UFC President Dana White says Couture to be on Cover of SI and Liddell ESPN Mag

[WrongSideWarrior]

By now, most people have seen or heard about last week’s entertaining episode of “Entourage” with Liddell. The genesis of it, however, is almost as good.

“I used to live with Mark Wahlberg,” White said.

It turns out that right around the time Wahlberg’s breakthrough film, “Boogie Nights” was coming out, the actor was beginning work on a movie about former Boston boxer Vinnie Curto. Robert DeNiro was lined up to play legendary trainer Angelo Dundee and Ted Sizemore was also cast in “The Vinnie Curto Story.” The project, however, fell through and was never made.

At the time, however, Wahlberg needed to learn to box. Enter White.

“I lived with him for 7-8 weeks,” White said. “I was training him to be a boxer. When I lived in Southie, we knew some of the same people. One day, I’m at home and the phone rings and the voice on the other end says, ’This is Mark Wahlberg.’ And we became friends.

“Chuck’s a huge ’Entourage’ fan and so I called Mark and I said, ’Chuck wants to do something with you guys.’ ”

Easy as that. ...

Speaking of Liddell, White said he will grace the cover of ESPN the Magazine soon. “When he was on the cover of Men’s Fitness, it was the biggest selling issue they ever had,” White said. ...

White said Randy Couture, who is set to fight Gabriel Gonzaga in August, will be on the cover of Sports Illustrated this summer

[Uncle B]

[Uncle B]

oh, wait...


my bad, my bad...

[gridironguy]

It remains to be seen if the UFC guys will get the SI cover and/or the ESPN Mag cover. No disrespect to them, it's just quite a leap right now is all.

[WrongSideWarrior]

Can you imagine that though.. MMA goes from the gutter to the Penthouse over night. I would be pretty damn impressed.

I buy every UFC and big boxing PPV and the UFC blows boxing away now IMO.

[WrongSideWarrior]

[Uncle B]

Originally Posted by WrongSideWarrior

By now, most people have seen or heard about last week’s entertaining episode of “Entourage” with Liddell.

that was pretty damned funny...getting Drama to get on his knees to beg...