Posts Tagged ‘UFC’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 gay porn for straight guys?

Boxer Bernard Hopkins is tired of his sport being compared to MMA, mostly because the whole gay porn thing. Oh yeah, that… Everybody is different. I don’t want to watch two grown men wrestling with panties on. I’m from the hood, we don’t play that. To me, I’m not buying a ticket to watch two [...]

Dana White: UFC would embrace gay fighter

Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, says that fighters and fans of the sport would embrace an openly gay fighter. This is the same Dana White who apologized recently for using an anti-gay slur. In an interview (video below) following the May 23 UFC card, White was asked about how an openly [...]

Another hollow apology…from Dana White

Add the apology from UFC’s Dana White to the immeasurably long list of non-apologies (he used the ‘faggot’ in a rant earlier this week). While a simple “I got it wrong, I’m sorry” would have sufficed, White decided to go the “You don’t understand me and you got it wrong” route. GLAAD seems to have [...]

UFC’s Dana White to apologize for anti-gay slurs

Dana White, the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts organization, will apologize for an anti-gay slur he unleashed in a video while pissed off at a journalist. Ted Rybka of GLAAD’s sports arm spoke to White and just posted this: I just spoke with UFC President Dana White. White expressed remorse for [...]

Kanyon rips Lesnar’s “dumb luck”

Openly gay former pro wrestler Chris Kanyon (right) has become well-known after his career for 1) being gay and 2) for not pulling punches when it comes to talkin about pro wrestling. The latest in Kanyon’s sites: Brock Lesnar, who a couple weeks ago won a big fight on UFC. On Myspace, Kanyon rips into [...]