91-Year-Old MMA Fan Spoils "Octagonarian" Joke

Alright, so Floedna Feidler of Checotah, OK, probably isn't downloading the latest DEEP card right now, or waiting on the edge of her (rocking) chair for Fedor's next fight, but the spry old dame took in an MMA event near Oklahoma City last year and she's been spreading the gospel ever since. From today's Oklahoman:

"They had the thing regulated pretty well," she said. "There were only a certain number of people there and they actually had rules. Before anything got too out of hand in the fight, they stopped it. It was really good."

She kept all the programs from that night. They are in a big three-ring binder on a bookshelf, along with several letters she wrote to friends about her experience.

She had to tell them about it.

"I knew they would not have known what I was talking about, so I wrote them a letter explaining how everything worked and how much fun it was," she said.

The letter was three pages long. She wrote about the rules and what it was like and how much better it was than she even could have imagined. She said it was something anybody could like.

And that's the new goal for MMA. The sport has made a fan out of a 91-year old woman who lives down a rocky road on a wooded hill above Lake Eufaula in rural Checotah.

The name of the promotion isn't mentioned, but a little legwork reveals that Ms. Feidler was most likely watching a Masters of the Cage card.

I know this is weekend fluff journalism at its finest, but the main thrust of the article (that MMA needs casual fans just as much as hardcores) is spot-on nonetheless.