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Mark Coleman is “The Godfather of Ground-and-Pound” and pulling down shorts.
Mark Coleman has a diverse definition of prize-fighting.
Coleman, the UFC and PRIDE tournament winner, once competed on a Japanese game show with $50,000 on the line. “The Godfather of Ground-and-Pound” was tasked with forcefully removing the shorts off a contestant trying to win the money.
“[The contestant] had two pair(s) of tight shorts on and I had to go take the one pair off. I had to get it off his legs and off his feet. … “I let him grab my leg and I was baiting the crowd a little bit. They were loving it. Then all of a sudden I said, ‘Well I better get serious, you know, I have about three minutes and I need to make sure I get these babies off,’” Coleman told MMA TRUFAN. “I throw him down to the ground and I started ripping these f—king shorts off and he’s holding on for dear life and I’m not getting so far.”
“I’m getting one side down to the knee but he’s just holding onto the other side and when I go up for the other side he would just grab the other side and keep pulling them up… I’m out there out of shape, in between fights, and this motherf—ker was holding on for fifty grand,” the UFC Hall of Famer continued. “I just ripped so hard I just ripped them right off. [The shorts] ripped right in half. And [the producers] looked at me and said, ‘Nope!’ and they brought out another pair of shorts to put back on him.”
Coleman had his grit and determination tested in ways that a UFC championship, multiple world-class MMA tournaments and NCAA wrestling simply could not prepare him for.
“I’m getting so f—king frustrated because I’m so tired and I cannot get these f—king shorts down. You know what I mean? Because he just keeps grabbing and pulling,” he recalled. “I said, ‘I gotta turn it up a little bit. I gotta get dirty here.’ So I had to start getting physical with him and really put the heat on him.”
Ultimately, Coleman (16-10) succeeded.
“I took them off with about twenty seconds left, I swear to God. I held these f—kers up in the air and I’m like ‘Ah.’ It felt so great because I couldn’t wait to go get the sushi that these guys are going to take me to get now,” he concluded. “I’m going to eat f—king $5,000 dollars worth of sushi right now. Real good fresh sushi with fresh wasabi.”
What a life.