Testosterone Festival Showcase in Houston October 17-18

We are very proud to be taking the Texas Testosterone Festival across the stage, building on the success of our inaugural event. Immersed in Ink, the national tattoo convention, has invited The Texas Testosterone Festival to showcase during their festival at the Marriott Westchase October 17 and 18.

The Import All-Stars Auto Con is happening at Immersed in Ink but the MMA Bootcamp Intensive has been cancelled! If you pre-registered, please email us for your refund: info@texastestosteronefestival.com

MMA Bootcamp Intensive Coming to TTF in Houston!

Our apologies. The MMA Bootcamp Intensive in Houston October 17-18 during the Immersed in Ink Festival at the Marriott Westchase has been cancelled. The Immersed In Ink Festival, however, goes on!

In unrelated news, best of luck to Sam Hoger in his next fight!

Phil Cardella Attacks From the Back

Jon Kirk Ground and Pound

Melvin Guillard Using the Fence

Rocky Long Boxing for MMA

Kamal Shalorus Takedowns and Takedown Defense

A Manly Guide to this Year’s Austin City Limits Festival

We don’t like to write much about the “other” festivals in Texas, seeing as they are rendered insignificant in the shadow of the great Texas Testosterone Festival, but we’re excited for this year’s Austin City Limits Festival despite ourselves. Seeing as The Texas Testosterone Festival had no live music, and ACL is barely manly, we figure it’s safe to make some recommendations for those looking for a weekend of great music that won’t wuss them out.

Friday, October 2

We’ll be arriving late, picking up the kid from school, so we’ll miss Asleep at the Wheel but hope to luck out enough to make it to see

3:30-4:30 The Walkmen at Xbox 360 Stage “The Rat”

4:30-5:30 Coheed and Cambria at Livestrong Stage “The Suffering”

6:30-7:30 Thievery Corporation at Livestrong Stage “The Richest Man in Babylon”

By then, the kid will certainly be ready to go home. But if not, Andrew Bird and Kings of Leon might wussify the day too much but will beat out the other options. Note: our friends over at Rushmonkeys.com also recommend Dr. Dog and Milkshake.

Saturday, October 3

We’re going to spend the early afternoon in the Austin Kiddie Limits area watching Quinn Sullivan and Secret Agent 23 Skidoo while dreaming of how great Coheed and Cambria were the day before and then will venture into the masses to check out

3:00-4:00 Grizzly Bear at Dell Stage “While You Wait For the Others” (slightly wussy)

4:00-5:00 Flogging Molly at AMD Stage “Drunken Lullabies” (not wussy at all)

5:00-6:00 …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead at Xbox 360 Stage “Relative Ways”

5:30-6:30 Eek-A-Mouse at WFC Stage “Black Cowboy”

By then, the kid will be ready to go home and we’ll find it easy to resist the temptation to check out The Decemberists because, although great, they are wussies and Ghostland Observatory is absolutely atrocious.

Sunday, October 4

Austin City Limits will be Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears’ coming out party. Gentlemen, they’re gritty, raucous soul with a horn section Tom Jones should be jealous of. The manly breakout of 2009 will be the first set you check out on Sunday.

12:30-1:15 Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears at AMD Stage “Sugarfoot”

1:20-2:00 David Garza at Austin Ventures Stage “D’yer Mak’er”

2:00-3:00 Clutch at Livestrong Stage “Escape From the Prison Planet” (further evidence Sunday is the best of the three days of the ACL Festival, they may be more deserving of an ACL stage than anyone short of Coheed and Cambria.)

3:30-4:00 Paul Green School of Rock at Austin Kiddie Limits “Black Dog”

4:45-5:30 Brett Dennen at Austin Ventures Stage “Make You Crazy”

6:00-7:00 Ben Harper and Relentless 7 at AMD Stage “Under Pressure”

And keep in mind, for those bands that are wusses, at least the chicks in the crowd will be hot. So… there’s that.

Thank You Texas! For a Fantastic First Testosterone Festival

You came from as far away as Corpus Christi, Laredo, Houston, and Ft. Worth. You came for the MMA Stars like Amir Sadollah, Melvin Guillard, and Ricco Rodriguez, for the competitions like the Spartan Challenge and Texas Fit Model Search, and for the girls, girls, girls.

Now that the coma has past and the wife avoided the hourly temptation to pull the plug on our bed-ridden body, or snuff us out with a pillow, or leave us for the pool-boy (funny, we don’t have a pool…) we have mustered up the energy to thank you for coming.

We also want to thank our sponsors, who were wise and prescient to believe in the first Texas Testosterone Festival. Please support the companies who supported us by visiting their websites and purchasing their products and services. The links are on the right side of the page. Thank you Sugarbaby Swimwear! Thank you AT&T, Bikinis Bar and Grill, Buffalo Billiards, Cindie’s Lingerie and Gifts, DWIDude.com, Escobedo Skin Center, Floyd’s 99 Barbershops, King of Kombat, Picture Perfect Studio, Sames Red Barn Motors, and Zhen Mei Natural Supplements.

Thank you to our exhibitors: Alien Scooters, Austin Thermal Biometrics, Austin Toros, Austin Turfcats, Crossfit Central, CTC Austin, David Lee Nall, Dorkside Productions / The Nut Rag, Elegance and Grace, Expedition School, Family Health Chiropractic, Farmers Insurance / Mitchamore Agency, Fitness Training Studios, Fogo de Chao, Gamerz, Houston Sports Gallery, Hydrotunes, Kitchen Craft, Minuteman Press, Modern Woodmen of America, NOS Energy Drink, Nuwave Ovens, Relson Gracie Academy, Sideways Auto Salon, Smith Family Chiropractic, South Austin Marine, Southern Metal Choppers, Southside Tattoos, Totally Supreme, and Vital Male / Tao Health Center.

Thank you to the great team of people who worked with us to manage the Festival and its Featured Events, especially the volunteers. Thank you to those who participated in our Competitions. And Thank you to all the Special Guests who came to the Festival - too many to mention.

Thank you to the greatest design firm on planet earth, Atlantis 57 Studios, for working with us during a personally trying year. Thank you to the greatest PR agency on planet earth, Cile Montgomery and Jordan Jeffus of Giant Media, for working with us under ever-changing conditions and then delivering a small mountain of media coverage of this year’s Festival.

Thank you to businesses such as Aussie’s Volleybar and Kegerator.com for working with us in creative capacities for the benefit of our attendees.

And superstar thanks to the wife, to Amy Pitre of Sugarbaby Swimwear, Devon Hornby of Vital Male, Phil Cardella, and David Lee Nall, without whom the Festival would not have been all it came to be.

Paul Buentello Returns to the UFC

At the King of Kombat show in Austin tonight former UFC and Affliction heavyweight contender Paul Buentello announced he has resigned with the UFC. The Dripping Springs-based fighter becomes the latest addition to a stacked Heavyweight Division, unlike the division that existed when he left the UFC after fighting for the UFC Heavyweight Championship in 2006.

The signing of Buentello shouldn’t surprise too many as Buentello is one of the few fighters who would be considered strong competition for Fedor Emelianenko of Strikeforce / M-1. Buentello’s signing to the UFC makes the non-UFC Heavyweight picture a very challenging one for Fedor’s matchmakers.

Paul Buentello’s presence in the UFC Heavyweight Division will be felt very quickly. Buentello is 6-1 since losing to Andre Arlovski in the Heavyweight Title fight in October 2005.

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