Cagefight Saturday - Slayer vs. Astrud Gilberto

At first sight, this seems a cinch, right? A bet on Slayer is money in the bank. Their hometown of Huntington Park was awarded the California's Most Miserable City Award according to Business Insider, which rated it tenth overall in its nationwide census of America's Most Miserable Cities. But the band came together at the private Wilson School Of The Arts, named after celebrity Huntington resident Terry Wilson, stuntman and actor, noted for his role as Bill Hawks on the television series Wagon Train. An oasis of genteel middle-class culture where students read Proust and formed string quartets to play works by Fauré and Debussy, it was a blissful refuge for the four sensitive Catholic boys but poor preparation for their career in the wider world of Huntington Park, where their fern-decorated concerts were met with jeers and bottles of piss from a hostile and largely Hispanic audience. Forced into a change of approach, their evolution into the nation's prototypical Death Metal band was a surprise success.

Astrud Gilberto's upbringing is perhaps better known - her childhood years wrestling alligators at her father's Parque de Atracciones [Amusement Park - Ed.] in Quito was the subject of the made-for-TV biopic Astrud And The Alligators, starring Pia Zadora, with Wilf Brimley as her crusty yet lovable pop.

Study the form, and place your bets wisely!