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Three Artists Critique MMA Fashion

MMA Shirts

MMA Shirts

Despite being fans of the sport, we here at Risky Fuel loathe one thing about mixed martial arts — the shirts.

The amount of times we’ve burst into laughter at the sight of some tough guy walking to the ring in a shirt with a glittering skull with a snake coming out of the eye sockets, wrapped in chains, surrounded by daggers, in the clawed palm of a dragon (or some similar approximation) has been staggering.

But rather than commit a series of insults about these shirts to print, instead Sarah found three genuine artists and got them to critique some outlandish outfits.

To read the story head over to Fightland by clicking here.

 

 

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Brittney Palmer, UFC Octagon Girl, Renaissance Woman

Brittney Palmer

Brittney Palmer

To the best we can tell, when the UFC linked to Sarah’s story about Octagon Girl Brittney Palmer’s paintings on their Facebook page it became the most “liked” story she has ever done.

And what’s to hate? It’s an interview with a woman who wears short shorts as a profession talking about how she makes paintings of Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger.

To read the story head over to Fightland by clicking here.

 

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The ‘Whoa-ness’ of Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reaves

Keanu Reaves

While Sarah was mostly on the music film beat at the Toronto International Film Festival this year she did get to make one interesting diversion — covering Keanu Reaves’ martial arts film Man of Tai Chi for the folks at Fightland.

Keanu wanted to make a classic fight film with this one, with all the tropes and traditions of past martial arts movies.

The jury’s still out on whether he did this brilliantly or stupidly, but you can read the review by clicking here.

 

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I Fought Marcia Brady

Marcia Brady and Sarah

Marcia Brady and Sarah

When the folks at Fightland discovered Sarah’s pseudo-fight past in the Pillow Fight League the logical conclusion was to get her to write about her adventures during her time in the league.

Her first recollection was about how she fought — or tried to fight — Maureen McCormick, best known as Marcia Brady, for an episode of Celebrity Fit Club.

To read the full story head over to Fightland by clicking here.

 

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Why MMA Should Welcome Transgender Fighters

Fallon Fox

Fallon Fox

One of the burbling controversies in the world of mixed martial arts is where transgender athletes should fight. If you’ve transitioned from man to woman, should you fight against men or fight against women?

Sarah’s trained with men, women and post-transitioned men and women. On the mats it doesn’t matter all that much, but don’t tell that to armchair dudebros.

She recently discussed what it’s like being a trans athlete with her friend Alaina for Vice’s Fightland site.

To read “Why MMA Should Be Welcoming Transgender Fighters” head over to Fightland by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

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