Tag Archives: mma

Really Rucking Funny: Best Manlove Video of 2011 (SFW)

This clip by Irish comedy outfit Dead Cat Bounce called ‘Rugby’ has to be my favourite video of 2011. Even if it strongly suggests that, in Ireland at least, my work here is done and it’s well past time to retire to the touch-lines. There’s much to admire here: the lightness of touch, the hilarious …

December 21, 2011 – 2:06 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, Rugby, sport | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Why ‘Warrior’ Isn’t That Kind of Girl

Middlesbrough, Teeside, one of the last steel-making towns in the UK or in fact one of the last places in the UK where they still make anything, is probably the right place to go and see, as I did last week, Warrior, the recently-released, much-hyped MMA Rocky remake set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warrior is essentially …

October 5, 2011 – 2:57 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, film, popular culture | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (7)

Fight Club: How Gay is MMA?

Mark Simpson attends an epic UFC event and finds himself turned on to the charms of ‘gay porn for straight men’ (Originally appeared in Out magazine, June 2008) IMAGINE THE SPACE SHUTTLE taking off with a really fat customized exhaust pipe. Or the Visigoths sacking Ancient Rome with kicking bass tubes fitted to their 4-by-4s. Or …

November 1, 2009 – 11:42 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, bisexuality, commentary, journalism, masculinity, sporno, sport | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (20)