New MMA Columnist

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

New MMA Columnist

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Welcome David, glad to finally have some other MMAers here. Glad to have you on board and looking forward to your first column!!

Enjoy the forum!!

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Welcome David. Good luck with the column and I hope you will indulge yourself in all aspects of the forum.

Symphony Of Destruction · Metal Mod

Welcome, I hope you like Van Halen :D

DoctorOfDesire · 500 Club Member

Hi David, welcome aboard. Hope you have fun! smile

Lava · A List Star

Hopefully you'll be more regular than the last guy. But welcome anyway.

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

Not that you guys care, but here are my plans for upcoming columns:

ASAP: UFC 78 Preview
Late November: 78 Review, Preview of WEC 31
Early Dec: Highlighting orgs other than UFC
Late Dec: UFC 79 Preview
Early Jan: 2008 Preview
Mid Jan: UFC 80 Preview
Late Jan: UFC 81 Preview

So that's 7 columns within 3 months. Is that regular enough for you guys??

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Thats what we like to see. Should be good. Hopefully we can get some more MMA fans down here to post. Know any you could get to join?

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

Trust me, I'm trying. I hope that we can at least get some interest in my column, then we'll try to build forum contributions from there. I'm excited about the future, and I think we can grow this thing fast.

NymVette · Movie Producer

hi welcome, err silly question but what is MMA?

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

MMA, or Mixed Martial Arts, is a combat sport that involves various fighting techniques, including, striking and grappling. Some common forms of martial arts used are Western boxing, various forms of jiu-jitsu (Brazillian or Japanese), judo, sambo, karate, and many, many more. Here's what wikipedia says about MMA:

"Modern mixed martial arts tournaments as a popular phenomenon emerged in 1993 with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, based on the concept of pitting different fighting styles against each other in competition with minimal rules in place, in an attempt to determine which system would be more effective in a real, unregulated combat situation. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, mixed martial arts events implemented additional rules for the safety of the athletes and to promote acceptance of the sport, while maintaining as much of the original no-holds-barred concept as possible. Since these changes, the sport has grown rapidly, to the point of setting pay-per-view records."

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

mrsmiley · On The Casting Couch

Hey what's up everyone!

I figured I would introduce myself here as well,since I will be writing along side McKinney with my own MMA column as well.i will have a banner up soon and the first column should be up by the end of the week.Hope to hear from you guys!

Man In Black · Anime Mod

mrsmiley wrote:
i will have a banner up soon

A little presumptuous there aren't we, dear boy?

Care to tell us a bit more about yourself and how your column will differ from McKinney's?

Welcome by the way.

mrsmiley · On The Casting Couch

LOL.Well here's hoping anyway.
Basicly I was brought on to add a different perspective to MMA coverage on this forum.Were McKinney will be doing more play by play coverage of different upcoming MMA events,mine will focus more on things such as top ten list,fighters bios,MMA history,etc.I think it will be very interesting writing along side him and seeing what we both bring to the table in terms of coverage.Where he might write a column with full coverage for UFC 79,I might be writing something along the lines of: "The Couture/White debate rages on."

About myself?

Well i'm 22 and have been watching MMA since UFC 1.I belive I was in the 3rd grade at the time.I was in a full time band for about year until i left just a few months ago so I could get back into the gym and for other reasons.The bands website is swurvrocks.com if anyone wants to check it out.I'm no longer with them,but incase you want to see what their like.In my spar time I enjoy playing laser tag (I have a team record of 40-6) and reading.I like the website and I see it becoming just as big as a place like killermoviescommunity.
I'm going to check out more of the forums and see what everyone is talking about very soon.

NymVette · Movie Producer

Hello Mrsmiley, welcome to the forum.

Totoro101 · Movie Executive Producer

Sorry to say late but welcome to the forums David and MrSmiley, nice to have you on board,will have to read your MMA work as id like to try get into it more in the future ^^.