Ronda Rousey
Back in the day the only “Rowdy” in the fight scene was professional wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Of late though, there’s another rowdy one out there — UFC champ “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey.
Her use of the “Rowdy” nickname wasn’t a coincidence and Sarah wrote about why for Fightland.
To read the story go here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Rowdy Roddy Piper, the former pro wrestler best known for smashing a coconut in Jimmy Snuka’s face, has been dabbling in the world of rock ‘n’ roll lately with a new song called “Off The Top Rope.”
The autobiographical song was recorded with an all-star cast featuring members of the Sam Roberts Band, The Trews and The E Street Band.
Sarah talked to Piper about the new tune and his surprising musical career in a story for Huffington Post Music Canada.
You can read the story here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Music, Shameless Promotion
Pillow Fight League
Sarah will be making her formal return to fighting soon — pillow fighting, that is — and she’ll be documenting her comeback for Fightland.
To set those stories, up her most recent piece looked back at the soul-searching that went on when she decided to switch from the theatrical feather fighting of the Pillow Fight League to the rolling around in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. It involves a bachelor party, a big tip and a mail order gi.
Read the story at Fightland here.
Filed under Culture, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Rob Ford
We all knew around here Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was in trouble when even dog-loyal right wing newspapers like the Toronto Sun and National Post began — in very modest tones — suggesting that the confirmed crack smoker was probably not a good leader of North America’s fourth biggest city right now.
Through it all, though, there was one acquaintance of Sarah’s who maintained a steadfast if often self-aware and trollish support for the mayor — UFC fighter Claude Patrick.
As such, Sarah talked to Patrick about Ford for Fightland. To read the article go here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Politics, Shameless Promotion
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.
Filed under Shameless Promotion, Jock Stuff, Art
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