5 4 Friday: Uppercut, Uppercut, Body Blow, Put Him Away!

On this Five for Friday, I surfed on over to Wikipedia and hit the "Random Article" button to see what I should focus on this Friday. The article that popped up was for a UFC video game.


Now, I'm not a big video game player. I have a few that I play on a regular basis (Ghostbusters, Spider-Man, Grand Theft Auto), and my wife is in love with the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, but I've never been a huge gamer, thus I've never checked out UFC 2009 Undisputed (in fact, I think the last fighting game I sought out was Def Jam: Fight for NY, and that was simply so I could arrange a fight between Snoop Dogg and Henry Rollins).

Likewise, I've never been big into professional fighting - or amateur fighting for that matter. I mean, I enjoyed Fight Club and Cinderella Man and Rocky and Raging Bull as much as the next guy, and one of my favorite movies of the last year was The Hammer, Adam Carolla's amateur-boxing romantic comedy (seriously, don't knock it til you've seen it), but I'm not a real sports-movie guy, nor am I a fighting movie guy. But who am I, a little man, to question the article that Wikipedia has bestowed upon me? So here's your Five for Friday; five songs about boxing and fighting and all that that entails.

1. "Green Gloves" by the National from the album Boxer
2. "The Boxer" by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes from the album Have Another Ball!
3. "Prizefighter" by the Eels from the album Hombre Lobo
4. "Somebody Beat Me" by Bo Diddley from the album 500% More Man
5. "Fight Test" by the Flaming Lips from the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots