Maybe you were watching the inevitable demise of the Chicago Cubs over the weekend or the elimination of the Milwaukee Brewers from contention. Or maybe you're not a sports fan and instead limited your television watching to important matters of the upcoming election on Sunday morning news shows such as Face the Nation or any array of cable news network offerings.

(Ideally, you would have been taking in the last nice day for at least a week and possibly longer with the prediction of cold, wet weather on the way, but that doesn't really fit into the theme of this column, so I'll move along now.)

But for the sound clip, YouTube generation, this weekend's event was a glorious subminute upset for the ages in the Gen Y sport select ultimate mixed-martial arts fighting and the shocking defeat of icon Kimbo Slice.

In that spirit, I offer up the look at five key members of the all-time all-hype team in their respective fields of experise.

Kimbo Slice

If appearance is everything, then Kimbo Slice is da man. A beast of immense proportions with an owly growl that evokes memories of Clubber Lang (a.k.a. Mr. T) from "Rocky III," the Slice has been the growing face of the no-holds-bar world of Mixed Martial Arts fighting for the uninitiated.

A street brawler whose legend grew to mythic porportions on the back of YouTube videos and the marketing arm of CBS television, Slice has been getting plenty of face time over the past year as the baddest of the bad.

The only problem is, somebody forgot to tell this pink-haired punk Seth Petruzelli about Kimbo's invincibility. The journeyman fighter who had been tossed from Ultimate Fighting Championship league and had spent the last year working more as a businessman than a fighter with any cred was a last-minute fill in for the injured has-been that was supposed to fight Slice in the first place.

Regardless, Petruzelli put the smackdown on Slice and the MMA to which they fight for, leaving the organization without a star to promote and a YouTube legend what's next.

Tommy Morrison

Speaking of villians from Sly Stallone's "Rocky" factory, Tommy Morrison is perhaps the most successful member of the all-hype team in a sport that is, by the mainstream, still considered a step or two above the world of ultimate fighting.

Morrison actually held a heavyweight title belt (and no, not in Rocky V, but in real life) for gaining a decision over the aging George Foreman in 1993. Morrison held on to the WBO title belt briefly, but, like our good friend Mr. Slice, was defeated by a virtual unknown in Michael Bentt. The problem with the fight wasn't just the loss. It was that the no-name Bentt took Morrison to the woodshed for a whipping, knocking him down thrice in the first round before the merciful ref stepped in and stopped the fight.

Morrison might have made a comeback hadn't been for the shocking positive AIDS test he had just before a planned fight in 1996.

The test sent Morrison reeling, moving into retirement and then being convicted on drugs and weapons charges that landed him in the big house.

Remarkably, Morrison did make a comeback of sorts, proving ot officials with a series of blood tests that the HIV test results from 1996 had been incorrect. But after a fight in 2007, the claims that he had HIV returned and he was once again stripped of his boxing license.

Morrison hasn't given up on his dream of capturing those days of early glory, however, as he fought an unsanctioned boxing match in Mexico in February of this year.

Brock Lesnar

Brock Lesnar, too, has been highly successful, first as a collegiate wrestler and second as a star in the somewhat dubious world of professional wrestling.

He was a reigning superstar of the latter when, in 2004, he relinquished all the fame and money that the WWE professional wrestling organization had given him and worked to fulfill his dream of being a professional football player.

With a mammoth build (about 295 pounds of chiseled muscle) and speedy feet, Lesnar was still considered a long shot to make the roster of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings. Still, many were cheering him on.

First off, I should say, that would be many people around these parts. Lesnar, a South Dakota native, had been a star wrestler for Webster and later the University of Minnesota.

No dobut the underdog in achieving a roster spot for the Vikings, he was a hard worker and played the underdog well despite his theatric bad boy image he had cultivated in the world of professional wrestling. In the end, though, injuries and the fact that he had not played football since his senior year in high school sent him on his way.

These days, Lesnar is trying his hand at a third spot. That's right - mixed martial arts and ultimate fighting.

H. Ross Perot

When Ross Perot stormed onto the American political scene in 1992, it seemed as if anything were possible. The highly successful businessman who had a history of dabbling in government (his biggest claim to fame was his work to get the hostages freed during the Iran hostage crisis some 12 years before) caught the public off guard.

Disillusioned by a seemingly aloof Washington, the populist Perot seemed the perfect antidote. Big money wouldn't be able to control his actions. He wouldn't be in it for the goal of becoming a lifetime politician.

He was the truest Washington outsider we had seen in nearly a century.

Amazingly, he was included in the presidential debates along with incumbent George H.W. Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton. It was during the debates, though, that some of his luster began to fade a bit. He and President Bush bickered. Clinton, who obviously benefited from their bickering, steered clear from some of the potential bombs that Perot and Bush lobbed back and fort, and went on to win.

And although Perot went on to collect nearly 19 percent of the popular vote, he collected nary a vote from the electoral college and is remembered best perhaps through the impressions of former Saturday Night Live cast member Dana Carvey.

Of late, however, his name has been brought up by politicos once again as a certain candidate has been bringing up those Washington-outsider themes.

Lloyd Daniels

A very small percentage of people will ever know how great Lloyd Daniels truly was, including myself.

A playground legend on the hardcourts of New York City, he was considered the greatest basketball prodigy to come out of the Big Apple since Lew Alcindor (aka, Kareem Abdul Jabbar).

But by the time he made it to the NBA in the early 1990s, what most people saw was an average mid-sized forward/guard who struggled to score or play consistent defense.

Of course, it was what happened in the middle - far from the cameras - that bridged the gap between imminent legend and a has-been before being somebody. Daniels penchant for petty crime, hard drugs and a big money lifestyle on a hardscrabble budget had taken its toll on his play on the court. So had the three bullet wounds he sustained in 1989.

In the end, Daniels managed to catch on in the NBA and played a total of 200 games, which is successful by many people's standards. However, the expectations as the next great thing were left to be played out mostly on the semi-professional circuits of the CBA and overseas.