah, me. Chise and I have had a long, at times contentious negotiation over terms these past few months, and what we've arrived at is an agreement that I will make weekly appearances over at Le Parc Jarry in exchange for a partial return of Sharpshootin'. No timetable yet as to when his comeback is scheduled, but you can check out my rather longwinded debut interview on his site right now. It's a general overview of the big fights of the fall and winter, looking back at Pavlik/Taylor, looking forward to Shane/Cotto and Mayweather/Hatton, giving my predicitions, which as you know are almost always prescient.

I'll leave you with this - there's also been talk of a Franchise/Large smackdown. One bout in the octagon, one in the squared circle, and if it's tied at the end of two (which it won't be, trust me folks), we head to the chessboard. I'm just putting that out there now to tease you, because the promoters are still wrangling about the numbers. We're talking straight-up PPV money here people.