A Brief History On June 17, 2014, EA Sports released the video game EA Sports UFC for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Below is the complete roster for the hit video game EA Sports UFC as the roster originally appeared on Wikipedia prior to its removal by electronic book burners. It is reproduced here per the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License. Digging Deeper Heavyweight Fabrício WerdumCC Cain Velasquez Junior dos Santos Travis Browne Stipe MiocicDLC Mark Hunt Andrei ArlovskiDLC Antonio Silva Roy Nelson Alistair Overeem Frank Mir Pat Barry Mark ColemanDLC Brock LesnarDLC Minotauro Nogueira Light heavyweight Daniel CormierCC [HW] Anthony JohnsonDLC Alexander…
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A Brief History On October 3, 1995, in one of the most ridiculed jury findings in American history, a criminal jury found OJ Simpson not guilty of the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. Digging Deeper Simpson had been an American hero, born into a working family and raised in the projects of San Francisco after his parents separated in 1952. OJ developed rickets as a child, and wore leg braces until age 5. A star high school football player, Simpson first played at the Community College level before transferring to USC where he…
A Brief History On September 10, 1960, the final event of the Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, was the scene of the first Sub-Saharan African (Black) to win an Olympic Gold Medal. Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won the prestigious Olympic Marathon race (about 26.2 miles long) and won it in high fashion, that is, barefoot! Digging Deeper Only 126 lbs, this slim 5’11” runner was 28 years old when he ran his historic race, and for good measure he won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Marathon in the 1964 Olympics as well. The course of events that led…
A Brief History On June 28, 1997, shocked referee Mills Lane stopped the heavyweight championship fight between “Iron Mike” Tyson and Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield because Tyson had bit off a chunk of Holyfield’s ear. Digging Deeper Tyson is known to be erratic, with a checkered past that included juvenile offenses, jail time for rape (convicted 1992), another jail stint (assault, 1998), domestic violence and getting a tattoo over his face the day before a fight, causing the fight to be cancelled. In one fight he would not stop punching his opponent when the fight was over and ended…
A Brief History Legendary fighters Ken Shamrock (age 51) and Kimbo Slice (age 41) will battle inside the Bellator cage on Friday, June 19, 2015 in a historic match-up! Digging Deeper In one corner, we have Ken Shamrock, who, despite his age, looks like an action figure. A member of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Hall of Fame, Shamrock was the first ever UFC Superfight Champion. He also had the longest fight in UFC history at 36 minutes. In professional wrestling, he became the World Wrestling Federation’s Intercontinental Champion. Of course most of his accomplishments are from the 1990s and…
