Friday, September 4 4:00 pm PT: I have long, long wanted Mr. Rogers to snap. I will settle for Jason David Frank, the actor who essayed the layered role of “Green Ranger” in Saban’s acid-trip “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers” phenomenon of the 1990s.
MMAWeekly’s Damon Martin quoted Frank, now 35, as training with Melvin Guillard and incorporating wrestling and jiu-jitsu into a base of a style called “Tose Kune Do.” That sounds suspiciously like something that would scroll across the screen during a 1994 UFC broadcast, followed shortly by a man in parachute pants bleeding from his eyes, ears, and mouth. But all right.
Frank’s full contact history is a little vague: his website mentions ownership of a “prestigious” title from something called “Ruff Man” in Indiana; he has a Muay Thai fight on YouTube that doesn’t last long enough to get much sense of his abilities. Date and location of his MMA debut are still undecided. May the best Zord win.
Friday, September 4 12:00 am PT: You loved him as “Aryan #1” in 2007’s “The Death and Life of Bobby Z” and as “Man in Coma” in the Ray Mercer documentary: now see Tim Sylvia as a serial killer.
First reported by Fighters.com and confirmed by Sylvia’s manager Monte Cox, Sylvia is performing stand-in duties for Michael Myers in “Halloween 2.”
Dan Hardy felt an added sting watching Dan Henderson knock out countryman Mike Bisping at UFC 100 on July 11 in Las Vegas, and not because he was sitting with Bisping’s parents at the time.
“I think one of the first things I thought as soon I saw him get knocked out, was, ‘Oh dear, everyone’s going to be back down on the U.K. again,” said Hardy.
Hardy noted U.S. fans apply a different mentality to accessing U.K. fighters.
“I think all the British fighters will probably agree with me when I say I think that we feel we’re up against it as far as fan support goes,” he said. “I think people expect less of us because we’re from the U.K., because they assume we don’t have the right kind of training and coaching in the U.K., which is why I spend so much time (in the U.S.).”
