Rolled out to Vegas, on Tuesday morning to go check out Magic. My pops, little sister and I hopped into our Excursion and drove the 250 miles plus, it took a little more than three hours to get there as I was pushing 80 to 90 miles per hour against that Triton V-10 engine in our truck! Drive was cool, watched Orange County with Jack Black and Austin Powers movies there and back all the while keeping facebook updated as to where we were and what we were doing…mobile technology…amazing! We stayed one night at the Excalibur Hotel. It’s real convenient to stay there, you park valet, and take the tram over to Mandalay Bay
We pulled up to the Hotel at like 1:00 pm or so, valet parked and headed straight over to Mandalay Bay…we had one goal in mind and that was to hit the TapouT booth where we knew our boys TapouTSkrape and TapouTPunkAss would be. As we walked into “Slate” we walked by the new TapouT NASCAR Race Vehicle…it was sick! In my opinion the race car is a smart move on the part of Skrape…he is the one that put that whole deal together, and has said that TapouT is about EXPANSION…expanding into NASCAR in order to draw a large majority of those fans into MMA…there probably are a grip of them already. Skrape told us that he is a big fan of Moto-Cross, Off-Road and of course NASCAR, he used to race when he was younger...my boy is the man!
As we made our way over to the TapouT booth We ran into the crew from the MTV show “The Buried Life”…my little sister went absolutely nuts when she spotted those guys! Pops really didn’t know what was going on, and was just there taking it all in, looking forward to shaking hands with PunkAss and Skrape!
When we finally made it out to the TapouT booth…low and behold, both PunkAss and Skrape were right there working their “magic”. These guys are incredible to talk to. I mean they are so successful, they have over come great obstacles, from people questioning them and their dream in the beginning to being homeless, sleeping in cars at times! Anyone would be in their right mind to think, these guys are too good for a lot of people…but to talk to both of these cats, they are the humblest, most approachable guys you will ever meet. They are full of inspiration, and will do anything to make you feel good about meeting them…and it is a real genuine thing with them too. I mean these guys get off on doing whatever they can to make you feel good about you!
While I was there talking to Skrape, pops asked him “dude I sometimes feel sorry for you, cuz every time I run into you, you’re always out here doing the PR thing, big smile, happy, totally approachable, don’t you ever get tired of this?” Skrape responded… "I’m just being me, this is how Charles, PunkAss and I have always been...we don't know anything else but this!"…no wonder these guys are so successful. Always so positive, always looking for the good in everything…these guys give the true meaning to “don’t judge a book by it’s cover!”
Much love and respect from the A2R family to PunkAss and Skrape!
Mannie Jr.
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