There are many reasons to love the various sports our great nation has to offer. Each sport has at least one major reason we love to follow it. It could be because of our favorite team, player, or even coach. For me it was Will Clark in baseball, New O…
There are many reasons to love the various sports our great nation has to offer. Each sport has at least one major reason we love to follow it. It could be because of our favorite team, player, or even coach. For me it was Will Clark in baseball, New Orleans Saints in football, and Alonzo Mourning in basketball.
If I had to do the same for Mixed Martial Arts, I would be in a difficult situation because there are more than one reason to love this sport. I found 25 excellent reasons to follow a sport that was once known as Vale Tudo.
Of course, many of my choices are women but who can really blame me once you take a look at the selections?
As much as we tend to believe that our lives suck sometimes, there are individuals out there that are living in way worse conditions than we can even begin to fathom. Sure, you might have bad days but at least you have a place to live, at least you are…
As much as we tend to believe that our lives suck sometimes, there are individuals out there that are living in way worse conditions than we can even begin to fathom.
Sure, you might have bad days but at least you have a place to live, at least you are getting three square meals a day, at least you have clothes on your back.
Then, of course, you have your extra luxuries such as cell phones, iPods, laptops, and maybe even an easy bake oven for all you hefty children out there—if they even still make those.
Come to think of it, when you have all of that it’s kind of silly to complain about how terrible your life is when there are children in Africa who have nothing. They don’t have clothing or food or a comfortable bed or clean water or a sturdy roof over their head.
Legitimately, they have nothing and a lot of these children are forced at a very young age to fight as soldiers in what is known as an Invisible War.
An evil piece of trash that isn’t even worthy of living up a warthogs anus named Joseph Kony and his LRA army have abducted an estimated 66,000 children to fight for them.
Not many people here in the United States are aware of the current situation in Africa but when blonde bombshell and current ring girl for the Bellator Fighting Championships, Jade Bryce, became aware of this she knew she had to do something.
Here is her story.
“When I first went to Africa, I went by myself without an organization. I saw a documentary by Invisible Children when I was about 21 and it just struck my life. [Ever since watching that] I had a hard time falling asleep knowing about what was going on over there and knowing what the children go through,” Bryce told Mitch Ciccarelli on MMA Mass Debation Radio.
“I didn’t really know what I could do [to help], just being this little girl from Texas but what I started doing was showing the film at places like Starbucks and taking donations and selling things such as merchandise like hats or shirts that I would make.”
“I would raise anywhere from 700 to 3,000 dollars and, even though it was hard work to do by myself, at the end of the event I would always feel like ‘gosh, this money wouldn’t be there if I hadn’t worked so hard to do the event’ so it started to become something that was very fulfilling.”
Invisible Children is a movement that seeks to end the conflict in Africa and bring the child soldiers home. According to their website, they seek to rebuild schools, educate future leaders and provide jobs in Northern Uganda.
Bryce was busting her incredibly well shaped booty to do all that she could to help make a difference in their cause. She eventually decided to visit the children herself in Africa on a trip that would emotionally change her life.
“I got on a plane by myself and I went to Africa. From the moment I landed from the moment I left, it was just such an emotional experience falling in love with these children that were dying of hunger or had HIV from their parents or were just in so much pain,” Bryce said.
“When I came back, my friend Lewis [Myers] and I started CRASH and I also have been working very closely with an organization called Hello Somebody and right now we are funding meals in Somalia. What I’m doing is when people make a donation I’ll give them an autograph photo from my Fight Magazine spread.”
“We’ve provided about 25,000 meals to Somalia in the last month, Hello Somebody has. I’m very passionate about many causes but really, any child in need whether it’s in Texas or Africa or China or anywhere, it just really rips my heart.”
Bryce felt like she was truly making a positive difference and she was, and she still is, but one incident in particular was immensely difficult for her to deal with.
“I had pulled a child out of a bush who had been strangled by his mother because she just wanted to put him out of his pain of starvation so she killed him because she didn’t want him to be in pain anymore and that was something that was so hard for me to see.”
