Another super-fight, up in smoke. Chicago’s MMA informs us that War Machine‘s post-prison return fight against Gideon Ray has been scratched from the main event of Chicago Cagefighting Championship 4 (October 15th; Villa Park, IL). From a press-release sent out by the promoter:
Over the weekend Gideon informed Chicago Cagefighting that he had suffered an injury to his hand and would not be able to compete. To compound problems, War Machine suffered a cut to his chin during training and is not able to train for at least a week. When a suitable replacement for Gideon could not be found, we made a tough decision. With only three weeks to the event we were forced to cancel the entire bout.
(Still got it.)
Another super-fight, up in smoke. Chicago’s MMA informs us that War Machine‘s post-prison return fight against Gideon Ray has been scratched from the main event of Chicago Cagefighting Championship 4 (October 15th; Villa Park, IL). From a press-release sent out by the promoter:
Over the weekend Gideon informed Chicago Cagefighting that he had suffered an injury to his hand and would not be able to compete. To compound problems, War Machine suffered a cut to his chin during training and is not able to train for at least a week. When a suitable replacement for Gideon could not be found, we made a tough decision. With only three weeks to the event we were forced to cancel the entire bout.
In our continuing effort to bring the best possible show to our fans, CCC was able to sign Sean “Big Sexy” McCorkle. Sean has a pedigree as big as the cage and his only 2 losses came in the UFC. Sean is looking to get back to the top and felt that a win in the “Windy City” would help get him there. “Big Sexy” will be taking on Justin “The Griz” Grizzard. This will be CCC’s first Super Heavyweight fight and we know the fans will certainly get their monies worth.
According to MixedMartialArts.com, Grizzard is a 7-13 jobber from Omaha who’s listed at 230 pounds, making this more of an open-weight squash-match than a super-heavyweight fight. Since his release from the UFC, McCorkle has picked up a pair of first-round submission victories in regional promotions; one of his opponents even had a winning record. (The other one definitely didn’t.) Good luck to Big Sexy — not that he’ll need it — and condolences to the Chicago-area MMA fans who wanted to be the first to throw cups of beer at War Machine.
After all the ink we gave to War Machine‘s deep thoughts about D.I.Y. asshole-plucking and bologna sex fantasies while in prison, it only seems fair that we should keep you updated on his actual MMA career. (Ed. note: zzzzzzz) The eccentric UFC veteran has been a free man since July, and his fall dance card is starting to fill up.
On Saturday, October 15th, War Machine will headline Chicago Cagefighting Championship 4, which goes down at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, IL. His opponent will be TUF 4 castmember and “local fan favorite” Gideon Ray, who hasn’t competed since last July. The card will also feature Carson Beebe, Josh Shockley, and Chico Camus. Tickets start at just $20.
After all the ink we gave to War Machine‘s deep thoughts about D.I.Y. asshole-plucking and bologna sex fantasies while in prison, it only seems fair that we should keep you updated on his actual MMA career. (Ed. note: zzzzzzz) The eccentric UFC veteran has been a free man since July, and his fall dance card is starting to fill up.
On Saturday, October 15th, War Machine will headline Chicago Cagefighting Championship 4, which goes down at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, IL. His opponent will be TUF 4 castmember and “local fan favorite” Gideon Ray, who hasn’t competed since last July. The card will also feature Carson Beebe, Josh Shockley, and Chico Camus. Tickets start at just $20.
But a bigger fight looms on the horizon…
Earlier today, a pair of twitter messages from Roger Huerta and PhuketTopTeam claimed that the UFC’s former Hispanic poster boy will be fighting War Machine on November 26th in Pharr, Texas, for an unspecified promotion. War Machine clarified that it wasn’t a done deal just yet: ”lol…rumors sure fly, Ive agreed to the fight but contracts havent been signed yet. I fight Gideon in Chicago first regardless.”
After two career-killing losses under the Bellator banner against Pat Curran and Eddie Alvarez, is a jump to welterweight against War Machine’s crazy ass really the best move for Huerta? That remains to be seen, but both fighters could use a big win right now to jump-start their careers. Fine, we’re interested.
