{"id":217453,"date":"2010-01-15T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-213935:1"},"modified":"2010-01-15T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:25:00","slug":"tsa-fail-cope-hits-the-road-with-brass-knuckles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217453","title":{"rendered":"TSA fail? Cope hits the road with brass knuckles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kitcopemma\" ><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__16\/ept_sports_mma_experts-237738417-1263587729.jpg?ymRWmhCDXcG9Svum\" \/><\/a>Anyone notice those longer lines at airports around the country? Returning from Washington D.C. and Ultimate Fight Night 20, my first experience at Dulles proved to be a show of inefficiency. But it&#8217;s all in the name of safety, right? <\/p>\n<p>MMA fighter Kit Cope put TSA to the test on a trip to Tulsa and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kitcopemma\" >he claims they failed<\/a>. You can&#8217;t bring on that big tube of toothpaste or the 6 oz. Old Spice, but those brass knuckles? You&#8217;re good to go. Wow!<\/p>\n<p>Cope is in Tulsa for an interesting fight card that includes plenty of UFC veterans. Houston Alexander (9-5, 2-4 UFC), who many thought ran from the challenge of Kimbo Slice during the season 10 &quot;Ultimate Fighter Finale,&quot; is already back in action. He&#8217;ll take on Joey Beltran. Jeff Monson (31-9, 3-1 UFC) is on the card, as is Jeremy Horn (89-13-1, 6-6 UFC). Rich Clementi (34-15, 5-4 UFC) fights Mike Budnik (7-3, 1-3 WEC). Former UFC light heavyweights Jason Lambert (23-11, 4-4 UFC), trying to snap a five-fight losing streak, and Tim Boetsch (9-3, 2-2 UFC) also are featured in separate bouts. I&#8217;m also rooting for 110-pounder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightergirls.com\/fighter.asp?ID=1662\" >Amber &quot;The Crazy Bitch&quot; Powell<\/a> against Tammy Schneider.<\/p>\n<p>5150 Fights are&nbsp;Saturday night at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritbankeventcenter.com\/events.asp?id=2&amp;pid=97&amp;task=display\" >The Spirit Bank Events Center<\/a> in Tulsa. Keep an eye out for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5150combat.com\/misti.html\" >ring girl Misti<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone notice those longer lines at airports around the country? Returning from Washington D.C. and Ultimate Fight Night 20, my first experience at Dulles proved to be a show of inefficiency. But it&#8217;s all in the name of safety, right? MMA fighter Kit Cope put TSA to the test on a trip to Tulsa and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}