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The Ultimate Fighter Season 11– Meet The Cast
by Rich on Mar.10, 2010, under MMA, UFC News & Rants
March is a great month for UFC fans, with a ton of great events leading the way towards this year’s installment of The Ultimate Fighter. With the UFC on Versus on March 21st, followed by UFC 111 - St. Pierre vs. Hardy on March 27th, and of course, Ultimate Fight Night 21 on March 31 ‚the UFC has all the bases covered in terms of promotion and great events leading towards TUF’s Season 11 premiere — also on March 31st.
This season, a new format will debut that plans to freshen up and reinvigorate the TUF program. With coaches Tito Ortiz & Chuck Liddell, you can expect great coaching, great fights and bad blood between these two that will make this another must-see season.
It’s a great time to be a UFC fan. Here are this season’s competitors:
The Ultimate Fighter premieres on SpikeTV on Wednesday, March 31st — check your local listings for showtimes.
1st Impression: Iron Man 2 — Second Trailer
by Rich on Mar.10, 2010, under Movie Trailers, Movies
Iron Man 2 is due in theatres in two months, and this new trailer makes me appreciate the work that Jon Favreau has put into this franchise. Of course the big sell is the onscreen debut of War Machine — now played by Don Cheadle, who replaced Terrence Howard. We can’t forget the Black Widow as well, who looks like she will make things interesting for Mr. Stark.
Mickey Rourke and the always awesome Sam Rockwell are your villains from what we’ve seen so far. Rourke will play Whiplash (who may or may not also become Crimson Dynamo) and Rockwell is criminal mastermind and businessman Justin Hammer.
Iron Man 2 looks like it has the right spark to start the new summer blockbuster season and quite frankly I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Super Street Fighter 4– Meet Hakan
by Rich on Mar.10, 2010, under Video Game Trailers, Video Games
For months now I have been covering the newest characters is SSF4 and I had heard that one more remained to be revealed. It turns out that this new challenger was going to be completely new. Hakan appears to have a very slippery and oily appearance which augment his attacks and give him a unique fighting style which appears to be similar to Hugo with a bit Zangief and Alex as well . My 1st impression was that he looked kind of hokey but after watching some gameplay footage I feel he may prove dangerous in the right hands just like Rufus.The battle begins anew in April!!!
Enjoy!
Image Credit:Geek Week
My Take Radio-Episode 33-Recap
by Rich on Mar.05, 2010, under My Take Radio Episodes
I started this weeks episode pretty tame but my composure slowly unraveled over the course of the broadcast. Here are some of the things that were discussed
MMA
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UFC on VS was discussed
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UFC PPV events
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Andrei Arlovski returns to Strikeforce
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Strikeforce on CBS
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James Toney signs with the UFC and will trained for MMA by Juanito Ibarra.
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UFC will run an event on 4/17 to compete against Strikeforce
Wrestling
- Umaga’s cause of death revealed
- Awesome Kong’s TNA status
- Upcoming RAW guest hosts
- Recently released WWE superstars
- Impact becomes the “Whole Dam Show” on 3/8
Video Games
- Heavy Rain is # 1 in the UK
- Activision vs Infinity Ward
- Splinter Cell Conviction Xbox 360 bundle
- Sony acquires Media Molecule
- Halo Reach — Multiplayer
Movies
- DC movie plans
- Max Steel becomes Stretch Armstrong
- Tron:Legacy a trilogy?
- My thoughts on Zoolander 2 & the Arthur remake starring Russell Brand
- Transformer movie news
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter– WTF!!!
- Gilligan’s Island : The Movie
- Iron Man 2 on Kimmel after the awards on 3/7
- Doogie Howser and the smurfs ?
- Green Lantern in 3D
- Marco Polo the movie?
Special thanks to Don Anderson from Tumblin with Tumbleweed for his awesome call with the late Dudley Moore
This weeks plugs
- GirlGamer.com
- MMAValor.com
- MMAHotstuff.com
- Darksiders.com
- Haydndalton.wordpress.com
- VGNRadio.com
- ClevelandSportsRadio.net
- Bornstubbornradio.com
- OCRemix.org
- MMAJunkie.com
- 411mania.com
- Filmdrunk.com
Next week : Darksiders returns to MTR!
My Take On: MMA & Mainstream Media
by Rich on Feb.27, 2010, under MMA, Strikeforce, UFC News & Rants
It feels like only yesterday when I watched my first MMA event - which happened to be the original UFC Super Fight. After watching, I realized that this sport could only be on PPV due to the sheer amount of violence it presented. Since those days, the UFC obviously has come a long way — not only in terms of fights but also in allowing MMA to transcend the moniker of a “barbaric” sporting event. While the sport has numerous organizations and tons great fighters, the success of sport has always hinged on fans and it crossing over into the mainstream. The UFC slowly started getting real sponsors like Harley Davidson, Burger King and a host of others. MMA was slowly gaining acceptance and companies were embracing the promotion the sport got their products. Companies like BSN, which aren’t usually widely heard of, are a perfect example of MMA helping them become known in mainstream media. Now when I enter a GNC and see a Syntha-6 bottle it has a little UFC logo next to it. It is things like this that help move the sport forward.
Nowadays, you open a magazine and you see MMA fighters (both male and female) endorsing products. Whether it’s t-shirts, supplements or apparel, Mixed Martial Arts has become a viable marketing machine that captures the key demographics for a lot of products across the board.
Let’s not forget that MMA is now seen on broadcast TV, thanks in part to the now defunct EliteXC, as well as StrikeForce, which broadcasts on CBS. In addition to that, companies like Fathead are now acknowledging MMA fighters as “mainstream” athletes with “mainstream” appeal. You can now hear names like GSP, Fedor, Gina Carano, Chuck Liddell and many others mentioned in the same sentences as athletes like Michael Phelps, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Dwayne Wade. This shows that combat sports other than boxing have now assimilated themselves into today’s sports coverage and beyond.
Here are just a few examples of how MMA is now part of mainstream media.

