Gina Carano –ESPN Magazine Cover.

by Rich on Oct.07, 2009, under MMA

As an MMA fan I enjoy watch­ing the sport get main­stream expo­sure and evolve. Some­times things come along that hin­der progress or push that progress forward.

Gina Carano aka ” The Face Of Women’s MMA” has helped break the gen­der bar­ri­ers of MMA and has added to the sports main­stream expo­sure. While I am a fan of Gina the fighter  it seems that Gina the super­star takes cen­ter stage nowa­days. Don’t get me wrong she is very attrac­tive which of course is a plus but at times it seems that her expo­sure is based on the phys­i­cal appear­ance and not her phys­i­cal prowess. Keep in mind this was all done to pro­mote a movie she is in directed by Steven Soder­bergh called Knockout.

This lit­tle blurb leads me to a pic posted by the crew at Film­drunk ( A great no b.s movie blog I may add) that is Gina’s cover on ESPN magazine.ESPN knew that as men we think with our dicks a large por­tion of the time so of course why not make a top­less Gina the cover.  Look­ing at this cover the 1st ratio­nal response is fuck that’s hot but in the end will this improve the state of women’s mma or will it hin­der it? As always your thoughts are appreciated.

By the way enjoy the cover you filthy ani­mals hahahaha.

ESPN Magazine Cover

ESPN Mag­a­zine Cover

 

Feature Photo

Fea­ture Photo

 

Full credit goes to the crew at film­drunk. You guys are the fuck­ing bomb.Filmdrunk pic­ture credit goes to MMA Fan­house

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9 Comments for this entry

  • Ancientwolf13
    October 7th, 2009 on 10:31 PM

    The Fea­ture photo should of been the Cover IMO. I like Carano the fighter and her sex appeal should remain sec­ondary when it comes to her career.  

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    • Mortis
      October 28th, 2009 on 1:23 PM

      I agree with Wolf. But also, a rea­son why she is “The Face of Women’s MMA” is because of her sex appeal.. which is why they show her like that.. it catches people’s eyes to pick up the mag­a­zine on the cover, show­ing her top­less. Although, like I said, I agree that her sex appeal should remain sec­ondary, I don’t see that hap­pen­ing when try­ing to pro­mote her career. To be com­pletely hon­est, I don’t think Gina’s heart is in MMA any­more, and I think she started to lose inter­est soon after her stint with Amer­i­can Glad­i­a­tors. Though, I do like her.. she looks good and is a very good fighter, and am hop­ing that she can do more to help the increase of pop­u­lar­ity of woman in MMA. I like watch­ing both men and women duke it out.  

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  • B0Bomb
    October 7th, 2009 on 11:10 PM

    For some rea­son, the cover shot of Gina Carano looks way too much like Makoto Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell. It’s still hot and all, but just has that look about it that makes it look way to Photoshoop’d.

    Hot­ter than the Ser­ena Williams nudie pic they have though. Ironic though, because Ser­ena is actu­ally way hot­ter in per­son than her photo makes her out to be.  

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  • Josh
    October 7th, 2009 on 11:13 PM

    good post. it’s a good topic but i think the response is going to be that most of your lis­ten­ers like see­ing her half naked (me included). women’s mma is not taken seri­ously by the pub­lic. even men’s mma is not accepted by the main­stream. it is still some­what on the fringe. women’s mma has a long way to go to make it, if it ever does.

    sode­bergh is a douche.  

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  • Jedihillis
    October 8th, 2009 on 12:05 AM

    Good blurb Akuma. I was actu­ally going to ask you about this on your next show (or when­ever I could get in touch with you.)

    There’s the old say­ing “there’s no such thing as bad press” and I think in this case, it applies. If it were JUST Gina then maybe I would say this is a bad thing. But due to the fact that MMA is still a rel­a­tively new sport, wom­ens MMA in par­tic­u­lar could use the expo­sure. I’m not sure most peo­ple even know that women’s MMA exists at this point. Now, if it became a reg­u­lar thing and Gina became the ‘Megan Fox’ of MMA, then I’d change my tune. As long as she can keep a steady career going, she’s going to attract fol­low­ers.  

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  • Andrea
    October 8th, 2009 on 9:54 AM

    Both Ancientwolf13 and Jedi­hillis make very good points.

