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(Thank you, Internet. You never fail us. Dancing Gina Carano GIF via MMAConvert)
UFC 141‘s best moments, boiled down to 12 animated gifs. Check out the rest after the jump. Special thanks to IronForgesIron, Chas, and Unfilter on the UG.
(Thank you, Internet. You never fail us. Dancing Gina Carano GIF via MMAConvert)
UFC 141‘s best moments, boiled down to 12 animated gifs. Check out the rest after the jump. Special thanks to IronForgesIron, Chas, and Unfilter on the UG.
Alistair Overeem vs. Brock Lesnar
Johny Hendricks vs. Jon Fitch
(Anderson Silva: Like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and America’s Best Dance Crew, all rolled into one. / Photo courtesy of CombatLifestyle.com. Check out the full gallery after the jump.)
As we enter the last week of 2011, join us in celebrating the year’s most memorable images — from tense face-offs to action shots, ring girl pin-ups to gnarly post-fight injuries, and other assorted insanity. If we’ve left out any of your favorite MMA photos from the past year, drop us a link in the comments section. Enjoy…
As we enter the last week of 2011, join us in celebrating the year’s most memorable images — from tense face-offs to action shots, ring girl pin-ups to gnarly post-fight injuries, and other assorted insanity. If we’ve left out any of your favorite MMA photos from the past year, drop us a link in the comments section. Enjoy…
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Actress/fighter Gina Carano is featured in the January 2012 issue of GQ, plugging her movie Haywire, and we’re finding it hard to concentrate on anything else today. Granted, we’ve seen some amazing photos of this woman over the years, but this is some next-level shit right here. Okay, Hollywood, you can have her. It’s for the greater good.
(Click here for the glorious full-size version. Props: GQ via Fightlinker)
Actress/fighter Gina Carano is featured in the January 2012 issue of GQ, plugging her movie Haywire, and we’re finding it hard to concentrate on anything else today. Granted, we’ve seen some amazing photos of this woman over the years, but this is some next-level shit right here. Okay, Hollywood, you can have her. It’s for the greater good.
Exercising their constitutional rights, Zuffa filed a lawsuit along with several MMA fans and fighters including Jon Jones, Frankie Edgar, Gina Carano and Matt Hamill on Tuesday U.S. District Court in the Southern District of.
Exercising their constitutional rights, Zuffa filed a lawsuit along with several MMA fans and fighters including Jon Jones, Frankie Edgar, Gina Carano and Matt Hamill on Tuesday U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York against state attorney general Eric Schneiderman and Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
Zuffa attorney, Barry Friedman explained to Yahoo! Sports that the reasons given for banning MMA events in New York are a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendmants. Friedman stated:
“They banned it because they thought MMA conveyed a message of violence. We don’t think that is the message that MMA conveys. I just spent the last few days with a lot of fighters and I spent a lot of time with them over the last few months. They will, as you can see in the complaint, talk about a lot of other values that are present [in MMA] like discipline, courage and respect for an opponent…. But even if violence was the message, New York still can’t ban MMA because it doesn’t like that message.”
“On safety, what they’re saying is, ‘You can’t do this because it’s not safe. Any time the government says you can’t do something that involves your liberty, that is a 14th Amendment claim because it is denying people of their life or liberty without due process. And it’s also a discrimination claim… Why ban mixed martial arts as unsafe when the data shows it’s at least as safe, or safer than a lot of other sports, like boxing, football, ice hockey, Alpine skiing, equestrian sports? It turns out the most dangerous thing you can do is be a flyer in cheerleading. So you ask, what parts of the Constitution cover that, and it’s the equal protection clause.”
The man has a point.
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When Gina Carano quietly slipped away from MMA for two years, many thought that Strikeforce was grooming Ronda Rousey to be the next face of women’s MMA.
Last weekend “Rowdy” Rousey spoke with Ariel Helwani about a variety of subjects and the outspoken decorated judoka who faces Julia Budd later this month had a lot to say on what makes women marketable in the sport among other topics.
Check out the quick quotes from the interview after the jump.
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When Gina Carano quietly slipped away from MMA for two years, many thought that Strikeforce was grooming Ronda Rousey to be the next face of women’s MMA.
