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Jon Jones Might Want to Think Long and Hard About This Whole Movie Acting Thing

(Video courtesy of YouTube/MMAHeat)

Hopefully  for Jon Jones’ sake the UFC fighter film curse doesn’t extend to him.

As we mentioned over the weekend, the UFC light heavyweight champion told Karyn Bryant last week that he was at Warner Bros. for a meeting to discuss the possibility of starring in one of the company’s upcoming  films. Looking back at his fellow UFC fighters’ track records after starring in movies, “Bones” might want to think long and hard about whether or not he wants to become an actor at this point in his career.

An explanation after the jump.


(Video courtesy of YouTube/MMAHeat)

Hopefully  for Jon Jones’ sake the UFC fighter film curse doesn’t extend to him.

As we mentioned over the weekend, the UFC light heavyweight champion told Karyn Bryant last week that he was at Warner Bros. for a meeting to discuss the possibility of starring in one of the company’s upcoming  films. Looking back at his fellow UFC fighters’ track records after starring in movies, “Bones” might want to think long and hard about whether or not he wants to become an actor at this point in his career.

Here’s the proof:

• When The Scorpion King 2 was released in  2008, Randy Couture  lost back to back fights to Brock Lesnar and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. Sure, he beat James Toney the same month that The Expendables was released, but since that one was more like a light sparring session we’ll look at the Machida fight as being the one that counts.

• Chuck Liddell dropped two straight to Quinton Jackson and Keith Jardine after The Life and Death of Bobby Z was released in 2007 and lost three in a row to Rashad Evans, Mauricio Rua and Rich Franklin after Drillbit Taylor hit theatres in 2008.

• After Cyborg Soldier was released, Rich Franklin lost to Dan Henderson.

• Quinton Jackson lost to Rashad Evans after Never Surrender was released. He won his first fight after the release of A-Team, but the split decision over Lyoto Machida was hotly contested and could have just as easily have gone to “The Dragon.”

• Tito Ortiz lost his next two fights and Chuck Liddell lost his UFC interim light heavyweight title bout to Randy Couture after Cradle 2 the Grave hit theatres in 2003.

• Ortiz hasn’t won a fight since appearing in Zombie Strippers in 2008.

• Keith Jardine lost four in a row and was dropped from the UFC roster after Crank: High Voltage came out in 2009.

*As an aside, Karyn likes CP and thinks we’re hilarious….

 

Wednesday Morning MMA Link Club

(“Camp Carwin” Episode 4: In which Shane shows off the new diet that has dropped him from 285 lbs. to 255 lbs. Props: officialbudlight)

– Karyn Bryant: It Takes Much More Than That to Horrify Me [Exclusive Interview] (LowKick)

– Inside MMA: Tito Ortiz Addresses Altercation With Matt Mitrione, Hendo Talks Fedor (MMA Convert)

– Five Lessons: UFC 130 (NBC Sports MMA)

– Check Out This 10-Second Faceplant KO From Cage Warriors 42 This Past Weekend (MiddleEasy)

– UFC 130 Medical Suspensions and Injuries for ‘Rampage vs Hamill’ (MMA Mania)

– Chael Sonnen Responds to Jason Miller and Michael Bisping as “TUF 14? Coaches (5thRound)

– Clay Guida: Anthony Pettis Bout Will Be a Fight of the Year Candidate (MMA Fighting)

– UFC Allows Kevin James to Use Their Brand in MMA Comedy Film (TheFightNerd)

– UFC 131 Conference Call Highlights (Five Ounces of Pain)

– The 20 Greatest UFC Fighters of the Pre Zuffa Era (BleacherReport.com/MMA)


(“Camp Carwin” Episode 4: In which Shane shows off the new diet that has dropped him from 285 lbs. to 255 lbs. Props: officialbudlight)

– Karyn Bryant: It Takes Much More Than That to Horrify Me [Exclusive Interview] (LowKick)

– Inside MMA: Tito Ortiz Addresses Altercation With Matt Mitrione, Hendo Talks Fedor (MMA Convert)

– Five Lessons: UFC 130 (NBC Sports MMA)

– Check Out This 10-Second Faceplant KO From Cage Warriors 42 This Past Weekend (MiddleEasy)

– UFC 130 Medical Suspensions and Injuries for ‘Rampage vs Hamill’ (MMA Mania)

– Chael Sonnen Responds to Jason Miller and Michael Bisping as “TUF 14? Coaches (5thRound)

– Clay Guida: Anthony Pettis Bout Will Be a Fight of the Year Candidate (MMA Fighting)

– UFC Allows Kevin James to Use Their Brand in MMA Comedy Film (TheFightNerd)

– UFC 131 Conference Call Highlights (Five Ounces of Pain)

– The 20 Greatest UFC Fighters of the Pre Zuffa Era (BleacherReport.com/MMA)

Apparently Besides Believing He Can Act, Steven Seagal Also Thinks He Invented the Front Kick

  (Video courtesy YouTube/MMAHeat)
When Anderson Silva mentioned in his post-UFC 126 fight interview that Steven Seagal taught him the front kick that he knocked Vitor Belfort out with Saturday night most of the MMA community were willing to give…

 
(Video courtesy YouTube/MMAHeat)

When Anderson Silva mentioned in his post-UFC 126 fight interview that Steven Seagal taught him the front kick that he knocked Vitor Belfort out with Saturday night most of the MMA community were willing to give the Hard to Kill, Out for Justice Lawman the benefit of the doubt, but when the Marked for Death, Above the Law Glimmer Man told reporters that he invented the textbook front kick, we weren’t the only ones who called bullshit.

Here’s what Seagal had to say to MMA Heat’s Karyn Bryant about Silva’s win:

"I couldn’t have been happier, because right before he walked out I said to him, ‘Stay away from him for the first, you know, two, three minutes, just kind of get him frustrated and fake low and come high and do that kick I’ve been teaching you and kick him in the head or the face. He did exactly what I said and exactly what I wanted to happen and I was very, very proud of him…I was raised in Japan under some of the greatest karate masters and jiu-jitsu masters to live in our time and I learned that kick 40 years ago or 30 years….35…I don’t know — a long, long time ago and I worked for the last 35 years or so to perfect it."

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