“Haymaker” – The Poster and Trailer are Here!
I don’t care for the Haymaker poster above, but the trailer below was interesting. I wouldn’t run out to see it, but wouldn’t (at least right away) turn the channel if it was on tv.
Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
I don’t care for the Haymaker poster above, but the trailer below was interesting. I wouldn’t run out to see it, but wouldn’t (at least right away) turn the channel if it was on tv.
Below is the trailer to UFC1: Origins. I am a huge fan of UFC and mixed martial arts. Truth be told, when the UFC first began, I wouldn’t tune in. There were no weight classes and few if any rules. I loved the idea of the top talent of each style (boxing, karate, wresting, jujitsu, etc.) facing each other in contest but to me it wasn’t a true sport yet…
Once there were rules and weight classes in place I was on board. I watch UFC and Bellator regularly. The interesting thing that has happened over the last 20 years or so is that the best fighters no longer have just one style. They have grown up to be true mixed-martial artists!
From the producers of THE LAST DANCE. Tracing the roots of the pro-MMA league back to its tumultuous first event in 1993, UFC1: ORIGINS explores the improbable tale of how Rorion Gracie, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist, and Art Davie, once a used car salesman, teamed with Bob Meyrowitz’s pay-per-view company SEG to mount UFC 1 in Denver and launch a sports phenomenon.
Bruce Lee is getting the Criterion Collection treatment and his fans are going to love it. The seven-disc Blu-ray box set will contain Lee’s greatest hits (The Big Boss / Fist of Fury / The Way of the Dragon / Enter the Dragon / Game of Death) and will be chock full of special features, including alternate versions of the films, interviews, documentaries and much more!
Here’s some of what the seven disc Special Edition will feature…
Bruce Lee’s Greatest Hits: The Criterion Collection will be available July 14, 2020.
So Justin Bieber issued a challenge to fight Tom Cruise in a cage match.
Any way you look at this…
If Bieber did it for free publicity…
If Bieber thinks Tom Cruise is a real fighter because of his movies…
If Bieber believes he is a tough guy and wants to prove it by fighting Tom Cruise, an actor who is more than twice as old as Bieber…
…it is just plain stupid.
If Bieber wants to prove he’s a tough guy, then he should challenge someone known for fighting like say, Nate Diaz. Nate would probably show up at any location for free if Bieber called him out.
How could this get any dumber?
Oh, boy. I shouldn’t have asked.
So Conor McGregor, the former UFC Champion and now also a sports and entertainment promoter has offered to promote/host the Bieber vs Cruise fight should it ever happen. If it wasn’t for the fact that McGregor is already known for saying outrageous things and looking for free publicity where he can get it, I’d say he should know better than to get involved in something so stupid.
Well, at least McGregor didn’t go full on stupid and challenge an actor to a cage fight.
Are you kidding me?
So McGregor has upped the ante and challenged actor Mark Walhberg to a cage fight? For my thoughts on this please refer back above to “Any way you look at this…” and substitute McGregor’s name for Bieber and Wahlberg’s name for Cruise.
I also offer the same suggestion as to an alternate fight — McGregor should challenge Nate Diaz to a cage match. They’ve already fought twice with each man winning once, so a third time would make sense.
Hey! I’ve got an idea: How about Bieber and McGregor fight each other? McGregor could promote it and each of them would get what they want. Bieber would get a chance to prove he’s a tough guy. McGregor would get to fight a celebrity.
The reality is of course that Bieber would get knocked out. McGregor would be ridiculed for taking the fight and hardly anyone would tune in.
You know I started by saying that Bieber challenging Cruise was stupid. I still think it is, but I will say this, Bieber is sure getting the publicity. The news of his challenge is blowing up everywhere. Heck, in all my years of blogging, I’ve never mentioned Bieber even once. Yet today I’ve devoted a long post to him.
Well played, Justin Bieber. Well played.
Yesterday ten John Wick 3 – Parabellum character posters dropped. Today we get a new JW3-P poster featuring John Wick!
Source: IMPAwards.
Here’s the trailer for Mask. Charles Mask Lewis was the visionary behind Tapout. From all accounts, Lewis was a generous kind human being who died way too young.
Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson died yesterday from heart complications at the age of 42.
Ferguson rose to fame after a series of videos showing him participating in one-on-one backyard brawls for money became an internet sensation. Because of the popularity of the fight videos and his charismatic personality, Ferguson was able to become a professional MMA fighter (for EliteXC, UFC and Bellator), an undefeated professional boxer and even a movie actor. People tuned in to see Ferguson fight and his bouts were always entertaining.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson’s family, friends and fans.
Jon Jones, who many consider to be the best pound-for-pound MMA fighter of all time, has a real dislike for the current champion, Daniel Cormier.
Jones beat Cormier when they fought, but Cormier won the title when Jones was relieved of it after some bad personal decisions resulting from drugs and run-ins with the police.
Cormier and Jones will fight for the title on April 23rd.
In an effort to get under Cormier’s skin, Jones posted the photo above. Not to be outdone, Cormier responded with the one below.
In this contest, Cormier wins by decision.
Source: MMA Fighting.
Below is a short but extremely rare video of Bruce Lee sparring.
Growing up I was a fight fan. That meant I was a boxing fan.
MMA as we know it today was decades away. It was a time of tough guys. Marciano – Liston – Ali – Frazier – Norton – Foreman. Boxing appeared regularly on television for free. ESPN had a weekly boxing show. NBC – CBS and ABC regularly aired live boxing cards.
Later boxing became an event sport with all eyes on pay-per-view Super Fights. Ali vs Frazier. Hagler vs Hearns. Duran vs Leonard. The top tier of boxers became celebrities and were given mega paydays. Of course the vast majority of boxers made little and often retired battered and poor. There were fewer and fewer big name fighters and the popularity of boxing began to wane.
Then 20 years ago the UFC was born. Although the company struggled at first the popularity of MMA, specifically the UFC took off. The UFC was on tv with a weekly series and regular pay-per-views. Name fighters began to emerge. Fighters that fans loved or hated but would tune in or equally importantly pay to see fight. Many thought the rise of the UFC would be the death of boxing.
Boxing fans had heard that before. So had the folks in the video below. Check it out and we’ll continue after you watch.
The Fighters looks interesting. Will it bring back boxing? Who knows? It could be the start though. And the kicker is Dana “UFC President” White is one of the creative forces behind the show.
I know I’ll tune. I’m a fight fan.
Source: MMA Fighting.
Diego Sanchez is a great fighter. Sanchez was/is one of my all-time favorites, but fast money and a partying lifestyle caught up to him.
It wasn’t until Sanchez hit rock-bottom that he got his head together.
And now he is on the comeback trail.
And a unanimous decision thanks to Cage Potato for the link!
UFC put on a great night of free fights on FOX SPORTS 1 last night. Let’s take a look at the main card and my predictions…
Final Thoughts:
UFC has a live card on FOX SPORTS 1 tonight starting at 6pm with the prelims and 8pm with the main card. Let’s take a look at the main card and my predictions…
UFC 160 was last night. Here are the results and some thoughts…
Final Thoughts:
UFC 160 is tonight on pay-per-view. That means it is time for predictions…