One more thing: War Machine’s wife has a grenade neck-tattoo, just like him. Awwwww?
Our favorite MMA convict, War Machine is a free man in just under a month and when he gets out, the fighter formerly known as Jon Koppenhaver wants all of us to know that even though his Big House Blogswill cease, he plans on continuing to entertain us with an autobiography he has been penning the past few months behind bars.
Check out what he had to say about his tome and his final weeks in jail in his two latest blog entries after the jump.
Our favorite MMA convict, War Machine is a free man in just under a month and when he gets out, the fighter formerly known as Jon Koppenhaver wants all of us to know that even though his Big House Blogswill cease, he plans on continuing to entertain us with an autobiography he has been penning the past few months behind bars.
Check out what he had to say about his tome and his final weeks in jail in his two latest blog entries below:
June 2nd, 2011
Oh shiiitt! It’s June! Can’t fucking believe I’ve been in this shit hole 11 months!! July 15th I’m free! Hell yeah! I’ve been getting in pretty good shape too. Hopefully the transition back to real training will be smooth, can’t wait to fight! OMG! My fingers ache from trying to finish a rough draft of my book by my release. Fuck pencils/paper! I wish I had my MacBook! Once I’m free I’m gonna clean it up nice and try to get it published. I think it will do well, I’ve read several NY Times Best Selling Auto-Bios and wasn’t too impressed. I have done A LOT and learned A LOT. Much more than the people in the book I’ve read, we’ll see though. If nothing else, it killed a lot of time for me in here. Fuck! I’m so excited to get out, I have a lot of high expectations for the future. Anyway, same boring shit in here, people’s lives wasting away. Another guy OD’d and was seizing as they rolled him out on the stretcher, he lived, but there’s something creepy about watching a seizure, I hate it! Gives me the heeby geebies. Anyway, I read a crazy book series by Zecharia Sitchin called “The Earth Chronicles” – you should check it out, makes you think! Also been reading a couple of that guy Pavel Tsatsouline’s books… he says some good shit, a small amount of dumb shit, but overall good. BUT, he CONSTANTLY advertises all his other books, throughout each book, and it’s fucking obnoxious! Makes me not like him as much, but maybe it’s the publisher’s fault? Either way, you should check them out. Alright, more next week! Thanks for the continued e-mails and support!
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June 10th, 2011
I’m in pretty good shape now, given my circumstances, but doing the same shit over and over again wears on you. Sucks though cuz options are limited when you’re stuck in a cell 24/7. Just need to keep at it another month until I get out so I can hit the gym and be ready to fight ASAP!! I heard BAMMA is having a show on Sept. 10th and I really want on it! That’s only 10 weeks of real training after 12 months of nothing but I’m confident that I’ll bounce back quick and be able to beat some ass by Sept. 10th! Fuck! I hope I can get on that card! And once I’m in shape and got my 1st fight back out of the way, I’m gonna keep on scrappin’ non-stop so promoters EVERYWHERE need to throw fights at me non-stop! Fuck fighting a few times/year – I’m gonna do a Jeremy Horn and fight all the time.
Anyway, sick of all the idiots in here. I sit back and observe and it all makes me sick. Gangs are a joke. They act all righteous and family-like face to face and then they burn one another constantly as soon as they turn around. Bunch of fakers, liars, and cheaters man. I feel bad for the young kids that get sucked into that life, as they look for a sense of family and for male role models. Kids that grow up around that garbage never even had a chance man. I can see that all of these dudes are just human and have goodness in them but the years of the life they’ve lived has conditioned and programmed them into what they are now. Oh well, what can you do? Fuck it, just ready to be back to my life. Really look forward to showing the world that I’m serious and have a new outlook on life! I’m over the dumb shit, just want to do positive and be successful from now on.
