Influence of UFC in mainstream media

[rangers99]

A lot of people talk about the raw numbers of the FOX deal, and lowered TUF viewership, etc, but a very large effect of the larger exposure of UFC has been beneficial to MMA as a whole.

I was just watching Django Unchained, and there was a fight scene in it which was completely shaped by MMA. Rather than some ludicrous boxing match, or raw power methods, there was clear MMA influence with ground N' pound, transitions, choke attempts, and a kimura finish.

Has anyone else noticed much, much more MMA in movies/shows last couple of years?

 

[Threetrees]

It was an Americana bro-ham
The near northsouth choke was awesome

 

[Mr. Hammer]

Yeah, I saw the movie too and I noticed how much that "mandingo fight" resembled an MMA ground battle. Minus the eye gouging and hammer of course.

 

[cyriljd]

today you cant even watch a western cowboy movie without a shitty mma fight scene pushed into the script.

 

[Laban]

today you cant even watch a western cowboy movie without a shitty mma fight scene pushed into the script.

This.

 

[PsychedelicApe]

Hell yeah! Ive even been asked this before: "Do you do UFC?"

 

[dan halen]

Inception had a scene where that guy Joseph Gordon Levitt choked a guy out with a modified arm-triangle from mount in the hallway.

Hard to do in that low-gravity situation without the help of the ground, though.

 

[Unbreakabull]

Isn't this the same guy who had Hitler shot in the face at close range with a tommy gun? I'm surprised Don Frye wasn't in the movie wearing his colored speedos and wrestling shoes for the final showdown with Django

 

[Blackbelch**]

Sweet! More reason for me to go Django Unchained. But I still haven't seen The Hobbit yet either. Lol

 

[Unbreakabull]

Inception Joseph Gordon Levitt choked a guy out with a modified arm-triangle from mount in the hallway.

Hard to do in that low-gravity situation without the help of the ground, though.

It was a dream - how difficult could it be to pull off a move like that... in a fucking dream?

 

[MrPuppet]

Seen a couple lil things in movies. Rampage slam in fast and furious and a lil Mma in the first season of supernatural

 

[SinisterSpider]

Inception had a scene where that guy Joseph Gordon Levitt choked a guy out with a modified arm-triangle from mount in the hallway.

Hard to do in that low-gravity situation without the help of the ground, though.

best post.

I love me some UFC

 

[SinisterSpider]

there were a bunch of MMA scenes in never back down too

 

[DVN**]

Mma fight scenes dont look cool in movies. Kung fu is the shit for movies.

If they want to make "realistic" fight scenes, the fights would be shorter and more brawling.

 

[Unbreakabull]

Interviews with fighters on talk shows usually go better than boxing interviews do. At least most of these guys went to college - When you hear Jones and then listen to a top boxer, hahaha, Jones sounds like a scientist standing next to that guy

 

[justblaze717]

Mel Gibson was triangling fools in 80s movies so guess again.

 

[dan halen]

Mel Gibson was triangling fools in 80s movies so guess again.

This is true. Some of the Gracies were actually consultants on the first Lethal Weapon. I can't remember exactly which ones though.

 

[Vividsbricks23]

When I saw this at the time, I was not sure what he was doing, but I thought it was so sick, then several years later Royce was pulling this off in real life.

 

[bowened]

Thank god for the ufc's influence on mainstream media. Without we wouldn't have masterpieces like Never Back Down or Never Back Down 2.

 

[CorkscrewPunch]

That was choreographed by Jordan Perry.

2012 Fight Coordinator of the Year.