Jessica Aguilar made her professional MMA debut in 2006, but it’s just now that she’s talking about her sexual orientation publicly. The fighter told Sports Illustrated‘s Loretta Hunt that she is bisexual and lives with her girlfriend. Unfortunately, she faces less-than-perfect acceptance from her mother. She’s also reached some comfort in sharing her bisexual orientation, [...]
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Eye on sports: Our favorite photos of the week
We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include Canada Cup diving, the NCAA men’s volleyball championships, world rowing, mixed martial arts, NFL minicamps and the funky hair of Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals. Click image for larger, full-sized view (and that image for the largest view): Share on [...]
Anheuser-Busch tells UFC to stop the anti-gay and sexist language
Anheuser-Busch has told Ultimate Fighting Championship to curtail the sexist and homophobic language of their fighters, or they will take action. Budweiser’s parent company is a huge sponsor of UFC. They told Advertising Age in a statement: “We’ve communicated to the UFC our displeasure with certain remarks made by some of its fighters, and they have [...]
MMA figher Adam Von Rothfelder models Baskit underwear
/Baskit/ wear and photographer Thomas Synnamon have teamed up to bring a new ad campaign featuring the beautiful body of former MMA fighter Adam Von Rothfelder (three photos below). A little on Von Rothfelder: Von Rothfelder moved to California in 2009 to pursue his professional career further. He trained with the Body Shop and Antonio [...]
Former gay porn actor Dakota Cochrane debuts on ‘The Ultimate Fighter 15,’ loses
Update: Cochrane lost a split decision in the round of 32 during a live telecast March 9, so he won’t be on the show any more. Dakota Cochrane, who has talked openly about his gay porn past, will debut Friday on the opening episode of the reality series “The Ultimate Fighter 15.” The show airs [...]
Dakota Cochrane talks about his gay porn past on Sean Cody
MMA fighter Dakota Cochrane talked openly Tuesday about his past as a gay-porn actor. Cochrane, who has two kids and a fiancee, said his porn days were while he was a track star at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. He said he earned around $80k from taping the porn videos. From MMAFighting.com: “I think it’s a [...]
Dakota Cochrane of Ultimate Fighter 15 did gay porn for Sean Cody
MMA fighter Dakota Cochrane, who will be featured in The Ultimate Fighter 15 on TV March 9, has been identified as gay porn actor “Danny” from the popular porn site, Sean Cody (that’s him on the right in the photo, taken from seancody.com where there are lots of much more revealing photos). We’ve long said [...]
Daniel Puder’s ‘My Life My Power’ organization fights bullying in schools
While Ben Cohen’s Stand Up foundation to fight bullying has gotten lots of attention in the gay community, MMA fighter Daniel Puder has created a pretty fantastic anti-bullying and self-worth program himself. My Life My Power is a school-based program that recruits high school students who carry the positive messages to younger students in the [...]
Dana White says he wishes gay UFC fighters would come out
Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, both apologized (again) for his past homophobic comments while encouraging gay fighters to come out. “I’ll tell you right now, if there was a gay fighter in UFC, I wish he would come out,” he said. “I could care less if there’s a gay fighter in the [...]
Michael Bisping is the latest UFC fighter to make ‘gay’ comments
I guess when you’re straight and you spend most of your time with half-naked men you might feel the need to distance yourself as far as you can from the gays. It seems to be the case for many UFC fighters, and Michael Bisping is the latest (Bisping earlier this year called a fighter a [...]
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira of the UFC says he doesn’t want to train with a gay fighter
UFC fighter and former Interim Heavyweight Champion Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira told UOL Esporte he would not train with a gay fighter. Bloody Elbow has the translation of the 35-year-old Brazilian born fighter’s interview: I have no prejudice against the gays, but I wouldn’t train with someone who’s gay. I have no malice, I don’t take our [...]
UFC freaks out after fighter wears a Speedo
The UFC has banned its fighters from wearing Speedos into the ring after Dennis Hallman wore one in UFC 133 Saturday night. In fact, UFC President Dana White gave a $70,000 bonus to Hallman’s opponent Brian Ebersole for knocking him out in the first round and thereby sparing the fainthearted babies who apparently watch the [...]
Jake Shields to fight Georges St. Pierre for UFC title, so let the gay rumors begin
Jake Shields is fighting Georges St. Pierre on Saturday for St. Pierre’s UFC welterweight title. This prompted my friend DJ to send me a note saying mixed martial arts fans are always questioning the sexual orientation of both fighters. DJ is right. Start typing in “Jake Shields” into Google and the second recommendation is “Jake [...]
UFC fighter Michael Bisping calls opponent ‘faggot,’ then spits on his corner after fight
Huge tip of the hat to our friend Michael David Smith for calling out fighter Michael Bisping and the UFC after Bisping called opponent Jorge Rivera a “faggot mother——” during a promotional video. For good measure, after delivering an illegal knee to Rivera in their fight he won, Bisping then spit in Rivera’s corner. That’s [...]
MMA fighter Daniel Puder takes on bullies
Daniel Puder stands 6-3, weighs 235 pounds and has an 8-0 record as an MMA fighter (he was also a pro wrestler). It’s hard to believe, though, that he was once bullied. He is now reaching out and offering help to victims of bullies. As he told TMZ: Anybody that’s getting bullied in the whole [...]
MMA fighter hopes to kill ‘fag’ opponent in ring
Mixed martial artist Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone (right) hates his upcoming opponent Jamie Varner so much that ke called him a “fag” and said he hopes he literally kills him during their Sept. 30 WEC fight. He said this on Tapout radio: “This is real, this isn’t like the WEC trying to get us to you [...]
Rampage Jackson explains ‘so gay’ comment
Former UFC champ Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, aka the new Mr. T, made a comment last week that acting is “gay.” People got outraged and demanded an apology. Jackson has responded, but sans apology. Instead, he offers some insight into who he is; And despite the “insensitive” remark, I think I sort of buy his response. [...]
MMA fighter: Gay or playing gay on TV?
Nick Ring, a competitor on the current season of “The Ultimate Fighter” is either openly gay or so comfortable with his sexuality that he doesn’t care if everyone else thinks he gay. After all, no other MMA fighter, when asked if he was gay, would answer, “No, but my boyfriend is.” Nor would they have [...]
Weekend Hot Jocks: Two MMA fighters
We got an email this week from some folks representing an MMA event this weekend called Total Fighting Alliance, streaming live on SwaggMedia.com Saturday, April 17, 7pmPT. We told them we’d promote the event if they gave us some pics for our Weekend Hot Jock: They were happy too! See, shirtless straight guys care less [...]
The debate: How gay is MMA?
It has been interesting to see mainstream writers wrestle with whether mixed martial arts is “gay.” The Daily Beast has had two somewhat-opposing columns on the subject in the past two weeks, the most recent by Sam Sheridan, himself a fighter. Writes Sheridan: Having fought and trained a little, let me assure you that there [...]