Fresh from his loss to Randy Couture at UFC 109, here is Mark “The Hammer” Coleman. Owner of the most awesome championship belt in MMA history, the Pride Grand Prix 2000 Championship belt, which was valued at more than the prize money for winning the entire tournament! Not sure if it is the end for Mark or not after his performance against Couture, but at least we got to finally see these two legendary wrestlers duke it out.
UFC Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar has been revealed as the fighter to grace the cover of the second installment of THQ’s UFC Undisputed series. The top-selling Platinum/ Greatest hit game is set for a May 25 release, which happens to coincide with the predicted Summer return of Lesnar. UFC 114 is May 29, so there is a strong possibility Brock could return around then to help push game sales. The next UFC Fan Expo also happens to be that same weekend. How convenient.
Not much has been revealed other than this trailer from the Spike Video Game Awards which showed some new mechanics and a new face, but otherwise the game appears identical as far as appearance. As we come closer to this release date, EA MMA will also be on the way. So if you can only buy one, which will it be?
The Fight Nerd returns with 10 more fights you have never seen before (or maybe you have, but that makes you as big of a loser as me)! We keep the countdown going but this time with more of the big names you might know from the UFC and Strikeforce, so see how many of these fights you’ve seen and how many you never even knew about.
No, my English is not so poor as to make a hideous sentence like that. THQ has announced today that UFC 2009 Undisputed has reached “Platinum Hits” status for Xbox 360, and “Greatest Hits” status for PlayStation 3. This means two things — THQ sold a lot of these games, and it’s now available for $29.99.
Dana White added the following statement in regards to this in a press release:
“We are excited that so many fans around the world have helped us achieve these impressive milestones in our debut year.”
UFC Undisputed 2010 hits PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on May 25 and will feature some old faces and some new faces, here is the trailer for those who have yet to see it. Has everybody here got the game already or is this what you penny savers have been waiting for?
Jamie Varner talks with The Fight Nerd about what went wrong in his WEC lightweight title unification match against Benson Henderson, his comments after the fight, what he thinks about his fans, if there is a difference between UFC and WEC fighters and some info about his brand new school in New York.
I consider myself a collector of instructional DVD’s, and there are plenty out there to get my grubby paws on. Not all of them are too good though, and sometimes the bad ones are the most entertaining. Case in point, Eddie Quinn’s “Approach.” Quinn is a practitioner of the Filipino martial arts and to be fair, he knows what he is talking about, he is just very… enthusiastic about it, so much so that he sounds like the British guy in those Magic Bullet informercials. I guess he can be though, since he does have his own theme song as you see in the video above.
Maybe I should not judge his abilities, why don’t you do that for me by checking out some more of this madness after the jump, including the trailer for his seventh volume where he beats up something that looks like a bad movie robot and then six guys at once!
Wave 2 of the UFC action figures, made by Jakks Pacific, are on the way to you, and they include three new faces – Mike Thomas Brown, Nate Marquardt and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. The remaining five characters in this line are reissues of Lesnar, Evans, Gracie, Liddell, and Forrest Griffin. No changes appear to have been made to them in any way but if you missed them the first time, here is your second chance. If you want to see a better look at some of these figures, have a look at our video review of Wave 1 and see if you like them.
Wave 3 was also announced, which is set for release in early April, includes Chuck Liddell, BJ Penn, Jon Fitch, Mark Coleman, Shogun Rua, Karo Parisyan and Thiago Silva. That makes seven figures, so there is one mystery figure yet to be revealed. Chuck happens to be another repaint we can assume (since he never really changed his shorts) but the Fitch was rumored to have a removable afro according to an interview we did with Jakks Pacific rep Enrique Ruvalcaba earlier.
Electronic Arts has announced Bobby Lashley as one of the next batch of fighters revealed for their upcoming MMA video game. Conveniently, it happens to be days before Lashley takes on Wes Sims in Strikeforce. Just kind of works out that way. “The Boss” looks pretty good in the screencaps, although the betters shots are where he is pictured with Jeff Monson (which you can see after the jump).
Also announced today were Nick Diaz, Marius Zaromskis, Joe Riggs and Melvin Manhoef, who are joining the ranks of Randy Couture, Fedor Emelianeko, Jay Hieron and many others who were previously announced for the nextgen video game.
More pics of Lashley after the jump!
President of Strikeforce Scott Coker talks about the hits and misses of 2009 with The Fight Nerd! We discuss the best moments of 09 and the best fight of the year in Strikeforce, why he was opposed to Herschel Walker being in Strikeforce initially, why other athletes are coming into MMA and what is going on with Jay Hieron’s welterweight title shot and Alistair Overeem’s two-year long hostage situation with the heavyweight title.
NOTE: Coker had a bit of a cold so he if he sound’s a little sniffley, that is why.
Canadian based MMA toy company, Round 5, has announced their next wave of UFC figures, which will include a few familiar faces to the line and some new ones. BJ Penn, Michael Bisping, Forrest Griffin and Kimbo Slice round out the newcomers to the line up and Randy Couture and Tito Ortiz, who were part of the debut line a few years back, return with all new sculpts.
These figures should be available sometime in Spring of this year, and coming out in stores next month will be the first wave of the UFC figures, which includes Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell, George “Rush” St. Pierre, “Suga” Rashad Evans, Kenny “KenFlo” Florian, Clay “The Carpenter” Guida and Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida.
Read the official press release after the jump!