    Now folks for a woman’s take — I for one am a big Carano fan, and I believe that while her (over) expo­sure imay be good for the sport, I think it is also detract­ing from what women fight­ers are going for — and that is equal rights to the sport in gen­eral. How come they didn’t put Cyborg on the cover? Obv. b/c peo­ple dont think she’s “hot” — but she still is the champ and deserves more expo­sure than #2 Carano right now — her body is just as ath­letic and cut as Gina’s. How can they get men to take their fights seri­ously if all you are think­ing about is how hot “the face of women’s MMA” looks in her sports bra and muay thai shorts?? Are you even look­ing at that sprawl or over­hand right?? Prob­a­bly not. You are look­ing at her ass in the air or her cleavage.…let’s be honest.

    I am all for the ESPN cov­ers show­cas­ing strong athletes…although I dont feel naked pics were nec­es­sary (per­sonal pref­er­ence), but that was the issue’s whole point. (Also show­cased on the cov­ers are Wil­i­iams, NASCAR guy Carl Edwards, the Magic’s Dwight Howard, Min­nesota Vikings’ Adrian Peter­son and Sarah Rein­ert­sen, who is is the first woman amputee to have com­peted in the Iron­man Triathlon, so it’s not just women.)

    I seri­ously think Gina needs to stop fame­whor­ing her­self and worry about going back to the draw­ing board — she needs get back to where she was when her fights were awesome…not like the last two where she appeared lost. A. Glad­i­a­tors, movies, photo shoots, etc. all need to take a back­seat for a while if she really wants to help grow the sport — show why women’s MMA is awe­some by putting on great fights where peo­ple will HAVE to take notice.  

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  • Andrea
    October 8th, 2009 on 10:35 AM

    here’s an inter­est­ing read…http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johnny-benjamin/gina-caranos-espn-cover-i_b_311889.html  

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  • Josh
    October 8th, 2009 on 4:16 PM

    I would like to add to my ear­lier post. First, Sode­bergh is still a douche. Sec­ond, it is pretty clear to me that women’s MMA is never going to be pop­u­lar in the same way that women’s box­ing and the wnba never caught on. MMA is a phys­i­cal sport and the men who watch it are look­ing to see peo­ple get knocked out with force. that strength is miss­ing from all of these sports. peo­ple watch the nba to see all of the crazy high fly­ing dunks. that doesn’t hap­pen in women’s bas­ket­ball. a woman get­ting knocked out in a box­ing or mma match doesn’t have the same force as a guy get­ting knocked out. for those of you who think peo­ple watch these sports for the sci­ence of it, then why was mike tyson so popular?

    Gina Carano should con­tinue to do what is good for her, which is show­ing off her t&a. sex sells and she could make a lot of money for her­self with her fame. why should she care about the sport? she didn’t invent women’s mma. she just moved over to it to get more expo­sure for her­self. do you think dan­ica patrick cares about rac­ing to the point of putting it above mak­ing money? in 2009, if you are a hot chick and end up gain­ing some sort of fame, you can take advan­tage of it and make a lot of money with­out really show­ing a true skill (paris hilton, kim kar­dashian, the rest of the kar­dashi­ans, jes­sica simp­son, brit­ney spears, jes­sica beil, jes­sica alba, megan fox, etc). yes, a cou­ple of those women have mar­ginal tal­ents, and gina can fight, but she’s not babe ruth, muham­mad ali, or some­thing like that.

    In sum­ma­tion, gina needs to keep doing what she’s doing, not worry about build­ing the sport, and earn the money off of her fame so she doesn’t have to worry about any­thing when her looks fade.  

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  • Elisabeth
    October 12th, 2009 on 11:40 PM

    I think Gina has come a long way. I think she has her Dad’s help through­out her career to achieve cer­tain roles she has been able to appear in. She has a beau­ti­ful face, she loves MMA and that’s why she fights in the indus­try. I can’t imag­ine hold­ing all the weight of being the “Face of female MMA”. She is explor­ing her options in life like any­one else would do given the oppor­tu­nity. I do think the pub­lic and press has given her that “over-rated” atten­tion. Gina being on the cover of ESPN in that sexy but tough look is all pub­lic­ity for her­self and for this new movie. I per­son­ally think there’s noth­ing wrong with it. Sure I get sick of just hear­ing about her and not all the other great female fight­ers that work just as hard and deserve more atten­tion. I say hire a great PR agent and get your name more out there! I think sexy, con­fi­dence, and strong all together makes an awe­some woman.  

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