So there’s a new skinhead in our module and apparently, he doesn’t approve of me being in “the hole” for the reason which I’m here for. If you haven’t been following my Tweets/blogs, I’m here because 1) I was sick of having cellies and 2) To make sure I don’t get in any fights my last few months. I WANT TO GO HOME, NOT GET NEW CHARGES. He says if I want to remain “active” I need to go back to the “main-line.” LOL. I told him this jail bullshit ain’t my world and that I can care less about being “active.” He then asked why I don’t go to the “PC” module. I said “What for?” He said, “That’s where you go for protective custody.” As if I’m protecting myself from others? I’m protecting myself from myself! Then he kept mentioning how things would be different if there weren’t a door between us. I said, “Why? What difference would it make if it weren’t? I’d beat you up and then what?” LOL. Anyway, if I want to be part of the “white man” I need to go back to “mainline” or go “PC.” Why the fuck would I want to live with child molesters and rats!? Just cuz I don’t want to take part in this world of phony respect and politics I should live with rats and child molesters? Yeah right! Anyway, now the “active” white men are not allowed to talk to me, and in the future if I went to prison again or whatever, I’d get fucked up… blah blah blah. Don’t care and don’t plan on coming back. Jail politics can suck my dick!
(Spit-bags: The sure sign of a bad time. Photo courtesy of TMZ.)
By Ben Goldstein and Jason Moles
The rule applies in any profession: For every law-abiding nice-guy, there’s an unstable son-of-a-bitch who you’d never want to leave your kids alone with. In honor of Breaking Bad: The Complete Third Season being released on DVD and Blu-ray, we decided to take a ride through MMA’s shadowy history of assault, robbery, vandalism, drug-smuggling, and other nasty behavior — the most infamous examples of fighters living dangerously and paying the price…
#16: Jeff Monson Arrested for: First-degree malicious mischief; assault on a female and injury to real property
It’s never a good idea to have evidence of your law-breaking published nationally. In a bizarre lapse of judgment, heavyweight veteran Jeff Monson was busted after he allowed ESPN the Magazine to photograph him spray-painting an anarchy symbol on the Washington state capitol building. Though the charge packed a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, the Snowman was able to plead down to three months. Just days later, Monson was arrested again when a domestic dust-up with one of his many love-interests resulted in an overturned grandfather clock and a fist-shaped hole in the wall; those charges were later dismissed.
(Spit-bags: The sure sign of a bad time. Photo courtesy of TMZ.)
By Ben Goldstein and Jason Moles
The rule applies in any profession: For every law-abiding nice-guy, there’s an unstable son-of-a-bitch who you’d never want to leave your kids alone with. In honor of Breaking Bad: The Complete Third Season being released on DVD and Blu-ray, we decided to take a ride through MMA’s shadowy history of assault, robbery, vandalism, drug-smuggling, and other nasty behavior — the most infamous examples of fighters living dangerously and paying the price…
#16: Jeff Monson Arrested for: First-degree malicious mischief; assault on a female and injury to real property
It’s never a good idea to have evidence of your law-breaking published nationally. In a bizarre lapse of judgment, heavyweight veteran Jeff Monson was busted after he allowed ESPN the Magazine to photograph him spray-painting an anarchy symbol on the Washington state capitol building. Though the charge packed a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, the Snowman was able to plead down to three months. Just days later, Monson was arrested again when a domestic dust-up with one of his many love-interests resulted in an overturned grandfather clock and a fist-shaped hole in the wall; those charges were later dismissed.
Last May, MMA’s most famous ex-wife ended an argument with her personal assistant by choking and shaking her on a bed. Couture was reportedly upset that the assistant wanted to move out of her house after living there for three weeks. The original report left us with these unsettling lines: “It seems that part of the friction that developed between the victim and Ms. Couture was that Ms. Couture was extremely controlling; she wouldn’t permit the victim any autonomy; and the implication that Ms. Couture wanted something more from the victim than just personal assistant services.”
#14: Harold Howard Arrested for: Aggravated assault, assault causing bodily harm, dangerous driving, failing to remain at the scene of an accident, etc.
The short version? He attacked two relatives with a claw hammer, then crashed his pick-up truck through the front doors of a Niagara Falls casino. It was later revealed that Howard had been self-medicating with a head-scrambling blend of Oxycocet, Gabapentin, and sleeping pills. Which begs the question: What was he on when he was cutting promos for UFC 3?
