MMA and comic books go hand in hand?

[TonyStarkFan]

I know that there are some MMA fans on the boards, so I thought I'd post this.I came across this interesting article on MMA Weekly talking about G4's Blair Butler discussing mixed martial arts and comic books. I have seen her show before and she knows her stuff. I have interviewed a few fighters in the past and even though they are tough guys, and gals, they are fanboys and fangirls at heart. Good stuff!

 

Comic Books and MMA don't mix? Link to article

 

If anyone is coming out to Las Vegas on Memorial Day weekend, let me know. I will be covering UFC 130 as the resident Las Vegas MMA writer for Examiner.com. But I do know of a lot of special events happening that weekend and can let you know about all of them.

[porky]

as j.p. said in grandma's boy: "how did he see me?!"

[Not*Sure*]

I love MMA so comicfangirls like or dislike it generally..because I loves MMA and funny books..

[shadroch]

I get in on the 29th. I'll be downtown until Tuesday, when I head out to Laughlin.

 

[ashrael]

Been a comic fan since the late 1970's and a NHB (later developing into "MMA") fan since 1994

 

After MMA started to explode, I started to see that many MMA fans reminded me of the stereotypical "geek fanboy" you see in the comic world. It was a shocking realization, to say the least.

 

Well, I was only born in the late 1970s, but I was comic fan in the mid 1980s and I was a huge MMA fan starting in 1994 also when I rented UFC 2 on VHS

 

I guess in both we want (near) super-human heroes to cheer for.

[Theagenes]

Comics and MMA go way back to WWII. American boxing vs. Japanese jiu-jitsu:

 

 

[Comic Book Guy]

I love MMA and Comics!

 

Been training MMA here in Cali longer than I have been collecting. I think a lot of MMA fighters are comic book fans, I mean Anderson Silva is named "The Spider" because he grew up loving Spider-Man! And I met UFC fighter Nate Quarry just walking around at SDCC...

 

 

Anyone watch The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani on mmafighting.com?

 

It's a great show with new guests each week and is actually about to start soon (10am PST)

 

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/05/09/the-mma-hour-with-mark-hominick-frank-trigg-mike-dolce/

 

A few pics to share...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tsimanga]

 

 

MMA rules. I like it more than comics. I used to write articles for Grappling Magazine and have interviewed many fighters. Used to travel around the country when they held the UFC events in backwoods casinos with 500 people in the crowd and a front row seat cost me 80 bucks. The so-called dark days of the UFC were to me the good ole' days. I've been a little bummed lately as all my favorite fighters have been losing... Fedor, Penn, Randy, Vitor, Iceman retired etc...

 

 

[AGGIEZ]

 

 

[ashrael]

Time for NeatStuff to show up with his Sakuraba avatar

 

Gina

[pickycollector]

I love MMA and Comics!

 

+1

[Theagenes]

It's really hard to believe it's been nearly 18 years since the first UFC. UFC 2 was the first one I saw on VHS, and UFC 4 was the first one I saw on ppv. I was a real junkie in those early days. Trading bootleg tapes was the only the way to see the smaller shows and stuff from Japan and Brazil. In 1996 I started the first website dedicated to tracking fighter's records - FightStat. This was long before sherdog's fightfinder. My username "theagenes" is a reference to the ancient greek boxer and pankratiast and has been my online handle since the old email Fighting List in the mid-90s. It's been amazing to witness the growth of the sport over the last two decades - I'm not sure there has ever been anything like it.

[sd2416]

 

 

Is that Gina Carano?

[Chespirito]

 

 

Is that Gina Carano?

I'd hit it!!! :headbang:

[Not*Sure*]

Ches What the heck happen to your avatar..

 

did some bozo complain

[Chespirito]

Yes

I guess I went to the extreme...

[Tsimanga]

Trading bootleg tapes was the only the way to see the smaller shows and stuff from Japan and Brazil.

 

- I used to have large egg boxes full of obscure vhs fight tapes. Actually I still have some of them- all my Pancrase 1993-1996 shows, some rare fights with Lion's Den fighters, old Saku fights (Rene Rooze, Kimo, etc), all kinds of goodies.

 

... sounds like me too. I still have lots of old Shooto and Pancrase tapes somewhere. I actually have a Pancrase tattoo I liked it so much. Funaki was my all-time favorite fighter.

[Tsimanga]

I know that there are some MMA fans on the boards, so I thought I'd post this.I came across this interesting article on MMA Weekly talking about G4's Blair Butler discussing mixed martial arts and comic books. I have seen her show before and she knows her stuff. I have interviewed a few fighters in the past and even though they are tough guys, and gals, they are fanboys and fangirls at heart. Good stuff!

 

Comic Books and MMA don't mix? Link to article

 

If anyone is coming out to Las Vegas on Memorial Day weekend, let me know. I will be covering UFC 130 as the resident Las Vegas MMA writer for Examiner.com. But I do know of a lot of special events happening that weekend and can let you know about all of them.

 

Sucks that the main event just got canceled. I'll still watch it, but the card is pretty weak now.

[Comic Book Guy]

 

 

Is that Gina Carano?

 

 

Yeah, That's Gina <3

 

She is a super cool chick

[TonyStarkFan]

I love MMA and Comics!

 

Been training MMA here in Cali longer than I have been collecting. I think a lot of MMA fighters are comic book fans, I mean Anderson Silva is named "The Spider" because he grew up loving Spider-Man! And I met UFC fighter Nate Quarry just walking around at SDCC...

 

 

Anyone watch The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani on mmafighting.com?

 

It's a great show with new guests each week and is actually about to start soon (10am PST)

 

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/05/09/the-mma-hour-with-mark-hominick-frank-trigg-mike-dolce/

 

A few pics to share...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love the photos. Nice one with Gina Carano. I would love to interview her, but the wife isn't hot on the idea. I kinda have a thing for Gina.