UFC champions Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones will bring excitement and energy to your Pop! Collection. UFC Pop! Daniel Cormier is a former UFC two-division world champion titleholder and comes with two UFC Classic Championship Belts. UFC Pop! Jon Jones is a two-time UFC light heavyweight champion and comes with the new UFC Legacy Championship Belt.
If the positive drug test of Jon Jones that forced the UFC pay-per-view to move locations wasn’t one of the strangest things about UFC 232, it looks like they’ll be launching their first ever comic at this weekend’s event.
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, the UFC is launching Tales of UFC #1 exclusively for fans at UFC 232. The story brings the fighter that’s part of the UFC logo to life and is described as a tale of “action, adventure, and family.” The comic stars Mike and his daughter Maxine Mercury.
The comic is written by Dave Dwonch who has recently released such series as Infinite Seven, Cyrus Perkins and the Haunted Taxi Cab, and Double Jumpers with Action Lab. The comic features art by Jason Federhenn and color by Brad Simpson.
Dwonch landed the series through his agent at WME and pitched three projects to UFC. The comic has sci-fi elements but is “rooted in MMA.”
This comic is launching directly to UFC fans but it’s not the first comic to feature MMA. Heart, Joe Palooka, Cagehero, are examples of comic series featuring MMA. Former UFC fighter Rampage Jackson had a comic series published by Lion Forge. Also, UFC 181 featured a comics inspired poster done by Alex Sinclair, Howard Porter, and DC Comics. With the recent success of wrestling comics, we should be seeing a new wave of MMA inspired comics in the next year.
(via UFC)
At about fifteen minutes after 11pm ET Phil Brooks, better known as CM Punk, made his way to the octagon in UFC 203 for his mixed martial arts debut. Smiling, high-fiving fans, it was clear Punk was soaking in the experience and loving every minute of it, no matter the result to come.
Why are we covering this?
CM Punk, when he’s not training for his MMA fight, is also a writer for Marvel, currently writing Drax, as well as having written for Vertigo.
Quickly the match went sour for Punk as the two rushed to the center of the ring, Punk swung high which saw opponent Mickey Gall shoot low taking Punk down.
Gall controlled the fight as Punk showed his inexperience as Gall grappled with Punk on the grown eventually showing off his Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu skills and moving to Punk’s pack.
Punk showed heart though, fighting out of a choke, but eventually fell to a rear naked choke and tapped out at 2:14 in the first round.
Punk showed his sportsmanship congratulating Gall and living his dream out in front of millions.
Gall moves to 3-0, 2-0 inside the octagon. Punk’s future is unknown. CM Punk’s record is 0-1.
Check out Punk’s entrance into the arena.
Tonight current Marvel comics writer and former WWE Superstar CM Punk (aka Phil Brooks) heads into the Octagon for his Mixed Martial Arts debut in UFC 203. The fight taking place in Cleveland, Ohio sees Punk fighting Mickey Gall in his welterweight debut.
Punk has been writing Drax for Marvel and has written a Thor story and a story for Vertigo.
It’s unknown how he’ll do in his UFC debut and experts seem split with Mickey the betting favorite currently. Punk refused to shake the hand of Gall in the weigh in bringing some WWE drama to the UFC.
Is this the first comic book writer to fight in the UFC? We’ll follow up later with an update as to how Punk does.
One of the most popular mixed martial arts fighters in the world, Georges St-Pierre will attend Wizard World Philadelphia on Sunday, June 5, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The three-time former UFC Welterweight champion, known by many as the best “pound-for-pound” MMA athlete ever, will greet fans, sign autographs and pose for photo ops at his first Wizard World comic con appearance.
Already a 2nd dan Kyokushin karate black belt at 12, Georges dedicated himself to martial arts and training throughout his teen years. After seeing jiu-jitsu legend Royce Gracie fight in 1993 at UFC 1, “Rush” knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life and how he was going to reach those goals: he invested all his energy and all his time at becoming a better version of himself. When he wasn’t training or at school, Georges worked as a doorman in nightclubs, or hung off the back of a garbage truck, hauling in refuse. He discovered a simple truth: never stopping helps reach goals.
He grew as a person and as a fighter, adding fighting disciplines such as boxing, wrestling, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to his karate background and competed in his first amateur bout at age 16. He won that match, and continued his steady improvement. In 2006 he became the UFC Welterweight Champion. He lost the title in 2007 but subsequently regained it in front of his hometown fans of Montreal in 2008 and hasn’t lost a single title defense since then.
Along his career, St-Pierre, 34, accomplished numerous firsts and awards including: the all-time most consecutive welterweight title defenses, three-time consecutive Canadian Athlete of the Year Awards (’08– ’10) by Rogers Sportsnet, Fighter of the Year Awards (’09) by Sports Illustrated , World MMA Awards, MMAPayout, Inside MMA and MMAJunkie, the “Most Dangerous Man of the Year” by the Spike Guys Choice Awards (’10) and the MMA Fighter of the Year Award (’08) by Black Belt Magazine .
St-Pierre is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Way of the Fight. Released in 2013, the book shares the lessons he’s learned on the way to the top. Later that year, St-Pierre officially announced that he had decided to vacate the title and take some time off from MMA, taking a role in the 2014 blockbuster Captain America: Winter Soldier. He has not ruled out a return to the ring in the future. GSP is based in Montreal.
St-Pierre, who appeared in joins an amazing lineup of superstar entertainers scheduled to attend the pop culture extravaganza, including “Marvel” movie standouts Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston, David Duchovny (“The X-Files”), the Back to the Future trio of Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson and “The Walking Dead” standout Norman Reedus , with many other headliners.
Philadelphia show hours are Thursday, June 2, 3-8 p.m.; Friday, June 3, noon-7 p.m.; Saturday, June 4, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, June 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
DC Comics’ Howard Porter and Alex Sinclair have provided the art (and some promotion) for the upcoming UFC 181. The fight will be held December 6, 2014.
(via Bloody Elbow)
It was new comic book day yesterday… what’d everyone get?
Around the Blogs:
The Beat – CON WARS! Hobby Star Sues Wizard over “Toronto Comicon” – Doesn’t this seem like a bad “what if” comic book discussion?
Hispanically speaking News – New “Che” Graphic Novel Inspired by His Most Famous Portrait – This could be really good.
The Economic Times – The Archie empire witnessing an ugly wonership row between Nancy Silberkleit and Jonathan Goldwater – I want a comic adaptation!
Publishers Weekly – David Hyde To Leave DC Comics – Think I should apply?
Marvel – Fightin’ Fanboys: Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans – Can’t wait to watch this fight.
Around the Tubes Reviews:
CBR – Batman #8
ScienceFiction.com – Womanthology: Heroic
CSI Librarian – Graphic Novel Reviews: Daredevil vol. 1, Punisher vol. 1, and Spider-man & The Human Torch
Complex – Review: “Night Of The Owls” Begins The Biggest “Batman” Storyline In Years
Taking an idea from some viral videos featuring G.I. Joe, the UFC has put it’s own spin on them to promote this Friday’s fight between Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem at UFC 141.
Heart #1
Price: $2.99
Mixed Martial Arts and comics collide when an office drone named Oren ?Rooster? Redmond follows his older brother into the fiercely competitive world of professional MMA. With nothing left to lose, Oren hopes to find his purpose in fighting ? but does passion equal proficiency? Does Oren truly have the heart of a champion? Find out in the first chapter of this four-issue series.