#13: Kimo Leopoldo Arrested for: Possession of a controlled substance, impersonating an officer
The famously undead UFC veteran was arrested in 2009 for hanging out in a Long Beach Police Department jumpsuit with drugs in his car. Leopoldo pleaded no-contest to stealing the police uniform, which earned him a mere 10 days of community service. However, what was first reported as meth turned out to be marijuana instead — still bad, but not lock ‘em up bad. After agreeing to a stint in rehab and three years’ probation, the misdemeanor charges were dropped.
#12: Vyacheslav Datsik Arrested for: Escaping from a Russian mental hospital by tearing through a chain link fence with his bare hands; he had been behind bars for three years for a previous string of armed robberies and death threats.
After a month on the lam, the nutty self-professed racist turned himself in to authorities in Norway, bringing along two loaded pistols for no good reason. The last we heard, he’d been granted temporary asylum in Norway after a Norwegian police psychiatrist argued that Datsik had been intentionally misdiagnosed as insane due to his undesirable political leanings. What the hell? Don’t these dudes have YouTube?
#11: Jeremy Jackson Arrested for: Forcible rape, kidnapping to commit another crime, first-degree residential burglary, assault with a firearm, dissuading a witness by force or threat, and criminal threats.
In 2008, the TUF 4 castmember was accused of breaking into an ex-girlfriend’s house and raping her at gunpoint. During the trial, the victim’s credibility came under fire, and it seemed that Jackson had a shot at going free. But Jackson changed his mind midway through and decided to plead guilty, going against the advice of his lawyer. According to one juror, Jackson “only pleaded guilty because he was depressed and wanted the trial to end.” He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
Continue to the next page for Krazy Horse’s gym assault, Junie Browning’s hospital freak-out and more…
Our host, Steve Cofield has a little fun cozying up to George Roop in his hotel bed and talks a do or die performance against Josh Grispi this weekend at the TUF 13 Finale as.
Our host, Steve Cofield has a little fun cozying up to George Roop in his hotel bed and talks a do or die performance against Josh Grispi this weekend at the TUF 13 Finale as his future in the UFC may depend on a win. Showing his lighter side, Roop tells shows us that the only chicks you can pick up in Vegas with a neck beard are the kind you gotta pay for. Watch the exclusive video below:
(If he only knew then what he knows about ‘gay hippy shit’ now…)
Well, War Machine has finally realized what most second graders already know- ‘reading is great’. To think, it only took him being exiled from the UFC, failing at a career in porn, and being sent to jail for felony assault to discover the joy of books.
Below you’ll learn that War doesn’t get down on all of that made-up organized religion crap, preferring to root his beliefs in more time-tested scientific certainties like interdimensional yogis and reincarnation. The good news? While he’s out zipping around through space and time, he totally doesn’t mind if you bone his wife.
(If he only knew then what he knows about ‘gay hippy shit’ now…)
Well, War Machine has finally realized what most second graders already know- ‘reading is great’. To think, it only took him being exiled from the UFC, failing at a career in porn, and being sent to jail for felony assault to discover the joy of books.
Below you’ll learn that War doesn’t get down on all of that made-up organized religion crap, preferring to root his beliefs in more time-tested scientific certainties like interdimensional yogis and reincarnation. The good news? While he’s out zipping around through space and time, he totally doesn’t mind if you bone his wife.