Last weekend “Rowdy” Rousey spoke with Ariel Helwani about a variety of subjects and the outspoken decorated judoka who faces Julia Budd later this month had a lot to say on what makes women marketable in the sport among other topics.
Here’s what Miss Rousey had to say about:
Her submission win over Sarah D’Alelio in her last bout:
“She was screaming and I could actually feel her arm popping out and if you dislocate someone’s arm [with an armbar] it’s actually in the most sensitive area of your body. So if you’re implying that I’m imagining sensations in that area, then we have another argument on our hands. I thought she was yelling, ‘Tap, tap!’ as loud as she could.Other people told me they heard that too. She said she was just yelling out, but they tell you right before you walk in that anything verbal during the submission is a verbal submission. It counts as tapping. I thought she couldn’t tap because she was falling forward and using her arm to catch herself. I think if she could have tapped she would [have].”
What makes her a marketable commodity:
“Well I’m doing the best to be as marketable as possible… I’m training as hard as possible. I want to have an exciting style — not just to win matches, but to win them impressively. And I took the time to do my hair and nails and make-up today. You have to do everything that you can to make it interesting. I think that if you want to bring in new fans you really have to play up that entertainment aspect. If the fan’s already there, they’re going to start appreciating you and the actual skill and athleticism that goes into fighting. To bring people in you’ve got to show them something bright and shiny at first to get them to look. Then it’s the skill and true sportsmanship that gets them to stay.”
Her recent trend of putting out video blogs with deceiving titles like “RONDA ROUSEY UNEDITED SEX VIDEO.”
“I just kind of think that if an unedited sex video comes out later, then people just won’t believe the title and they won’t click on it, so then I’ll get away with it. I’m just saying it’s a possibility I’m prepared for.”
Her short and long term goals in the sport:
“I’ve only been doing MMA for one year and I’ve had six fights in 12 months. I would like to have five or six more professional fights before I went for a title. Miesha Tate did kinda call me out on Twitter, so I’m considering getting some extra fights down at 135 and slapping that title out of her hands, first and then grabbing the other one second and hopefully unifying the two divisions.”
Her thoughts on fighting Carano at this point in her young career:
“I would fight her today, for sure. I don’t think she would want to fight me right away. I think we’d both be better off if she came back and had a couple really good impressive looking wins first, and then let me beat her later.”
Zuffa LLC, the parent company of the UFC, has filed a lawsuit against New York State Attorney General Eric Shneiderman and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance with the ultimate purpose of legalizing MMA in New York, according to the Wall Street Jou…
Zuffa LLC, the parent company of the UFC, has filed a lawsuit against New York State Attorney General Eric Shneiderman and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance with the ultimate purpose of legalizing MMA in New York, according to the Wall Street Journal.
What’s the crux of Zuffa’s argument?
That the banning of MMA in New York tramples over the right to freedom of speech given by the first amendment, although the amendment is interpreted to include more than just speech.
One such case that Zuffa bases its argument on is Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, a case in which it was determined that banning the sale of violent video games was an infringement on first amendment rights.
Zuffa has brought on a veritable who’s who of plaintiffs, including Jon Jones, Gina Carano, Frankie Edgar, Brian Stann and Matt Hamill.
The man representing Zuffa and the other plaintiffs—New York University School of Law professor Barry Friedman—is making full use of the fact that the sport is called mixed martial arts in his case against New York State.
“It’s martial artistry,” said Friedman. “The nature of martial arts is a lot like dancing…As is true of ballet, music, or theater, for an audience, attending a live MMA event is an experience that cannot be replicated on a screen.”
So will attacking the law that bans MMA succeed with this new strategy?
Jonathan Snowden, MMA writer and lawyer, is pessimistic.
He tweeted: “UFC’s fifth cause of action is that the law is ‘Unconstitutionally Irrational.’ More than 100 pages in and only two cases cited. Hmm…”
He then tweeted that despite his long time away from law school, he though that Zuffa “doesn’t have much of a case at all.”
The UFC has tried to lift the ban on MMA in New York on multiple occasions and was met with failure each time, despite donating over $70,000 to the campaign of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Only time will tell if the UFC can be successful this time around.
The legal documentation regarding the case can be read here.
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