Everything that Bryce is doing in her modeling and acting career, it’s all so that one day she can be in a position where she can help causes such as CRASH, Invisible Children and Hello Somebody on larger scales than she is currently able to do right now.
Alongside the beautiful Mercedes Terrell (soon to be Mercedes Ciccarelli), Bryce can be seen on MTV 2 during Bellator Fighting Championships programming.
She was hired by Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney at the start of season four due to a recommendation from a Spanish announcer.
“It’s been a dream come true. I’ve been a huge fan of MMA for the past four or five years now and it’s really been the only sport that I keep up with. I absolutely love it and passionately talk about any chance I can get and I never dreamed that one day I would be working in the industry,” Bryce said.
“I started modeling a year and a half ago and in some blog, I can’t even remember which blog it was but I was asked which sport was my favorite and I said ‘MMA all the way’ and listed a ton of my favorite fighters. Paul Thatcher from Fight Magazine, who is now one of my really close friends, contacted me and asked to shoot for Fight Magazine and I was ecstatic.”
“So I shot with them and a fighter by the name of Nick “The Ghost” Gonzales picked it up in a barber shop, read it and saw that the favorite fighters that I had listed were all in Bellator. His manager, Manny [Rodriguez], is the Bellator Spanish commentator so Manny contacted me and let me know that they were looking for a blonde ring girl and after I interviewed with them I got the position.”
With the UFC recently reaching a multi-year agreement with FOX Sports, rumors have been circulating media outlets that Bellator will fill the now empty MMA void on Spike TV.
Bryce has heard those rumors, and while isn’t sure if the switch in networks is indeed going to happen, believes it would be a huge deal for Bellator if it did.
“I don’t think anything has been confirmed yet but it does look like we are going to [sign with Spike TV]. I think that would be amazing because not everyone has MTV 2 but we’ve been absolutely blessed to be on MTV 2 and it would be just as big of a blessing to switch over to Spike,” Bryce said.
“I hope it happens, it sounds like it is but I usually don’t find out where we’re going until I get my plane ticket so I’m not as up to date on whether or not we’re switching to Spike but I do hope that we are and I have heard that it’s in the works.”
Bellator season five is set to air on MTV 2 beginning this Saturday, September 10. The main card will feature four fights of the first round of their welterweight tournament featuring notables such as former UFC fighter Ben Saunders, Douglas Lima, Dan Hornbuckle and Steve Carl.
Not one to shy away from making predictions, the lovely Bryce tells us who she thinks is taking the tournament. She also gives a bold pick for the organization’s next lightweight title fight which is set to headline Bellator 54.
“I do pick Ben Saunders [to win the welterweight tournament] and I also think Michael Chandler is going to win the lightweight belt even though Eddie Alvarez is everyone’s favorite. I really think that Chandler is going to win that belt,” Bryce said.
“Every one of Chandler’s fights in Bellator so far, me and Jimmy Smith the commentator, we tell each other who we think is going to win and then that person has to buy dinner after the fight and I always win and I’ve picked Chandler every single time. For some reason, he never picks Chandler and I always end up saying ‘I told you so’. Everyone seems to be picking Alvarez but I know that I am going to be saying ‘I told you so’ again.”
To listen to the latest episode of MMA Mass Debation Radio featuring Jade Bryce, Brittney Palmer, and Tracy Lee. Click the link below.
Watching MMA is cool, but watching the the ring girls, fighters and models is even better.The women of mixed martial arts have taken over the sports hottie scene like never before. Not only are these females gorgeous, but they are extremely cool and ta…
Watching MMA is cool, but watching the the ring girls, fighters and models is even better.
The women of mixed martial arts have taken over the sports hottie scene like never before. Not only are these females gorgeous, but they are extremely cool and take amazing photos.
I hope that we see MMA stay around for a long time because these ring girls are single-handedly carrying the female athletic world.
Here are the 20 steamiest MMA videos from the Internet. You will love it.