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May 18, 2011
Reading is great – I’ve been stumbling upon so many ideas and so much research that I never before had any understanding of. My views are changing so much and so fast. I’ve always truly believed that organized religion is bogus and you all know how I feel about politics. I really want to study mysticism in detail. I keep reading about all of these different levels of consciousness, deep meditation, out of body experiences, and reincarnation, and it is awesome. I believe 100% now that there is an “after life” and that we also reincarnate. Previously, I always HOPED an after life existed but never really KNEW. At times I used to think reincarnation may be possible but I’ve been coming across so much documented evidence, it’s just about undeniable. 1st thing that I thought of was how awkward it’d be to die and see all your diff. wives… and worst of all, all your wive’s husbands!? But then I started reading about documented near death experiences and Yogis who could travel to the afterlife realm, and both just always emphasized the importance of love and how every thing and every being are not “separate,” but all part of one huge “consciousness.” Sounds like some gay hippy shit right? Can WM turn into a hippy? LOL… I’d be a damn tough one, maybe a “warrior hippy?” LOL…
Anyway, then I got to reading about dreaming, and that “level of consciousness” and then lucid dreams, where you realize you’re dreaming and can do whatever you want. (I’ve actually done that several times). So, it made me think of jealousy. Like in “real life,” if your wife bones some dude you get jealous/pissed, and you’d probably get mad if you caught her masturbating to pornos of guys that look better/more endowed than you too. So if she had a lucid dream and consciously decides to fuck some dream hunk, then you found out, would you get mad? Jealous? I bet you would! Then I read a study in Curves Magazine that a large percentage of men and women admit to occasionally pretending their partner is someone else during sex. I guarantee that’ll piss you off! So the big question is: since people are going to pretend their partner is someone else, consciously fuck strangers in dreams when given the chance, masturbate to strangers, AND you are gonna have to “share” her with others in afterlife anyway, AND you love them truly, why not let them do it “for real?” If you love someone you want them happy in all ways right? And since it’s obvious that humans WANT to screw around, as long as they are “safe,” who cares? Thinking about it now, I’d get WAY more upset to know my wife is pretending I’m someone else when we are having sex, than if she just went and did it with some type of pre-discussed mutual understanding. Hmm… before now the idea of “swingers” never made ANY sense at all but thinking of it this way, if you love one another TRULY, it should be in EVERY aspect and you should never be jealous over something that causes them happiness/pleasure.
Okay so now I just stressed for like an hour on how I, or we, can save the Earth. I don’t know if there is really a way? I think we took a wrong turn somewhere along the way. But if we were to try, 1st thing is we gotta get rid of is oil/gasoline and that won’t happen due to the greed of the minority who profit from it and control world politics. Then I started thinking about recycling – I have ALWAYS thought of it & wanted to but I don’t even know how!? In the U.S. it’s HARD to recycle! I recall while in Japan, it was everywhere. Everywhere you went there were 2 trash cans or even 3, each for different types of waste. But if I got out tomorrow I wouldn’t know where to start, it’s something I’ll have to research & figure out where to bring the recyclables. Do government agencies recycle? I know this jail system doesn’t. SO MUCH stuff gets thrown out that should be recycled, the government is letting the world down in this regard. So although the crisis of the world is beyond my resolve, from now on I’m gonna do my part by 1) recycling, and 2) every day I’m gonna walk around the block where my gym is and where I live and pick up trash. Imagine if EVERYONE did that, every day? Our streets, parks, and beaches would be spotless and with only a tiny amount of work done by each separate individual! I know for a fact that I have kicked more cans than have picked up! It takes more energy/effort to kick a can than to just pick it up! Humans are blind! The next thing that popped into my head is how I think I’ll feel embarrassed the 1st few times I walk around with a bag to pick up trash… crazy! Why should someone feel embarrassed to clean up where they live? I dunno, but I know I will feel it. And I can picture now certain people in the area, “Hey have you seen that weirdo who walks around picking up trash every day? Is he crazy? We should start a neighborhood watch program.” LMAO! Tell me I’m wrong! The way we think is so fucked up.
I’ve never really done something without expecting something back in return. Like, there is always some sort of alterior motive. Well, this will be the 1st time I continually take my own time from the day, to just try and give something back to the world. Anyway, enough of that talk! Now I’m fired up! “Next Friday” is on TV. I hate weed and never smoke it, not since 8th grade, but this movie just makes you wanna blaze it, huh? LOL. This movie brings back so many memories. When I was 20, and up and moved to San Diego, to try out for The Lion’s Den, I was piss poor. All I had was my blanket, my TV, and a DVD player with one movie, Next Friday. I watched it every night for months! LOL. Those days were hard but sweet at the same time. I was so hungry for MMA, for making it. Man, I really feel that hunger again! So sick! My come-back is gonna be legendary. Watch and see!
