My problem with Forrest doing this stuff is that he’s not training. Other athletes in other sports are different. They have an off season. MMA does not (that’s actually one of the reasons why I like this sport).

Forrest fought a good fight, but it was a tight decision and I didn’t see it the same way as the judges. That’s fine. He’s the champ now, and I respect that. That doesn’t mean I think he deserved the title shot to begin with (I am picking him over Rashad, though).

I don’t care if fighters stay in the gym all the time. I don’t. I go out and party on weekends and so do plenty of great fighters. But if they want to start acting careers, then they shouldn’t try and fight at the same time.

Shaq shooting a commercial for Sprite or Nike or whatever is fine with me, and MMA fighter’s shooting commercials is fine to, but doing a movie is different.

My problem with Chuck showing up on Blade or Forrest doing an episode of SVU actually wasn’t that they weren’t in the gym, and I suppose I should clarify that. My problem with it was more that they are bad actors.

As far as acting and MMA stars, I think MMA fighters should stick to fighting unless they have legit acting skills. I haven’t seen Griffin in the SVU episode yet, but I know that Couture isn’t exactly award winning material. Everyone who becomes somewhat well known wants to jump into every possible industry whether it’s clothing, acting, or charity work, but it’s typically only done because a goofy marketing agent wants both of them to make more money.

Even when Griffin beat Shogun I read everything from prior injuries to the fight being paid off as to why their beloved Pride Shogun was being by an obviously inferior species TUF UFC fighter.

I wanted Jackson to win the fight actually because I like Jackson as a fighter but even saying that it was clear Griffin won that fight – period.

We are going to have to simply agree to disagree on this one. For the life of me I cannot at all see how filming something for TV is taboo in your eyes. Do you consider the TUF series on Spike TV in the same category as filming a movie? If so then stop the presses, because it is totally detrimental to their progress as fighters and they should all be ashamed of them selves. I mean how dare any human being to do multiple things in their lives, at one time even!!!! These fighters should have no social life, no aspirations of their own, and should be locked in the gym for life so that they can train and appease the MMA snobs and only be let out for fight night. Would that make you guys happy?

You know it’s a good thing Jordan, Woods, Jeeter, Bryant, Manning, and Shaq have never made tons of commercials, endorsements, full length feature films, numerous video games, countless charity events, appearances, magazine covers, quest cameos in films because if they did they would end up like poor Chuck Liddell and their careers would have never reached the pinnacle of stardom and athletic dominance. OK I’ll stop now with the sarcasm, but hell, even our own Forrest Griffin won the UFC LHW belt after appearing on the Law and Order series and was enjoying fame and popularity I’m sure he never saw coming.

There are few personalities in MMA as dynamic as Randy Couture and it was only a matter of time before things like this started to happen for him. As for Fedor; I mean can you really picture Fedor acting? I can’t because he just doesn’t have the personality for it from what I can tell. That is neither a good or bad thing it just simply “is”. These fighters are insanely popular and there is a lot of money to be made from and for them and their families and I guarantee the fighters will pick putting food on the table for their loved ones over trying to pander to a very small portion of MMA elitists that for some reason have christened themselves all knowing and seeing in the world of MMA.

You guys are going to have to open your eyes and realize that the world of MMA is evolving, for better or worse, but it is evolving. The argument that Chuck has been on a down turn because of participation in the media is unfounded and purely speculation and is a weak attempt to try and validate your argument. I see this all the time by people trying to validate their claims. Maybe Chuck lost because he wasn’t the better man those nights and there wasn’t any amount of living in the gym that would have changed that. However I don’t know that for sure and neither does anyone else. Chuck has lived the party lifestyle since before anyone knew his name and he will probably continue long after.

In closing, Randy is the consummate professional and I cannot see him staying out of the gym for any real length of time and that should make all of us happy.

I beleive the UFC has their very own Kimbo now. His name is Brock Lesnar.