If you train in any area of Mixed Martial Arts or even if only a fight fan, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Hayabusa Fightwear. Some notable fighters sponsored by Hayabusa Fightwear include, Lyoto “The Dragon Machida”, Alistair Overeem, S…
If you train in any area of Mixed Martial Arts or even if only a fight fan, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Hayabusa Fightwear.
Some notable fighters sponsored by Hayabusa Fightwear include, Lyoto “The Dragon Machida”, Alistair Overeem, Stephan Bonner and Yoshihiro Akiyama.
Hayabusa Fightwear arguably make the very best fightwear and fight gear that money can buy and they’ve added an incredible new line of MMA training gear to their already amazing line of ass-kicking products; the Hayabusa Kanpeki Elite Series.
The word Kanpeki is of Japanese origin and means “perfection” in English and I can think of no better way to describe the product line.
Fashioned from top-quality, full-grain leather, each exquisitely beautiful piece of gear is constructed to last.
Functionality meets style with the Kanpeki line. Not a single centimeter of material went un-scrutinized. Everything was perfectly engineered down to the smallest details.
Hayabusa Fightwear represents the true spirit of a fighter.
I will be individually reviewing four separate pieces of training and sparring gear from the Hayabusa Kanpeki Elite Series in this Bleacher Report MMA featured slideshow.
While the NFL and NBA rely on traditional cheerleaders, the UFC has pumped it up a bit with many different roles a female model or athlete can step into.From the ring and Octagon girls to the spokesmodels and on-air hosts, if you are looking to advance…
While the NFL and NBA rely on traditional cheerleaders, the UFC has pumped it up a bit with many different roles a female model or athlete can step into.
From the ring and Octagon girls to the spokesmodels and on-air hosts, if you are looking to advance your career the UFC is sure to help.
Join us as we visually explore the nine hottest UFC girls in a new video from Bleacher Report Productions. This video may be all swagger but who knew Natasha Wicks, the winner of the “Octagon Girl Search,” was all natural?
Did you know spokesmodel Andrea Tiede from Las Vegas had a speaking role in “Oceans 13”? Better dust of the Blu-ray and check that out as soon as you are done watching this video.
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This week’s episode of The Bruce Lee Story: As Told by You–Episode 5, brought to us by Round 5 and aired on collectbrucelee.com, features current UFC fighter Matt Mitrione and The Ultimate Fighter Season 12 contestant Andy Main, speaking ab…
This week’s episode of The Bruce Lee Story: As Told by You–Episode 5, brought to us by Round 5 and aired on collectbrucelee.com, features current UFC fighter Matt Mitrione and The Ultimate Fighter Season 12 contestant Andy Main, speaking about Bruce Lee’s affect on the future of Mixed Martial Arts and the world.
Main speaks quietly, calmly and almost solemnly about his hero and the man who has inspired the universe.
“Bruce Lee has been an icon for martial arts in general and for me personally. I believe that Bruce Lee was really the first true mixed martial artist.”
What are the first words that come to mind when you think of Bruce Lee?
To Mitrione, they are “legend, originator…just one of a kind.”
Many people, both fighters and fans alike, may not have known that Lee regularly incorporated various forms of grappling into his training regimen.
“I have his book–The Tao of Jeet Kune Do–it’s still underneath my bed and I remember reading through it.
“That was actually the first exposure to grappling that I ever had…I don’t remember if it was takedowns, but it was some forms of grappling in the book. So, it was really awesome,” remembers Main.
No matter whom you ask about what Lee means to them, you will undoubtedly receive a unique answer in reply.
“Bruce Lee has impacted me in several ways, but more than anything else it’s the consciousness of unconscious movement; letting whatever happens happen, but making sure you’re always in control of whatever the situation is,” comments Mitrione.
The creators of this series, Round 5, a Canadian Mixed Martial Arts toy company would love to hear from the readers on how Bruce Lee has affected their lives.
As much as we tend to believe that our lives suck sometimes, there are individuals out there that are living in way worse conditions than we can even begin to fathom.